Pascal Siakam scored 25 points and Ethan Thompson chipped in 24 to lead six players in double figures as the visiting Indiana Pacers rolled past the slumping Chicago Bulls 145-126 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Indiana (18-58), which posted a season-high point total, swept the four-game season series with Chicago while winning consecutive road games for just the second time this season.<\/p>\n
The Bulls (29-47) trailed by as many as 28 en route to losing their fifth straight.<\/p>\n
The Pacers scored 32 points off 20 Bulls turnovers while collecting 49 assists, one shy of matching a franchise record.<\/p>\n
Guerschon Yabusele scored 20 points for the Bulls. Collin Sexton scored 18 points and Matas Buzelis collected 17 points, nine rebounds and six assists.<\/p>\n
Kobe Brown and Jay Huff both had 17 points for the Pacers.<\/p>\n
Indiana established a season best for points in a first half, taking an 83-66 lead into the break behind a balanced attack led by Siakam (23 points) and Huff (14).<\/p>\n
In addition to sizzling 61.1% shooting from the field in the opening half, the Pacers relied on sharp ball movement, assisting on 30 of their 33 made field goals before intermission.<\/p>\n
Huff, who entered the night as the NBA’s second-leading shot blocker, showed his offensive skillset in the early going, dishing three assists to go with a 5-for-6 effort from the floor that included four treys. His lone miss of the half — on a second-quarter 3 — still resulted in an assist as Brown corralled the ball and scored on a hook shot.<\/p>\n
While Chicago yielded the second-most points in a first half in club history, its offense at least was more competitive than its defense. The Bulls shot 55.3% in the first 24 minutes as Buzelis led the way with 14 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n
Bulls leading scorer Josh Giddey missed the game with left hamstring tightness.<\/p>\n
Ben Sheppard (13 points) and Taelon Peter (10) also scored in double figures for Indiana. Kam Jones dished seven assists while Quenton Jackson and Brown had six apiece.<\/p>\n
Tre Jones and Rob Dillingham both had 15 points for the Bulls while Isaac Okoro added 14.<\/p>\n
Indiana has won four in a row against Chicago for the first time since a 10-game streak bridging the 2017-18 and 2020-21 seasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Pascal Siakam scored 25 points and Ethan Thompson chipped in 24 to lead six players in double figures…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,113,126,3866,6,114],"class_list":{"0":"post-693908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indiana-pacers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-indiana","10":"tag-indiana-pacers","11":"tag-indianapacers","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-pacers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116335317057561018","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}