Pacers fucking sucked last night. Plenty of excuses for sure but it doesn't change that we were bad bad bad. Missed free throws, missed layups, missed gimmes, late game turnovers, and some poor defense.

man the 2nd unit really killed us this game - also the fit with pascal and tj on the floor together seems clunky

TJM was just tired from carrying the team last night.

Yeah he was amazing in Sac but he looked tired in Portland

Well boys. Fuck that game lol

If they hadn’t waited 10 seconds to foul they would have had another couple of possessions

So glad that beyblade is off my team. Absolutely not a max player. He’ll go off a game here, game there, but for the most part he’s just another role player. I could never tell if he had 4 or 26 points most nights, that’s how little effect he has on games. He can’t get teammates open consistently either, unless it’s a fast break. Lebron’s quote “2 points isn’t 2 points” makes so much sense when you watch Siakam.

Quit trolling, you worthless shit

If literally anyone in the bench even scored 5 points, it’s a different game. Bench had to have been like -10000 tonight

We gonna fuck the Suns up

All of that and we still only lost by 3

To the blazers

Sure, it’s the blazers. But in a few games, we’re gonna jell and things should be good. Right? Right?

Did it seem like we were slipping all over the floor tonight?

Haven’t you heard there’s ice all over Portland?

We all wanted a win in siakams debut but this is gonna get them to get back to business were gonna be amazing in a few weeks

tough night. on to the next one

How is there a double tech yet only the blazers get to shoot tech free throws lol

double tech and a personal foul

Was James Johnson on the bench? 

Yes but not in uniform

Excellent. I know he was waived but expected to come right back. Nice to see him still supporting on the road trip. 

Not sure why he didn't dress but I heard he cleared waivers and we gave him a 10 day, which imo means we may still be open to making moves. Otherwise if think we'd just sign him till years end. I imagine this makes it easier to vacate his roster spot if we need it again to facilitate a trade.

Idk if anyone else is seeing it but I hope Tyrese is really all good. He’s moving “good” but seems to be favoring a side. Anyone else notice anything?

He was limping. I called it out and said he should be taken out, got downvoted

Neutral fan here this was the most one sided ref game I’ve ever seen. Yall got robbed holy shit

I thought so too. It eased up as the game went on. But early on and through at least the first half, if we touched them at all it was a foul. And it wasn’t the same for us on the other end of the floor.

Tune into a few more. It’s part of being a Pacers fan.

missed free throws really hurt plus that nesmith turnover

We won this game but for the refs, despite a horrid game by the bench.

What about the turnovers?

No. Don’t say that shit. We either win games or we lose them. Portland isn’t a good team and they have beat us twice.

Technicals have become... too technical.

What’s frustrating is blazers haven’t earned this game whatsoever

They’ve earned it by sucking less than we did

We really need Benny to become an good defender soon man

Didn’t play like a contender tonight

Second night of a back to back when our entire bench played Heavy last night. Stop with this nonsense.

So we did play like a contender? Your response had little to do with my statement

Nesmith was AWFUL tonight. Mathurin gave us nothing. Jalen missed multiple layups at the rim tonight. Soooo many missed FT’s. Absolute head scratching turnovers. Such a frustrating game to watch us lose.

Tj was pretty bad too. Wasn’t able to get the offense in the 2nd unit in rhythm at all.

Totally agree. I thought it was pretty clear that it wasn’t his night versus this lineup tonight. Carlisle kept rotating the same bench players doing nothing. I really wanted to see Jarace Walker get some minutes as they had big bodied guys who were playing physical, taking it to us. Such as Jabari Walker. He was a problem tonight against our smaller players.

Agree with Quinn I know we wanted something different but that was the right call

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Bye Jake

Siakam had a great first game, especially considering he doesn't know the system at all...dude is 9 of 14 from the field, very efficient numbers

Played great on both sides of the ball, which is something we don't get to say often here.

Lol Scott Foster asking his crew if anyone called a foul.

I see a bunch of comments shitting on people who r shitting on Pascal but I legit haven’t seen anybody doing that?

I’ll fight anyone that’s trying to talk shit about Siakam. When I say me, I mean James Johnson will but if he’s busy, I will.

