#Indiana Pacers at Atlanta Hawks
State Farm Arena- Atlanta, GA
[ESPN](https://www.espn.com/nba/game/_/gameId/401584127)
[TV/Radio](https://reddit.com/r/AtlantaHawks/comments/180uvrt/game_thread_indiana_pacers_75_at_atlanta_hawks_66/ka89a3o/)
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|Time Clock|
|:–:|
|Final|
||Q1|Q2|Q3|Q4|Total|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|IND |34|39|46|38|157|
|ATL |40|46|28|38|152|
###Player Stats
**Indiana Pacers**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|B. Hield|30:53|24|9-11|6-6|0-0|1|1|2|1|0|0|1|3|20
|A. Nesmith|24:40|17|6-9|1-3|4-5|1|0|1|1|1|1|0|4|4
|M. Turner|25:26|11|4-7|0-2|3-4|1|8|9|1|0|4|1|3|5
|B. Brown|30:28|13|5-10|2-5|1-2|0|0|0|3|2|0|2|4|-1
|T. Haliburton|38:31|37|11-18|9-15|6-7|1|4|5|16|3|1|6|0|16
|B. Mathurin|20:29|19|7-10|2-4|3-4|0|2|2|1|0|0|0|2|-1
|O. Toppin|33:53|21|9-16|1-6|2-2|0|1|1|6|1|1|2|3|-3
|J. Smith|5:13|6|2-2|0-0|2-4|2|1|3|0|0|0|0|0|-10
|T. McConnell|13:46|2|1-5|0-0|0-0|0|0|0|4|0|0|0|1|-4
|B. Sheppard|4:33|5|2-5|1-4|0-0|0|1|1|1|0|0|0|0|-9
|I. Jackson|12:08|2|1-1|0-0|0-0|1|4|5|1|0|4|1|5|8
**Atlanta Hawks**
|Player|MINS|PTS|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|ORB|DRB|REB|AST|STL|BLK|TO|PF|+/-|
|:–|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|–:|
|D. Hunter|26:54|7|3-7|1-2|0-0|2|2|4|1|1|0|3|2|-11
|J. Johnson|33:11|17|6-12|0-2|5-5|1|6|7|6|2|1|1|2|-4
|C. Capela|18:47|14|6-9|0-0|2-3|3|2|5|1|0|2|1|4|-10
|D. Murray|34:15|28|11-19|4-6|2-2|1|2|3|5|2|0|5|3|-7
|T. Young|38:49|38|13-17|5-8|7-8|0|1|1|8|3|0|3|3|-2
|B. Bogdanovic|26:21|26|10-15|2-5|4-4|0|2|2|0|0|0|0|4|-2
|S. Bey|30:51|12|4-7|2-4|2-5|1|9|10|2|0|0|0|0|4
|O. Okongwu|22:20|7|3-7|0-2|1-1|4|2|6|4|0|1|1|2|6
|W. Matthews|8:32|3|1-2|1-2|0-0|0|1|1|1|0|0|1|3|1
###Team Stats
|Team|FGM-A|3PM-A|FTM-A|AST|PF|STL|TO|BLK|OREB|DREB|REB|
|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|:–|
|IND|57-94|22-45|21-28|35|25|7|13|11|7|22|42|
|ATL|57-95|15-31|23-28|28|23|8|15|4|12|27|45|
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What’s our strength of schedule ranking this year? Feels like every game is against a top team.
“I thought our guys really competed until the end”
I’m from the future and have already seen Quin’s postgame conference
Hunter is trash, he lost the ball without being touched a majority of the possessions he tried to dribble. As good as Murray can be, that last possession was idiotic. Your down by 3 with 11 secs left and you attempt a contested layup? Really??? I’m starting to see what Collins was referring to when he said he loves the Jazz because of “their lack of egos.” We have very selfish, egotistical players on our team who do stupid shit at the worst times. Midlanta strikes again
As a Pacers fan, you Hawks have a good broadcast crew.
Hunter needs his role changed. His defense is fine, but his offense should only be based off other’s offense – it should not run through him – catch and shoot, maybe a drive off a pass, but never should he be generating offense off his weak dribble or his “power”. The man is clueless trying to generate on his own – unaware of guards around him that will strip him, unaware that he can’t just drive straight at shot blockers like Turner. Really 5 live ball TOs for him counting the obvious blocks he gave Turner. Need Quin to adjust his play.
Should we start Bogi and sit Hunter?
That was a fun game to watch. Hats off to Halliburton and Hield who were amazing.
Bogi attempted like 3 or 4 shots in 2nd half after catching fire in 1st, feels like it happens way 2 often with him but offense wasnt a problem in this game, losing while shooting 60/50/90 is insane… ik that Pacers playing super fast but wtf was this game
I have never been so sure we need to trade hunter.
U know what’s testament to how garbage Hunter is everybody got their stats tonight and he’s sitting with a cool 7/4/1 with 3 turnovers
Hard to get excited for the in season tournament when you’re back to back play in tournament champions of the world
Made the decision for my health a few games ago (blood pressure issues)to stop watching Hawks games for a little while. Based of how this game ended I think that was a good idea lmbo. Still a fan tho. But I gotta choose me
Welp! The pacers shot like crazy. Defense literally is no more in the nba lol.
