Pacers Pick Tracking (Update: #19 officially)

[GoRapstheoriginal]

Come on all the scores are almost going our way tonight oh ya!

[CazOnReal]

5th odds might not be out of reach after all...

[ArthurVandelay]

OKC **** the bed

[Boardbreaker]

5th odds might not be out of reach after all...

Looking at their remaining schedule this might be their last win.

[SpezNc]

Tonight results are depressing

I don’t see how Pacers get in the play in.

They have full control of their destiny

The other night was great

Tonight feel like the opposite

[ArthurVandelay]

Tonight results are depressing

I don’t see how Pacers get in the play in.

They have full control of their destiny

The other night was great

Tonight feel like the opposite

Pacers have tie breaker with Knicks

Magic have tie breaker with pacers


Sunday pacers game vs heat will be huge

[CazOnReal]

5th odds might not be out of reach after all...

Looking at their remaining schedule this might be their last win.

Depends on if teams start to rest their best against them.

2 more wins will tie them with us, assuming we continue to lose and finish 23-59.

3 wins will give us the 5th best odds.

Not impossible, but certainly improbable.

[WuTang_CMB]

Grizz win
Thats a wash

[CazOnReal]

Guess Dame wanted to do Portland a solid to let them keep the 5th best odds pre-lottery

[ArthurVandelay]

Overall disappointing night with Pacers winning but Heat also won which was the other most important game setting up Sunday

[YogurtProducer]

We have okay depth now, 1000% better depth than we had since 2021.

Gary started for us in 2022, and our bench was Thad/Boucher/Achiwua/Birch. That team somehow won 48 games.

The fact Gary/Olynyk/Brown/Dick are all guys we can bring off the bench now is light and day different. We could also end up bringing in 2-3 rookies and if any of them even make a slight impact as a 10th man that would be a boost.

The 2022 team winning 48 games and realistically the same team (plus Poeltl less FVV) winning like 25-30 games this year just shows that looking at a roster year over year and expecting the same results is poor analysis. Same as our 2013 team winning 34 games and 2024 winning 48.

I don’t think that Gary/KO/Brown/Dick is good depth…but that’s just me. They all have significant holes in their game in some way and the only one has a chance to improve at this point is the skinny rook. The fact they are better than recent years is more of an indictment on those recent years.

As for the 48 win season, I think it was the style of play that caught a lot of teams off guard but the counter game plan was eventually figured out. Plus it was an extremely difficult style of play to sustain and needed total buy in from players. The individual competing interests from the coaches down to the players ensured it was a short lived success.

I can't imagine most people who actually watch basketball would actually consider that depth.

GTJ is the most productive of the bunch, Dick has the most potential. But outside of that we have Brown who absolutely requires a better team to be better, and then KO who is by no stretch bad, but he's getting older and can't play defence to save his life.

GTJ is at best a 6th man off the bench, he is not a legit starter, he's way too streaky for that. Dick likely will be, but that's probably a couple years away. This team is as shallow as a puddle. We could maybe manage an injury to RJ with GTJ/Dick, but if any other starter goes down, the team is in for a world of hurt. Who the hell replaces Scottie at even 50% performance, or IQ? And even Jak who I am not super high on, is hard to replace with this roster.

We don't even have a competent bench unit, let alone the ability to have a "next man up" type of situation occur. It ain't 2017/18, or even close.

Yall are so spoiled by the we the north era that you don’t realize that might be the only team in NBA history that has 9-10 staring calibre players on a single team.

GTJ/Brown/Olynyk is as good of a core 3 bench unit as any NBA team. The 60 win Celtics have Horfors/Pritchard/Hauser. The Nuggets have Braun/Jackson/Watson.

Like most teams don’t have studs in their 6–10 spots.

[CazOnReal]

Overall disappointing night with Pacers winning but Heat also won which was the other most important game setting up Sunday

With the Pacers having played 1 more game than the Heat, they're essentially tied for 6/7. I'm not sure who owns the tiebreaker but Sunday's game is big for determining that if it hasn't been decided already.

[ArthurVandelay]

Overall disappointing night with Pacers winning but Heat also won which was the other most important game setting up Sunday

With the Pacers having played 1 more game than the Heat, they're essentially tied for 6/7. I'm not sure who owns the tiebreaker but Sunday's game is big for determining that if it hasn't been decided already.

They are tied 1-1

[CazOnReal]

Overall disappointing night with Pacers winning but Heat also won which was the other most important game setting up Sunday

With the Pacers having played 1 more game than the Heat, they're essentially tied for 6/7. I'm not sure who owns the tiebreaker but Sunday's game is big for determining that if it hasn't been decided already.

They are tied 1-1

Herro better show up Sunday.

