Player grades for each Pacers player at the halfway point
By William Furr
Incomplete grade
This section is reserved for guys who haven’t gotten enough playing time with the Indiana Pacers to receive a grade.
T.J. Leaf
TJ Leaf has only played 170 minutes this season, and the majority of them have been in garbage time, so it’s difficult to make a true assessment here. He put up a fairly promising preseason before injuring his ankle in game 1 and didn’t crack the rotation again until the calendar had flipped over to 2019.
T.J.’s recent stretch has been promising, though. In the 3 games Leaf has been in the rotation this month, he’s shot 10-13 from the field and hit the glass reasonably well in limited minutes. Despite all the boarding calls from impatient fans (and impatient 8 points 9 seconds writers!), the ship hasn’t sailed on Leaf just yet. Give this man some minutes – 10 a night would be plenty – and let’s see what he can do.
Alize Johnson
Alize Johnson has been putting up gaudy stat lines for the Fort Wayne Mad Ants this year. But there aren’t any openings in the Indiana Pacers rotation for him to get playing time. He has 3 points and an impressive 7 rebounds in 21 minutes of playing time with the pros this year.
Ike Anigbogu
Ike Anigbogu has not played hardly at all for the Indiana Pacers this season. His 6 total minutes are less than any of the two-way contract guys. He’s figuring some stuff out in Fort Wayne, but we haven’t seen enough of him at all to give him a grade.
Edmond Sumner
Edmond Sumner surprised us all by coming out of the gates with an impressive preseason. If Aaron Holiday didn’t have a ridiculous surge of his own, that preseason play might have been enough for Sumner to have gotten minutes when Victor Oladipo was injured. Instead, we have only seen him for a total of 34 minutes, not enough for a grade. He has amassed 5 points on 25% shooting in his playing time.
Davon Reed
Davon Reed has only nabbed 10 minutes of playing time all season, and he hasn’t put up a single counting stat in any of them. He has shown that he has some skills at various points in time, but he hasn’t done anything noticeable enough to get a grade for the season.
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What a first half of the season for the Indiana Pacers. Not many guys were truly worse than we thought they would be, which is great for a team with multiple veterans. They should be able to keep it up throughout the second half of the year.