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Any idea if and what kind (color/verbiage) of t-shirts the Pacers might give away at tomorrow’s home game? Go Pacers!!

Are we gonna embrace the Overrated chants Cleveland gave us. Like when Brock Purdy became Mr Relevant, are we gonna nickname Tyrese, Mr Overrated? I think we should.

IM STILL HARD

THAT DUNK WAS ENOURMOUS FOR OUR RUN LATE IN THAT GAME.

HUGE MOMENT THAT IS FORGOTTEN WITH TYS GAME WINNER

Just had to throw Myles quote from the after game presser about Ty.

YES CERS!

Are we even living in the same timeline?

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Most used lineup: P.Siakam, A.Nembhard, T.Haliburton, M.Turner, A.Nesmith: 117 MIN, +45, 14.4 Net Rtg, 123.8 Off Rtg, 109.4 Def Rtg

Myles Turner has been dragged through the mud by Pacer fans for years. Every year in trade talks, constantly called soft. While he has obvious flaws (rebounding), he has been an amazing vet.

He loves to let the young guys get their shine, doesn't need his own
Lets the game come to him
The first to call himself out
Stands up for his teammates but avoids fights/techs
No bitterness about the business
Keeps positivity high
Plays best at the end of games
Creates a great collaborative culture for the other bigs

So glad pacer nation has embraced him more in the past two years. I truly believe this team would be rudderless at times without him. Ty is very emotional and Pascal doesn't have that Pacer history. Hopefully we find a creative way to keep him without giving up too much.

Hello all, I’d like to issue a formal apology on behalf of my and others hating on Tyrese ”Tyrese Haliburton” Haliburton. When I made those comments those didn’t reflect who I was as a person, and moving forward I would like to address and move on with Haliburton love in my heart. It was hard seeing Dame get bested in a rivalry with somebody younger than him, however I reflected and realized this unfortunately is how life goes. Will be rooting for the Pacers.

Good wishes.

We don’t have alot of history or beef with this modern Cavs team what will the chants be at gainbridge if we win game 3 do we just chant we want Brunson or Boston?

gave me even more appreciation for what Ty has done in these playoffs. Dude is cold!

My wife and I were watching the game last night as we usually do. Before we were together I don't think she even knew who the Pacers were, now she is a diehard. She comes from sports science and medicine. She watches these games through a different lens. I'm watching it through pure hatred, joy and sorrow. Last night during the third quarter, through my raised blood pressure and nagging desire to turn off the television, my wife announces very casually that the Pacers have the Cavs where they want them. I dismissed her comments thinking "what does SHE know?".

The Pacers go on to win and she doesn't seem surprised at all. She has watched them all year with me and has such a quiet confidence in games predicting the win. She oddly enough also knows if we are going to lose as well. After Tyrese pulls off a Reggie Miller esque shot, I scream, cover my mouth with my shirt and fall over are ottoman in disbelief. She looks at me and says "see?".

She noticed that Rick plays our bench and leaves them in ignoring all of our pleas and shouts to the TV to put the starters back in. She said that this is intentional and it exahausts the other team. I knew that, I've always known that, but I'm times of despair I don't think logically. The Cavs were absolutely gassed last night in the 4th. People are saying that the Cavs gave it away but did they? It seems to me this is their entire plan to start with. It's calculated and bold. The Pacers Rope-a-Dope. This lead us into the conversation about injuries on other teams.

The narrative has been Pacers only win because the other teams are injured. Outside of Lillard, which they were not winning with him regardless. This season everyone has been pretty much healthy outside of Garland, which has been claimed the Cavs are better without. So why are we getting this narrative once again? My wife in all of her knowledge ran down what happens to muscles that are forced to operate outside of their conditioning. The Pacers forcing teams to move faster, twist their bodies suddenly for the block attempt on the quick transition, constant added stress from the slight uptick endurance usage. This all leads to injury. We've seen this last year with the Knicks. Them not having a bench and Thibs being forced to play the starters matched with the Pacers unusually high pace of play, broke them.

My last bit will be the claims of Pacers having no star power and no one that can individually, consistently score 30+ points. I believe Haliburton, Siakam, Turner, and Nembhard are all very capable of this. Rick runs this as a team and doesn't want ISO hero ball. He wants Indiana basketball that to us reflects Bobby Knight. Our team operates on the firm awareness that we have multiple people who can score at will therefore we do not need to have an entire team revolve around one player. Hopefully the Pacers can go all the way soon, maybe in the next few years or maybe this year! My hopes are our style of basketball evolves the NBA to not focus on one person being the source of 40% of the teams points. Everyone is saying how much fun the Pacers are to watch, that is because we play the game as a team.

HOLY SHIT HALIBURTON

Ive watched 30years plus of NBA and i really think it COULD be our time. if haliburton remains this clutch, and Neclutch and Nembdawg play with that level of aggression we can do it

Video on X which not allowed to post, somehow didn’t get a single vote for most clutch player.

Pics of Kenny Atkinson fouling everyone he interacts with - man is a certifiable menace, must be stopped.

Need a community presser where this behavior can be addressed in a public platform, where concerned citizens can place emphasis on key buzz words repeated rhythmically, such as pushing, holding, pushing, holding, with the occasional fouling thrown in there.

Considering his limited playoff experience so far in his career, he's been quite impressive.

He has had some games where he's disappeared but he's shown that his ceiling is very high. He has the ability to be clutch and take a game over and he's clearly a playoff riser.

Who knows what will ultimately happen this year but the Pacers always have a chance when Haliburton is playing well.

The sky's the limit and it's going to be exciting to see how far this team can go this year and into the future

I became a fan after this game when he is not playing the Pacers. Not only cause he was unstoppable and played an amazing game. He quieted the crowd when fans were yelling “overrated”, he’s playing through injury, and most of all he didn’t whine like his coach postgame. After having a monster night he said he should have boxed out Nesmith. I just thought it was super classy and competitive.

Cavs fans that feel sucky, at least you got a good cat there.

No way after an emotional loss like that they come back to OUR home floor and win a game or 2 I don’t see them winning any game they messed up bad by letting us win those two games in Cleveland Pacers are sweeping the Cavs.

Personally I'd say

1. Reggie

2. McGinnis

3. Daniels

4. PG

5. JO

6. Tyrese Haliburton

7. Roger Brown

So #6 all time, #4 if excluding the ABA

Just rewatched the last 2 minutes again. The play that isn’t getting talked about enough is forcing the cavs to call their last timeout after Siakam’s basket because they couldn’t get the ball in. This meant

1. They couldn’t call a timeout to stop a 5 second violation and so were forced to throw a reckless pass which Nembhard intercepted

2. They couldn’t challenge Donovan’s foul on Tyrese

3. They couldn’t set themselves for a final shot and so had to rush to get a pass in instead of being able to set a play in the front court.

Those offensive plays were amazing, but the tough defense really set the plate for this win!!