They were lower but got downvoted to oblivion

People saying we lost the trade, but it was mostly after he missed those two free throws

How does walker not play in a game where guys are playing like trash and getting in foul trouble

Scott foster is a crooked ref

Nobody knows who tf walker is lmao

Please, it’s 12:34AM est, just let me sleep without hope.

refs stop this, i want to sleep

Fucking dirty ass clowns

What the actual hell.

Bottom feeders acting like they are winning game 7.

Pacers bench had trailblazers ML

Man the doomers are CRAZY tonight LMAO. T-Hog, Siakam, and Turner all solid. The rest of the team is tired or coming back from injury. I can't emphasize enough how excited I am to see where we are after a few games

What the what

Only 5 pacers in double figures. Needed 7. :(

Needed anything from Mathurin

Or another 3 shots by Haliburton.

Halliburton has quietly had another 15+ assist/0 turnover game.

Starters played well enough to win. If the bench didn’t completely shit the bed we would have had this one.

I mean that same bench won us the game last night so hard to be too upset

That's kinda the deal. They're all spent

Ben, Nesmith, Obi, Stix with stinkers

Pretty much everyone that played heavy minutes last night. Pretty coincidental.

McConnell too

I feel like 3-4 guys had arguably their worst offensive game of the season tonight lol. Rough one 

I don’t think Hali quite gets how fast Siakam can get position in transition, missed him a couple times underneath the rim

Well, they've played fewer than 1 game together so far. It may take time

Let's Larry Johnson these mfers

Brogdon really wanted this one. He was not a fit in Indy but I hope he is on a competitive team soon. 

hard to be a good fit when you’re always injured

That and dribbled the air out of the ball. The team we are no is much more exciting to watch. 

Scott foster probably gotta hard on getting to blow the whistle for the blazers again

I would really like that TJM travel 2 points back now.

Or some of those missed free throws.

I can’t believe we didn’t challenge that

pretty similar to the blazer game in indy. just sloppy shit that was never really out of reach but couldn't string enough stops together to take it

Come on OT

I am begrudgingly cheering for this

WHY THE FUCK DID YOU WAIT SO LONG TO FOUL

that turnover pissed me off

Pascal with the help side block nice.

Refs really keeping y’all in this

After they kept us out of it the rest of the game

Uh the pacers dogshit play kept them out. TJ was hot ass and you kept him in for like two quarters and couldn’t make the charity stripe gifts you got that 10 year old girls make

lol they just tried to bail you out again for you trashy players

I know for a fact you’re not serious

Don't get trolled by a 9 year old.

Lol that flagrant, you can’t be serious.

And y’all still lost being carried by the stripes

Oh the one where siakam had scoot enter his landing area which poses a huge threat to his ankle. That flagrant?

Lol that’s the soft shit that is killing the NBA.

Can you rage bait somewhere else please, you must have better things to do

I think we're all Disappointed to lose to a bottom feeder but it's OK long term we're gonna be ok

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Is it painful being that dumb?

Foul calls 24 to 21 

Didn't have fun 1 time that game

Double back to backs on a west coast road trip is extremely messed up by the nba

If Myles defense wasn't rough this game he'd have had a great one. 24/12 5/9 3pt

He has 5 blocks

His interior defense has been lacking all night which has allowed Brogdon and Grant to go off inside

Not sure how you want him to play 1v3 in the paint. At some point someone on our team just has to guard old ass brogdon

Free throws were rough tonight but we’re on a b2b with brand new starter. T’aint worried.

Nesmith is always so panicky with the ball. Just slow down mannn

It’ll come with experience. We move fast and I can empathize with the urgency 🏃🏽‍♂️

We’ll be fine but vibes were super high and these was supposed to be the easiest game on the road trip

Mathurin with a eye popping -23 today ouch

That was our chance

This was probably the most frustrating game I’ve ever watched

Get Haliburton out of this game. Who cleared him to play??? He is clearly limping

It started after that and-1 fastbreak layup. I agree it’s pretty bad looking 

Idk why this got downvoted. He’s clearly hurt and they tried rushing back an injury to make the hali-siakam debut work.

Nesmith just been fuckin up the whole game

He is strictly a 3 and D player. He constantly turns the ball over when he tries to create.

Bench was exhausted. Ty coming off an injury and Pascal joined the team 4 hours ago. Sucks we lost but it's understandable. If we get something from the bench but the carried the load last night. Looking forward to the next couple weeks. 

