{"id":794415,"date":"2026-07-24T05:18:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:18:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/794415\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T05:18:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T05:18:18","slug":"i-think-our-coaches-felt-really-comfortable-with-his","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/794415\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI think our coaches felt really comfortable with his \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Potter had a better season in 2025\/26 than Nance did, averaging 9.7 points and 5.0 rebounds in 19.3 minutes per game with a .515\/.423\/.842 shooting line while Nance averaged just 3.7 PPG and 2.7 RPG in 12.8 MPG and battled injuries. However, the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/indiana\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Pacers;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Pacers&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pacers<\/a> valued Nance\u2019s defensive versatility and veteran know-how, according to Buchanan, who said the 33-year-old was <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nba\/teams\/indiana\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Indiana;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Indiana&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Indiana<\/a>\u2019s \u201cbest option that was gettable\u201d among this summer\u2019s frontcourt free agents. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/pacers-gm-buchanan-talks-oubre-nance-centers-two-ways.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u201cI think our coaches felt really comfortable with his basketball IQ, his experience, and just his personality felt like a really good fit with our locker room as well,\u201d the Pacers\u2019 GM said. \u201cLarry really had targeted us, wanted to be here with the Pacers and I think he\u2019s very motivated to have a bounce-back season. I think he would be the first to admit that last year didn\u2019t go the way he hoped it would. He\u2019s very motivated to come in and fit in and play well for us this season.\u201d;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;\u201cI think our coaches felt really comfortable with his basketball IQ, his experience, and just his personality felt like a really good fit with our locker room as well,\u201d the Pacers\u2019 GM said. \u201cLarry really had targeted us, wanted to be here with the Pacers and I think he\u2019s very motivated to have a bounce-back season. I think he would be the first to admit that last year didn\u2019t go the way he hoped it would. He\u2019s very motivated to come in and fit in and play well for us this season.\u201d&quot;}\" class=\"link \">\u201cI think our coaches felt really comfortable with his basketball IQ, his experience, and just his personality felt like a really good fit with our locker room as well,\u201d the Pacers\u2019 GM said. \u201cLarry really had targeted us, wanted to be here with the Pacers and I think he\u2019s very motivated to have a bounce-back season. I think he would be the first to admit that last year didn\u2019t go the way he hoped it would. He\u2019s very motivated to come in and fit in and play well for us this season.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoopsrumors.com\/2026\/07\/pacers-gm-buchanan-talks-oubre-nance-centers-two-ways.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Hoops Rumors;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Hoops Rumors&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Hoops Rumors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Potter had a better season in 2025\/26 than Nance did, averaging 9.7 points and 5.0 rebounds in 19.3&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[7,95907,113,126,3866,3875,6,114,2957],"class_list":["post-794415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indiana-pacers","tag-basketball","tag-battled-injuries","tag-indiana","tag-indiana-pacers","tag-indianapacers","tag-nance","tag-nba","tag-pacers","tag-the-pacers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116973266751316687","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794415","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=794415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}