[JB7]

With the Pacers having played 1 more game than the Heat, they're essentially tied for 6/7. I'm not sure who owns the tiebreaker but Sunday's game is big for determining that if it hasn't been decided already.

They are tied 1-1

Herro better show up Sunday.

What matters now amongst the Pacers, Heat and Sixers is losses. Pacers and Heat are tied in losses at 34, and Sixers at 35.

Pacers final 4 games: Heat, Raps, Cavs and Hawks (Biggest game is against the Heat, but could the Raps, Cavs or Hawks upset the Pacers)
Heat final 5 games: Pacers, Hawks, Mavs, Raps x2 (Game against Pacers is huge, plus can they avoid a loss to the Mavs)
Sixers final 5 games: Griz, Spurs, Pistons, Magic & Nets (Sixers could probably run the table)

A lot of interesting races for playoff position to end the season.

[LoveMyRaps]

Pacers won. SMH.

It's in the third quarter.

I was trying my jinx method that had been working up until tonight.

[SpezNc]

Grizz win
Thats a wash

Is it the last Memphis win?

It’s 50-50 they win against San Antonio

I don’t see them beating Denver, Lakers, 76’ers (with Embiid), Cavalier

Our 6th position is not sealed yet.

Raptors could win againt Washington, Nets and split the Miami’s game.

I know we can rest some players but still.

Like many point out, we have control of our destiny. And that’s a plus.

Still need a massive shift for Memphis catching us

But it’s not done yet.

It’s weird that despite Memphis winning, I feel less much less secured than yesterday about our 6th position.

I am probably worrying for nothing my gut is telling me that tonight’s win could hurt us.

[CazOnReal]

Grizz win
Thats a wash

Is it the last Memphis win?

It’s 50-50 they win against San Antonio

I don’t see them beating Denver, Lakers, 76’ers (with Embiid), Cavalier

Our 6th position is not sealed yet.

Raptors could win againt Washington, Nets and split the Miami’s game.

I know we can rest some players but still.

Like many point out, we have control of our destiny. And that’s a plus.

Still need a massive shift for Memphis catching us

But it’s not done yet.

It’s weird that despite Memphis winning, I feel less much less secured than yesterday about our 6th position.

I am probably worrying for nothing my gut is telling me that tonight’s win could hurt us.

We're lucky if we win another game this season

[ArthurVandelay]

Grizz win
Thats a wash

Is it the last Memphis win?

It’s 50-50 they win against San Antonio

I don’t see them beating Denver, Lakers, 76’ers (with Embiid), Cavalier

Our 6th position is not sealed yet.

Raptors could win againt Washington, Nets and split the Miami’s game.

I know we can rest some players but still.

Like many point out, we have control of our destiny. And that’s a plus.

Still need a massive shift for Memphis catching us

But it’s not done yet.

It’s weird that despite Memphis winning, I feel less much less secured than yesterday about our 6th position.

I am probably worrying for nothing my gut is telling me that tonight’s win could hurt us.

That win definitely going to cost them…more than 6th too

5th was in play.

Portland @ Boston is likely a loss but they are resting.

Portland with NO, HOU, GSW at home with Zion/BI likely out for NO, season done after loss to warriors for HOU where Udoka called them soft or scared after, and GSW having wrapped up 10th.

Sacramento is sliding and who knows the last day of season.

What’s meant to be will be but the odds are also the odds.

[RoteSchroder]

People actually think that the Raptors will be the only team that is allowed to improve this offseason while everyone else will stay the same or get worse loll.

Poeltl only played in 14 games after the Siakam trade where they went 6-8. In two of those losses RJ was out. Scottie got injured in a 3rd loss against GSW. Meaning we went 6-5 without injuries.

After the OG trade, Raptors were 3-1 with the new group + Siakam before a Poeltl injury. Bringing us to 9-6.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/p/poeltja01/gamelog/2024

Edward Rogers just straight up lying with those stats , I’m assuming cause he wants Masai out of the picture.

Sure is a good thing only the Raptors ever deal with injuries right?

And those 6 wins?

CHA
HOU
BRK
ATL
IND
CHA

So again, just like post trade last year, we only beat bad teams, and in this case a single win against the pacers. Oh also the hornets didn't have Lamelo or Hayward, the Rockets didnt have FVV, so I guess by your metrics, those 3 wins don't count. So we went 3-5.

But it's all good, so long as we never have any injuries, and we play primarily sub .500 teams, we might sniff 40 wins.

Not sure why you’re so triggered by a statistical correction. It’s just a fact they went 6-5/9-6.

Don’t let facts get in the way of your feelings.

If they beat all the **** teams, then they’d just be a play-in team. No one said they were amazing or anything, so calm down.