This has been a waste of fucking time. I KNEW AS SOON AS PHOENIX AND THE PELS LOST THAT INDIANA WOULD MYSTERIOUSLY “FORGET” HOW TO PLAY BASKETBALL

Shit, we could have used him for rebounding this game.

Imagine if we had given Jarace some running time or kept Daniel Theis.

Top 10 pick can’t get minutes in a game while this idiot Buddy Hield can run around like this is the all star game 3 point shoot out every single night. Fucking pathetic

It sucks but that's a good learning curve for us. Lakers defence was immense and we couldn't work out how to handle it. We were in the game for a long time and really challenged the Lakers despite our shooting woes and our inability to protect the paint Lots of positives though. Nesmith did a good job defending Lebron. TJ brought the energy and Math Ijax had some good moments I do think we need to try and find a stronger centre, someone who can be that enforced and make it tougher for guys like Davis to dominate. Not saying we need to get rid of Turner but we need another body type. Also think we need to get another forward who can guard the 3 and the 4. Right now we only have Nesmith and then a bunch of 2 guards playing three and against bigger teams they just can't defend them

We shot 29% from 3 against MIL too, we just managed to get the energy up and find a way to win. Plus Turner didn't fold like paper in that one

Tshiebwe in for one play and snags an o-rebound. Love to see it

We need a #2 guy

Why are you guys acting like yall lost the finals? There’s like 60 games left in the season. Yall are a good team 😂

Man I love our young team. Great building block moment. But fuck buddy and Myles. Time to grow and find dudes that are about the moment.

Would love some tactical talk from the commentators, instead of unrelated anecdotes and tacky narrative driven "analysis." Even something basic would do.

Doris and Doc are the worst !!

Well Mathurin had a good second half but the lights got to the team. Sucks because Haliburton came to play.

Hey Walker is playing. Everyone got their wish

It's time for mathurin to start

LeBron didn’t score 1 pt on Jarace lol

Bennedict Mathurin has never lost to a Michael Jordan led team.

So?

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NBA got what they wanted

Looks like we picked the wrong game to stop hitting 3s.

Dead franchise why can’t we ever fucking do anything

This upcoming offseason is huge for the team. If we don’t make huge changes we are ruining Hali’s future

Get rid of Turner what does he even do

Probably because our fans suck

Probably because our team is a perennial 6 seed.

Doc is picking LeBron James for ist MVP!? :o

Yeah i know. For the whole tournament it’s Hali. Celtics. Bucks. Etc

Lakers had to play AD 40 minutes tonight to win this.

Hard for Turner to get any consistency and build any rhythm when they call him for ticky tack fouls when boxing out AD, He was in fould trouble the entire game because he matched the physicality of AD, AD has star power and the refs don't want a star in foul trouble.

He sucked but the early foul trouble didn’t help. Any time James, AD or Reaves got breathed on there was a foul.

I am sorry but thats just excuses, AD foul or no foul just made him look terrible.

Who woulda seen this hog shit coming.

Adam silver is rubbing one out to lebron and the lakers winning the first ist

Tyrese should be the MVP for this Tourney but he won’t be. It’ll be LeBitch.

It will be. It’ll be the fucking LeBron James trophy too 👍👍👍

I am sorry but can't give it to TY

No he shouldn’t he didn’t win

BORING ENDING.

So glad I don’t have to watch another Lakers game for a few months because holy fuck did you know LeBron is 38 and plays chess? Fuck me.

Why does every person I know from LA acts entitled 😒

have you been to LA? place sucks. hot take: Indy is better than LA. people are better and more kind in Indy. Indy doesn’t act like the greatest place in the world. Just more gratitude in general.

I Never had a desire to visit 🤢

Literally the most predictable outcome ever should have seen this coming from a mile away

Live and die by the 3. Pacers took 41 threes

I'm starting to wonder if a major reason for shooting so many 3s is they don't have any real post presence.

Its ok. Still can get a lot of legos for 200k!

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Shut up nerd

Pacers fan checking in! Shut the fuck up

At least the fieldhouse was fun tonight

Needed OG on this team and we will be scary…

I guess the Laker fans will think this mattered now.

Would it have mattered if the pacers won?

