Indiana Pacers: The good, bad and ugly from the 2021 NBA Preseason

With the 2021 NBA preseason now out of the way, the Indiana Pacers should be ready to go heading into the regular season. While the team finished the preliminaries with a middling 2-2 win-loss card, the Blue and Gold are now on the finishing stages of gearing up, hopefully setting the stage for a comeback campaign in the upcoming season.

As the team goes through a pivotal adjustment once again, this time incorporating the team’s newcomers and learning under a new coach in Rick Carlisle, the process will be filled with inevitable ups-and-downs. Their preseason campaign should be a positive step towards feeding off each other’s growth and waging a more competitive bid in the regular season.

The 2021 preseason has been rocky for the Pacers, largely a result of the team succumbing to early injuries, which subsequently caused lineup instability right from the get-go. As Indy failed to employ their full set of weapons to aptly mix and match effective lineups, they couldn’t maximize the experimental course of preseason action, though team chemistry seems a lot stronger this time around.

Thus, with all things considered, here are the good, bad and ugly for the Indiana Pacers in the 2021 NBA preseason.