Why Indiana Pacers couldn’t keep up with Denver Nuggets despite 15 assists from Tyrese Haliburton
The Indiana Pacers fell to the Denver Nuggets on Monday, and the possession battle as well as defensive strategy sunk them. What went wrong for the Pacers? Why couldn’t they keep up? Host Tony East breaks it all down.
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17 Comments
Not the worst loss, but it would have been really cool to win this one
Just validates that we're not with the big boys!
Tough game Nuggets role players had a night. That happens every once in a while. Tyrese is really looking good since the break hope it continues
About halfway through the first quarter I looked up and saw Jokic already had 5-6 assists and Gordon scored more points than his game avg. I thought it would be worse, but Pacers stuck with them. In the last few minutes Ty was super pissed at the ref and wouldn't stop complaining. Johnson, Turner, and others had to calm him down and lift up his spirit.
A lot of overreactions after last night but bottom line is the role players for the nuggets stepped up. Have to be better at protecting the paint. Aaron Gordon and Nnaji shot the lights out. I feel like we played Jokic ok. Defense on cuts was ridiculous.
I would have liked to see Siakam gets some rest. He looks to be playing with some heavy legs since the all-star break. I think this would have been an opportune time to get Walker some playing time while giving Siakam a break on a back to back. I don't think that would have changed the outcome but it would have given Siakam some additional rest leading up to the next game.
Pacers had a number of good shots that didn’t drop, missed a lot of bunnies around the rim all while the nuggets couldn’t miss.
I thought the back to back hurt us cause we looked tired at the end. If we hadn’t maybe one of those 3 at the end would have went down and pulled us closer. And yes the second unit just looked a little discombobulated without TJ
Worst Rick game of the year. We're going over on screens all game and they are running dho's and pin downs and then looping around them and cutting in the paint getting tons of free penetration and wide open layups. Points in the paint reflects this, 74 PIP. He's gotta adjust to that and start going under.
Any team would have a tough time beating Denver on a back to back. Not worried. We move
Rebounding ability is an inconvenient truth for this team.
What matters is that we kept it close the almost the whole game. Which shows that we are able to keep up with them. If we hit our open shots next time we face them no doubt we’ll win😊
Embarrassing🙈🙈🙈🙈
Part of the problem was making the starters play the whole 4thQ. Yeah, the bench was having trouble last night, but the starters were totally gassed in the final minutes.
Loved the breakdown!
Timestamps!
0:00 Pacers lose to Nuggets, ending streak
5:05 Nuggets dominate possession battle and rebounds
10:41 Pacers defensive strategy against Nuggets
16:14 Pacers struggle with cutters and role players
20:48 Obi Toppin's impact on game pace
24:51 Bennedict Mathurin's recent play
There was a stretch on this game where Denver was up 6-8 and they ran a real offense that resulted in several layups and on the other end, all we did was hunt 3s. That was the difference in this game.