Why Indiana Pacers had a disaster second half in Game 3 loss to Milwaukee Bucks, series at 2-1
The Indiana Pacers were dreadful in the second half of Game 3, and it led to their first loss of the series. What went wrong? Why were the Pacers so bad on both ends? What did the Milwaukee Bucks do so well? Host Tony East breaks it all down.
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Timestamps!
0:00 Pacers disastrous second half in Game 3
5:03 Bucks defensive adjustments slow Pacers offense
10:08 Gary Trent's hot shooting and Pacers defensive issues
15:14 Analyzing Pacers rotation changes and bench play
20:48 Turner and Haliburton struggle, Siakam shines
They gave up in the 4th they could loose the series !?
Don't let the Bucks get game 4, if they do, the Pacers are in trouble.
They just don't play as well on the road. Luckily the Bucks were having their own issues in the first half but you had to know that wouldn't last. Some of those shots were embarrassing, McConnell misses an uncontested layup, Hali throwing up air balls, Turner missing the rim, Nesmith and Siakam were solid but that isn't enough on the road in a do or die for the home team.
Jacking up too many threes and not putting it in the basket is the major downfall. Why not try to shoot closer to the basket and attempt more 2 pts shots and create fouls?
Less yapping, more basketball
We had them in foul trouble early then never go to the rim after, baffling.
Bucks in 6.
Their arrogance and poor sportsmanship will be their undoing.
Haliburton was in his own head again. Myles turner sucked. The 1st half from both teams struggled offensively. Then 2nd half for whatever reason pacers became lazy on defense and over helping leaving 3 point shooters open was absolutely terrible. I feel like mathurin shooting too many 3's for my liking, he just needs to keep driving to the hoop.
Guy's I KNOW it SUCKS, but the BUCKS "HAD TO WIN THIS GAME". There was a Better than Not Chance they were. THEY DID WHAT THEY HAD TO DO. The NEXT 2 Games are key.
Tony, do you think Giannis is wearing Siakam down on the defensive end? He fouled Giannis to get a breather and never checked back in as the game unraveled. Could this be a concern moving forward? There are no more two day breaks.
Lillard shooting 2/12 and losing by 16 is WILD
I don't understand why we didn't take advantage of those who won the final trouble three different starters had a foul in the first quarter none of which ended with more than 4 fouls we must do better
Correction, that lineup for the Bucks that works best, is without Dame. That's the lineup that started putting the game away.
Shepherd’s mins weren’t the problem, it was Bryant’s mins that should have been given to Walker.
I didn’t expect to win this tbh. Whatever we can do to shore up the problems that caused the 2nd half collapse will be crucial for game 4
Love to see the comments are being unnormal about a loss that required the pacers to be cold and bucks to not only be hot but to have a Gary Trent legacy game
Pacers can't guard Milwaukee. 2 games now they were in foul trouble by half time.😂
build the 🧱
Yeah we put the clamps on you
I thought the Pacers shot poorly in the first half for the type of shots they were getting. It just got worse after the Bucks started playing defense and the Pacers stopped playing defense.
kuzma is ya best player