Pacers are Deep and Shoot and Space and Pace

    There is a guy at work that I am friends with, and we talk some NBA. Also baseball, particularly the Nationals.

    I told him that the Pacers are looking good. They have a lot of guys who shoot well, run well, hustle well, and many of them off the bench. Thier size is generally good enough.

    Tyrese Halliburton is special. Long, quick, great touch, great handles, makes passes to good shooters, including the big men Miles Turner and Obi Toppin. Jalen Smith and Ian Jackson come off the bench to give some size and energy, but it is the smaller pieces that give this team some moxy. Bruce Brown, who came from the championship Nuggets, Buddy Hield, a shooter and athlete, Benedict Mathurin, Nembhard and Nesmith, plus plucky T.J. McConnell. They can run some teams off the floor, scoring into the 130s and 140s. With a little defense these players are super tough.

    They came up one short in the newly founded In Season tourney, to Lebron and the Lakers, but they are confident and good.

I look forward to seeing how they do the rest of the season.

Go Pacers! My buddy London reached out to me about them; this is a bonus. Hold on, long time Pacer fans!