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Well. We gonna be seeing some Big Al tonight? Get better Myles my man.

Hopefully it's just the one game for Myles and he can get healthy quickly! Portland was probably gonna beat us anyways, but without Myles it'll be tough. Gonna need Oladipo to rock again, and Lance to have a better game, and obviously Sabonis has to step up as the starter tonight. Hopefully they've found some defense lying around somewhere in the last couple days as well.

I have a feeling we will get blown out tonight. Hoping they prove me wrong.

EDIT: Never mind, just saw Turner is out, we are definitely getting blown out.

Myles Turner out, could get uglier now. Already was gonna be ugly

This is not going to be pretty. Myles is out tomorrow as well but saw on Twitter that Whiteside will miss the game tomorrow.

@Portland without Turner... ouch.

2am on Friday? Will tune in.

In my opinion, Myles is the one player that we can not afford to lose.

Maybe Ike gets some minutes and proves he is ready to contribute in the NBA already.

Sakkreth wrote:@Portland without Turner... ouch.

2am on Friday? Will tune in.

The game is in Indianapolis not at portland. It will be interesting to see Sabonis starting at Center.

basketballwacko2 wrote:

Sakkreth wrote:@Portland without Turner... ouch.

2am on Friday? Will tune in.

The game is in Indianapolis not at portland. It will be interesting to see Sabonis starting at Center.

Ohh ok, but thread name says otherwise.

Woops

Not having Myles will be a big blow, but at least we have Sabonis to fill in now. Sabonis is probably a better defender on Nurkic either way and luckily Portland's backup centers aren't world beaters by any means.

Possibly means more minutes for Leaf, which is likely to be rough, but good long term. Or Big Al...

pacers33granger wrote:Not having Myles will be a big blow, but at least we have Sabonis to fill in now. Sabonis is probably a better defender on Nurkic either way and luckily Portland's backup centers aren't world beaters by any means.

Possibly means more minutes for Leaf, which is likely to be rough, but good long term. Or Big Al...

Nurkic is so big though. Not sure how much he weighs now, but he used to weigh close to 300 lbs.

Jstock12 wrote:

pacers33granger wrote:Not having Myles will be a big blow, but at least we have Sabonis to fill in now. Sabonis is probably a better defender on Nurkic either way and luckily Portland's backup centers aren't world beaters by any means.

Possibly means more minutes for Leaf, which is likely to be rough, but good long term. Or Big Al...

Nurkic is so big though. Not sure how much he weighs now, but he used to weigh close to 300 lbs.

Yeah the guy is huge, but Sabonis probably has a better chance of containing him than Myles does.

Make him run on the other end. Other teams used to do that to us when we still had Hibbert. With Sabonis (or Turner), we can punish the slower bulky guys from the perimeter.

Sakkreth wrote:

basketballwacko2 wrote:

Sakkreth wrote:@Portland without Turner... ouch.

2am on Friday? Will tune in.

The game is in Indianapolis not at portland. It will be interesting to see Sabonis starting at Center.

Ohh ok, but thread name says otherwise.

Yeah looks like who ever made the thread messed up.

pacers33granger wrote:

Jstock12 wrote:

pacers33granger wrote:Not having Myles will be a big blow, but at least we have Sabonis to fill in now. Sabonis is probably a better defender on Nurkic either way and luckily Portland's backup centers aren't world beaters by any means.

Possibly means more minutes for Leaf, which is likely to be rough, but good long term. Or Big Al...

Nurkic is so big though. Not sure how much he weighs now, but he used to weigh close to 300 lbs.

Yeah the guy is huge, but Sabonis probably has a better chance of containing him than Myles does.

I've checked youtube and found a cool highlight of Sabonis going at Nurkic at 0:15 mark in this vid:

It's official



It's Domas' chance to shine.

Going to be tough without Turner.

Hope we play a good game defensively and continue our pace from the last one.

Pacers are going to be just fine. They need a W, cause first game was fun, this one - for confidence.

POR 94 - IND 103