The Houston Rockets look to continue their winning ways as they welcome the Indiana Pacers to Toyota Center.
Indiana has been decimated by injuries. In addition to the obvious injury to Tyrese Haliburton, they’ve lost eight games of Andrew Nembhard, ten games of Ben Sheppard, 11 games of Benedict Mathurin, 20 games of Aaron Nesmith, 28 games of Obi Toppin (and counting), and 12 games of T.J. McConnell.
Understandably, the Pacers are dead last in offense, 22nd in defense, have the lowest eFG% in the league, are 23rd in defensive rebounding, and foul a lot.
Indiana has the worst record in the league and are likely to get a top 5 pick in the upcoming NBA Draft. That’s the silver lining for them: adding a good rookie to a pretty good basketball team (when healthy). Next year’s Eastern Conference figures to be a bit better than this year’s version, so look out for an Indiana resurgence.
Alperen Sengun: GTD (calf)
The Line (as of this post)
Looking ahead because we can
Thursday night on the road against the Brooklyn Nets