Tripod wrote:pingpongrac wrote:YogurtProducer wrote:Hailiburton has not been the same since he got hurt. Only playing 28-29mpg, averages down to 15/9 instead of 24/13 before the trade.
Look no further than last night. 0 points on 0/7 shooting with 3 rebounds and 3 assists in 22 minutes. And that's coming just a few days after he went 2/11 against us.
But they also upgraded from Brown to a borderline All Star. That should have helped offset Hali playing worse.
Haliburton was putting up 24/4/13 on 50/40/87 shooting splits (63 TS%) before his injury while he is putting up 15/3/9 on 45/34/77 shooting splits (56 TS%) in his last 15 games. You're talking about 15-20 points of production less from Haliburton on less efficiency which is a massive drop-off on its own. Then when you consider that Indiana also downgraded Hield to McDermott while missing 1-2 additional rotation pieces for a pretty big chunk of their last 20 games, it's not that surprising at all that they're just 10-10.
Expecting Siakam – who has been great with Indiana, averaging 21/7/5 on 61 TS% – to make up for Haliburton's step drop-off in play as well as having no Hield plus Nesmith, Mathurin, Jackson, Smith, etc. for a good chunk of those games is just unrealistic.