Post#3 » by Topofthekey » Fri Aug 17, 2018 12:15 pm
Pacers has always been the underdog team the past 25 years or so
There's always another team in their conference that was the heavily favoured team, and Pacers no matter how good they are have always been expected by people to know their place - give the favoured team a good fight, be a good sport, and ultimately roll over and lose when they are supposed to lose
Even now Vic is underrated as heck. He's legitimately the best SG in the East, and perhaps top 5 in the league, and yet you don't see his name pop up in many discussions. Even if it does, it's usually along the lines of "oh yea Oladipo is good, but..."
I remember a while back there was a thread about which team has the best bench
To me Pacers with CoJo, Evans, McDermott, KoQ, Sabonis, has got to be in the top 5 - that lineup is essentially a better version of last season's Grizzlies that won 22 games