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Pacers are 7.5pt favorites on the road in Philly.

So far, the Pacers have had the 3rd toughest schedule in the NBA. But the team can get back on track tonight at winless Sixers. No word on Stuckey yet, but George Hill is out. Still, it should be a pretty easy win for the Pacers.

Looks like Stuckley is in..


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Correction: Stuckley is still questionable. My bad, I jumped the gun there.


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Minus the L, Stuckey We should beat this Sixers team, I am not sure why they are performing so badly as they have some nice pieces, but it seems that if you create a culture of defeat it is hard to win... who knew!

Candace Buckner tweets Stuckley is out again.


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Starting five:
Ellis
Miles
George
Allen
Mahinmi


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Yo, Pacers forum moderator...his name is Stuckey. Maybe you should tell your phone's autocorrect?

Man we put a butt whippin' on those guys! PG is a monster!!

Lol yeah my bad, that's on the auto correct. My bad!


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basketballwacko2 wrote:Man we put a butt whippin' on those guys! PG is a monster!!

He's been incredible. Tonight was the second time he got to the 30pt, 5reb, 5ast mark this season... prior to this season he'd only done that three times. Pretty crazy stuff.

Other highlights from the boxscore that stood out for me:

Mahinmi was a +43, by far the best in the game... Ellis/Miles both were +29. That was next best.

Lavoy Allen playing in his home town, rewarded Vogel for starting him by adding 4 quick points and an rebound. Nice start for him which really jump started the team IMO.

Pacers are one of the best 3pt shooting teams in the league and one of the best at defending the three... tonight was no different. Pacers shot 44% while forced Philly to shoot just 20%.

And lastly, Pacers defense forced Philly into 29 turnovers! Cant remember the last time i saw someone with that many in a single game. Props to the defense.

Anyhow, 7th win in the last 9. Team is rollin'.

I don't know if we won that or whether Philly lost it. No, in fact I do know. What an atrocious team Philly is... I thought they had improved over last year, at least in the starting five but Stauskas really was a TERRIBLE pick for the Kings (I watched those documentary videos by Grantland and thought he had to be superman the way they talked him up!) McConnell could be a nice point guard but Noel clearly doesn't like playing next to Okafor and then they have Embiid in the injury room as well. Terrible roster gets you terrible results, but 29!!! turnovers is unacceptable for any professional basketball team.

Did anything stand out for us?

Yeah, I have the feeling this was the game where Joe Young turned from being phased by the headlights to embracing them. That no-look Alley-Oop to Budinger was SWEET. Also good to see there is still life in Solo who had some nice plays in garbage time. Other than that, can someone please tell Philly to stop playing until they have an NBA worthy roster?

Well Philly is really bad, but we totally disrupted everything they were trying to do.

basketballwacko2 wrote:Well Philly is really bad, but we totally disrupted everything they were trying to do.

given that the only thing they are trying to do is get yet another very high draft pick, we sure didn't disrupt that.

Wizop wrote:

basketballwacko2 wrote:Well Philly is really bad, but we totally disrupted everything they were trying to do.

given that the only thing they are trying to do is get yet another very high draft pick, we sure didn't disrupt that.

They have been playing teams tough games and not getting blown out. But we made them look like a Tank team that won't win a game.

They were talking on national radio this morning about those 31 turnovers.