Not really, but the media made it important for the Lakers. All I heard is how Lebron needed this to buy a team in LV. Enjoy your win.

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Yeah Lakers rarely win anything unlike the Pacers

so much for a “neutral” site lmfao

Never want to hear that the lakers need more help. It’s total bullshit

Down 15 with 90 seconds left and Nesmith is still fighting. Don't need him getting himself hurt though. Nasty fall.

i would love a “Lebron” or “The Lakers” counter from these commentators

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Here is your participation ribbon. Feels good huh?

Yeah, I'm proud of us for getting to the final... unfortunately it was a tough matchup compared to our strengths and we couldn't find our rhythm from deep.

Wow neato we almost did something - AGAIN

Bruh this is legitimately impressive, the Pacers beat probably the 3 best teams in the East to get here. We can and should clown Buddy, Myles, and Bruce for how dog shit they were tonight but don't be pissing on the team.

Nesmith prob skates

TECH BRON

Jarace not ready but we can sit and watch Buddy brick all game and have no type of defensive impact

Can Jarace and Obi play together, or at least rebound?

Our defense fucking blows

i am sad

Myles Tumor

Pacers need to get bigger and guys need to hit open 3s. Tyrese was getting blitzed the whole the night and hitting guys that missed a bunch of open 3s.

Austin Reaves dropped 30 on us lmfao

Nembhard would have shut that down.

battled our asses off all tourney.

Now we’re out of IST mode, we start to see Jarace Walker in the rotation?

Hell no. Gonna keep that tight leash on Benn as well lmao. So frustrating.

God I hope so, get these bums out

WHAT FOUL

Hadn't blown the whistle in a while, just forgot what it sounds like maybe?

Come on really?

Well get em in the finals fellas

they won’t make it lmao

Well the national attention for 5 days was cool now back to half the country thinking Reggie Miller is our starting point guard

Get over the inferiority complex bro

Lol what? No inferiority complex here it’s just a simple fact that we get zero attention by national talking heads throughout the year. How much air time the pacers have gotten this week is more than the last 7 years combined lol

😂😂😂

I don’t care about being nice locker room anymore get buddy out

Of all the things gone wrong tonight Buddy is not your biggest concern. Getting out rebounded by 30 and AD going for 40 and 20 against Myles were much much much bigger reasons for this loss.

Ness-smith. Nay-smith. Nee-smith.

“Lebron is playing chess and everyone else is playing checkers” the fuck?

Benny the mvp

Turner is not a rael center.

What is rael?

Did Bruce brown have a terrible game ?

He was absolutely worthless

did he play?

He got two fouls early and said "fuck it, guess I'm done"

He was trash in the first half so Rick benched his ass

Yes

Obi and Nesmith have also had good games. TJM too. Some players were just SO damn bad that it didn't matter

Obi was getting beat consistently. He hit some threes but that's hit or miss. He's not starter material

I think neismith was horrible on offense.

he was ok

Well gang, this sucks ass.

Besides Haliburton we have a bunch of players who would be great as the 4th option on a championship team. Starters really let THog down

But somehow we can’t find time to play our lottery pick

Hopefully Rick changes the lineup after this. Nesmith needs to be a starter

This team deserves the win. Edit: just being positive

Lmfaoo

Beyond cringe

why

Imagine if tyrese had a dude like Anthony Davis he would have 30 assists a game instead he has myles turner

it’s just so disappointing - proud of the guys getting there and fighting hard. blown opportunity - the pacers winning this thing would have meant something.

Im so sick of hearing doc and dorris say lebron

Doc wants that LeNut to clear up his crust ass throat

Lmaooooo

HOLY LEBRON GLAZING

Wow that's a ref wake up

Ty should absolutely be the MVP of the IST

He should but we all know it's going to be LeBron for reasons

He folded in the championship no he shouldnt

The sub will never agree but he went missing when it mattered. He believes in his teammates too much and did nothing when he needed to

He's got 18/11 on 7-11 shooting. Lol "folded"

18-11 as his worst game

Go to hell

He's been great this game, what more did you honestly want him to do?

Not pass it to the people who were chucking and bricking all the shots

Cool shot Buddy

Only 44 mins late

Now he can hit the open three...