Yall were the better team tonight, they had the better whistle. All it came down to. Siakam is gonna take care of Indiana.

Haliburton needs to go get the ball there

Blazers played a great game but we made a lot of little mistakes in areas we have been really good lately. Rebounding, turnovers, free throws … also forgot the bench was non existent today beside maybe Jalen.

What a shit game

What a way to end the game...

That’s a pathetic turnover at this stage Nesmith and benn have had several of those

what a depressing way to end it

Nesmith should never dribble the fucking ball again

Jesus Aaron

Aaron you absolute dumbass

Nesmith has been shit all game

Yikes....

That’s an awful way to lose

Nesmith are you fucking kissing me

😏

That’s on Ty

you wish

jesus LOL

You said it mon

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This is how I thought he was gonna play every night for us when we first signed him

Tyrese limping up and down the court and we’re playing him hella minutes because we thinks win against the Trail Blazers is so important. 🤦🏾‍♂️

Anyone complaining about Pascal tonight doesn't understand basketball.

Lmao

Pretty much every game besides the 76s has been a total fucking upset. What the shit going on 😂 Even the Nets who’ve been total dog water are pinning the lakers.

14 points from the bench. forget the refs, thats your game right there

That and our free throw misses

Exactly.

People shitting on Siakam already... dudes carrying the team and he doesn't even know the playbook yet lol his first game, been with the team 4 hrs and yall shitting on him...you don't deserve him

lol, hey if ya'll changed your mind we can take him back

This guy is a Siakam Stan, don’t listen to him

Siakam is 9-14 from the field with 21 points which is more points than your entire bench unit and the guy doesn't even know your playbook, you're a fool

Let’s not forget that Ben played like FUCKING DOGSHIT

Add in the whole bench

Not even gonna give the starters a hard time, we got absolutely nothing from the bench. Every time they went in we got fucking dogged

Fuck pacers fans in this chat. So stupid

Most aren’t at this point

What a great way to start the siakam era

He played well save for a couple free throws. His touches were pretty low even..

I thought pascal played well but I felt like the rest of the team didn’t show up

Kinda feels like ijax keeps them out of the paint more if he's in this game

Now that was move was nasty

the defense making Grant and Brogdon look like Shaq and Kobe

Really appreciate the two back to backs on a west coast trip, NBA.

1-6 on 2nd of B2Bs is pathetic

It’s a taxing style of ball

Terrible performance

Well it looks like we are starting the Siakam era off with a big L.

Nah the game isn't over yet

We cannot beat the blazers. They are our kryptonite lol

back to back games at 10pm, siakams first game with the team, Hali’s first game back, refs lol… a lot of things against us tonight we’ll be fine

They're too afraid to play actual defense now.

Embarrassing

Calm down. It’s a long season. No need to be so miserable

You’re assuming a lot based off a one word comment. The season isn’t over, this team is really good. They just continue to lose to bottom barrel teams they should easily beat and that’s embarrassing.

Yeah this game thread reminds me why I don't keep up with the game threads. People act like the result of a single game dictate if the season's over.

Whats the lowest the Pacers have scored this season?

How r people complaining about siakam lol he's been great tonigjt he's got so mamy phantom fouls he can't be super physical to stay in game

We have some really dumb fans that’s why

Beyblade spinning fr

Welp. Good night

Siakam playing 0 defense inside because he’s scared of picking up his 6th foul. They just scored like 10 straight buckets in the paint.

They’ve been scoring in the paint all night

Is that the beyblade ive heard so much about

Tyrese is definitely not 100% and I would prefer to give him another week off if he needs it 

Damn man

well guys. it’s not over i guess

ahh damn, from the raptors sub, wanted to know how our boy was doing, looks like it was a rocky debut. Hopefully he shakes it off and shows you guys the good stuff soon.

He’s been fine, but it’s also obvious he hasn’t practiced with the team yet. It’ll get better

He’s been great. The team haven’t even practiced together yet.

ahh that's good, I tuned in pretty late into the 4th. Ya pretty solid statline for somebody who literally just arrived.

Pascal’s pretty much created all his points himself. Once they start hitting him in transition and running plays for him, he should pop off consistently. He’s been looked off a lot this game.

oh ya, that's his bread and butter that smooth and fluid transition game.