Dre is mentally done. The body language was awful.
Shocker we’re fucking mid and yet again a play in team. Fuck my life man 😂
Dejounte on his IG Story probably: “My Fault Yall !! That Was On Me!! I Got To Be Better Fasho. We Gon Get It Right. Believe. 💯”
Trae the next day posting 4 photos: “Marathon 🏁 Not A Sprint 🫡”
Trade DJM for Zach Lavine and Hunter for Detroit Bogi. We suck on D anyways, just go all out on offence lol
What does Hunter do at an nba level even his defense is debatable at this point
if this wasn’t the hawks, it would be a fun ass game to watch (im pretending we weren’t up by 20 btw)
Hunter is Mr. ROBOTO, Capela is a stone-handed weak link offensively, and honestly not he’s regressed a little so far. It’s still crazy early in the season, gotta remember that. With football season running concurrently, it’s hard not to latch on and want to win every game. Gotta win these games, but there will be plenty games where we come from behind. It’s naive and borderline foolish to think this team is going anywhere worth importance as currently constructed. We HAVE to make a few trades and get another bench piece and a starter that plays defense
I just don’t understand why we’re playing Bogi and Bey at the end over Capela and Hunter but then neither of them take a 3. Like what was the point of sacrificing defense if you’re not going to use their offense???
awful. Trae will be gone in the next 2-3 years, and our ineptitude will be the culprit. I’m serious at this point that I would prefer him taking half court shots over this mess. It’s just depressing and makes me want to tune out.
Both teams had all star level defense tonight . How can you win games when the opposing teams scores 150 with no OT
It’s truly not even about how good or bad they are I genuinely think hunter and capela just don’t fit what the team is trying to do right now. I think both can be decent rotation guys but somewhere else that doesn’t wanna play as loose and aggressively
Fucking Halliburton man.. he was untouchable tonight
Why was I born in Atlanta?
Clint was cooking and should’ve had more time, despite the foul trouble.
I shouldn’t want an aging Paul George but that’s what watching Deandre Hunter play basketball does to a person
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Make the OG trade and get hunter tf out
Are the Hunter truthers still there? If you are I don’t want to talk to you, but just wondering. It feels like I don’t have them in my dms very much anymore.
edit: nvm someone downvoted one of my hunter sucks posts. keep up the good fight y’all!
Btw getting rid of Capela would cripple Trae if we don’t get another Rim Runner/ Lob Threat in return.
Be careful what you ask for.
I’d have kept JC over Hunter. Especially since we gave him away for nothing. Or at least packaged them together for something real in return.
On the bright side, the Nets tomorrow are fucked
My wife has been saying for years to trade Trae because he always tries to play hero ball at the end and he alone makes our D trash and I hate it when she is right. She also saw us up by 20 and said we were gonna lose in the end
Ok all bitching aside I think we actually played well tonight and got really f’ing unlucky that indy had the most unconscious shooting night of all time and basically shot the ball every 5 seconds. Not a lot to break down in this game. It felt like almost everyone played well offensively (obviously not hunter, he sucks.)
Very frustrating to have a losing record and keep losing close games, but it also feels like we’ve mostly been playing really good teams. And then of course we lost to the f’ing hornets.
I think the ball will bounce our way and teams will stop shooting absurdly from 3 at some point. I think our defense is still bad but marginally better. I think the JJ emergence will be huge for us. But something has to change. Hunter for sure needs to go, but we need something (imo we need a dawg like caruso/OG on the perimeter most of all). Also, OO and CC are both just ‘solid’. I want to see OO emerge more, play better D, and just be that trash talking physical dawg that plays with high IQ that we need.
Was at the game it was pretty hype. The problem is dre.
Hunter is useless,another awful toxic contract
This the type of loss I need a three day break from but hawks play again tomorrow
I’m slightly concerned considering our schedule hasn’t really been that hard. I feel most of the teams we’ve played are in the play-in/1st round exit tier
We mid bros
[Goodnight!](https://music.apple.com/us/album/break-my-soul/1630005298?i=1630005854)
Was at the game tonight, arena was lit! Any other time this loss wouldn’t hurt bc the score was CRAZY from both teams, but the fact we been on a little losing streak got me upset. On to the next.
The crowd def was upset at Hunter tonight, everyone else was good.
I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed
Lloyd Pierce probably grinning from ear to ear with that win rn smh
if next game wesley isn’t starting over hunter i quit
Oh – worth mentioning. We passed on Halliburton to take OO in the 2020 draft. A lot of people wanted us to take him.
I like OO in general, would like to see more from him. But man.
Guess we should’ve kept JC at the 4 and JJ at the 3 and dump Hunter?
The fact that Trae wasn’t the worst defender on the team today should be embarrassing for the other guys
Giving up almost ***50*** in the third quarter is embarrassing, even if the majority of it was from a once in a season performance by Hali
God I can’t wait for ppl who thought we were gonna be a top 3 seed to start being right 💔