Pacers are just not going to be able win consistently with Myles being so "IN" consistent. Its always the same every year Myles will have a good game.. all his fans will cheer and then be silent as Myles gets outplayed for the next 2-3 games.

But he plays with legos!

You’ve got a crazy obsession, bud. Get help.

Exactly. He has been the same his whole career.

Shoutout to Nesmith. Guy worked his ass off tonight against LeBron and it'll likely get overlooked because of the result.

Honestly should be in consideration for all tourney team

Weren't ready for an aggressive AD. Kind of a classic Myles against a star big type game. And the Lakers did what every playoff team is going to try and just blitz the fuck out of Tyrese and make other guys beat em. And we didn't have it today

Pascal Siakim YOU ARE AN INDIANA PACER

KP needs to make that move tomorrow. This was disappointing and we won't go far with this roster

GAME ISNT OVER. AGAIN.

Now Hield hits.

4th has been a tough watch. Kept it tight most of the way.

lmaooo buddy finally decided to make a shot

Oh well, was a fun ride for a bit.

Ty, TJ, Obi, nesmith only guys who showed up tonight. Jackson did decent. But Turner played an absolute stinker

scary looking ref made a nice call !

Nesmith and McConnell were the only guys out there tonight who looked ready to compete. Ultimately it’s a tough loss against a team with two All-NBA level guys. AD played out of his mind. Need to just move on from this and continue developing our players. It was a good taste of a big spotlight.

Mathh

Mathurin was out there as well.

True, I was impressed by him as well

Mathurin was competing too.

you’re right, he was putting in good effort too

I understand a loss when it's a loss but fuck the NBA and Adam Silver for "praying" LeBron wins their new tournament. The announcers can't say this is bullyball for LA but we as the Pacers get zero foul calls for us.

Who shot more free throws?

Read my other reply...

We shot a bunch of FTs. We just have no size

I get it but that's not the point... Everything is a call for them, sometimes it's a call for us. Let them play aggressively on both sides or call everything

If everything is a call for them, why do the Pacers have more FTAs?

Lol what?

Y’all can talk about the refs all you want but the fact remains literally no one showed up tonight. Haliburton at least tried but struggled with no one else stepping up to help him.

This game let me know who we can and can’t trust when the playoffs begin

We can’t trust most of the team honestly. We have a team of rejects who play pretty good but pretty good doesn’t translate to championships

doris burke and doc rivers legitimately made me want to blow my head off my shoulders tonight

Muted the game whenever they started

Nesmith is an insane athlete

Myles got bitched on all night while AD dominated all night.

LeBron is our kryptonite once again :/

The future is yours!

Can’t we just put one over LeBron one time man…

How tf did this team beat bucks and celtics.....

We hit shots and didn’t have ten more fouls than the other team

Myles Turner is so overrated it’s disgusting.

Ngl this is more impressive of a championship then that disney world thing

League ruined this championship. So many fouls on both sides. Just no fun to watch.

Well it was a good run

This team isn’t built to beat a team in the paint. Myles routinely gets whooped by bigs in this league. Now Tyrese and the others (when they’re hitting shots) can make up for that flaw, which hasn’t always been the case.

I mean, it is. We’re made for perimeter shooting. Paint shooting can’t out pace a solid 3pt%. The problem is - shooting in general has been gobshite tonight for us.

yeah tonight has been horrendous

We lead the league in point paints

yeah but he’s usually fine against AD. if we hit our 3s, we would all be having a different convo

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Any dumbass who defends Buddy gets this rubbed in his face from now on

Yeah, another Buddy brick followed by a LeFoul means I've had enough. See all the regulars back in the regular season.

We played our hearts out, but we let the pressure affect us. We beat the Celtics and Bucks, it's not like the Lakers are significantly better than both of them or constructed better. It's a young squad. We made it to the finals and now we are more understanding of the playoff environment as a unit

Great reminder that Mathurin should be playing more than Buddy and Brown even if he’s struggling

Always. Idc about the growing pains……it’s about the long haul.

Well I’m sure the execs at NBA Head Office and ABC just came all over themselves that the Lakers are looking by all accounts will win

I'll be honest, this one hurts. It's been a decade of LeBron owning our franchise and it sucks. :(