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00:00So let's talk about the Pacers tonight at the Fieldhouse.
00:03Big game, and they looked fantastic overall, I thought, in game one.
00:08Winning, pulling away, getting it done, handling their business.
00:13Do they do the same thing tonight now that they're getting game time back?
00:18But he's not a guy that I freak out about.
00:21I think he can score.
00:22I don't think he plays defense.
00:23I think he talks a lot with his no rings.
00:26What do you think happens tonight with the Pacers?
00:28Do they go up two, or do they have a problem?
00:30Because that number is so short at four.
00:33I think they win tonight, and I think they cover tonight.
00:37I'm not too worried about this game.
00:38I'm not too worried about the Bucs.
00:40They've got Giannis, and they've really got virtually nothing else.
00:43Lillard can shoot, but he's not a great defender.
00:45You look at the other four guys that started on Saturday afternoon,
00:49and between the other four, other than Giannis, they scored a total of 14 points.
00:54That is, and Kyle Kuzma was utterly inert.
00:59They didn't defend.
01:00They didn't do anything offensively that really bothered me.
01:04I think if Halliburton and Matherin had played worth a damn for the Pacers,
01:08that the Pacers would have won that game by 40.
01:10I just don't think that this Bucs team is very good other than Giannis
01:14and Lillard shooting the basketball, and so I think the Pacers rolled tonight.
01:18Last year, they took out the Knicks, and they went on a deep run,
01:23and I think some people thought that they were lucky.
01:27I actually think they're good, and I think they're relatively deep.
01:30I think they're kind of two at every position.
01:33I think they have a bench.
01:34I think they have a coach.
01:36I think they're capable of going on another run in these Eastern playoffs
01:41where everyone else has already handed it to the Celtics,
01:44and obviously they got their ass beat by them,
01:48but I think they're capable of going on another run.
01:50Do you?
01:51I do, and that's what makes you the smartest guy in this business
01:54because you understand that it's not about stars,
01:57and the Pacers don't have stars, but what they do have,
02:00they got about nine or ten guys who are really competent NBA playoff-level
02:05basketball players, and they can go out on any given night
02:08and beat any of these teams, and really, if you look at what happened
02:11last year in the playoffs, I think the Pacers played despite the fact
02:15that they got run out of the playoffs by the Celtics,
02:20but they played the Celtics as tough as anybody else did in the playoffs.
02:24I think they can go on a run, and while they did get kissed,
02:27they played against a couple of teams with some injury issues.
02:31Giannis couldn't play, and then you had some injuries for the Knicks,
02:35but this is a really good functional basketball team
02:38that doesn't rely on one guy to get it done.
02:41It relies on five, and that's the way basketball is meant to be played.