The Indiana Pacers aren’t a good team in most NBA experts eyes, but they are mildly surprised with the team’s 3-3 start.
We all know that reality will hit the Indiana Pacers at some point.
We love Victor Oladipo knocking down game-winners and playing like an All-Star. We love seeing Domas Sabonis being perfect. We love seeing Darren Collison play the best basketball of his career over these first six games — and 25th in the NBA in plus-minus.
But it can’t last, can it?
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Probably not, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun. The Pacers are supposedly rebuilding, but right now Oladipo and Sabonis think they can build Rome in a day. Al Jefferson isn’t dead weight and Joe Young made a non-garbage time basket. T.J. Leaf’s defense is still bad but he looks settled in scoring in the NBA.
And this is all without Myles Turner of course.
It is way too early to buy your playoff tickets yet, you know Kevin Pritchard is feeling rather smug right now as the two players he traded Paul George for are leading the team in Turner’s absence. There will always be questions about whether Indiana made the right choices with that trade. But at least for now, the Pacers made sure that isn’t the leading narrative.
Instead of re-litigating the trade night-in-and-night-out, Indiana is having fun.
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The Pacers face the Sacramento Kings tonight before going on a three-game road trip. They’ll face the Cleveland Cavaliers on Wednesday, the Philadelphia 76ers on Friday, and the New York Knicks on Sunday.