Tony

I was wondering if him going for 83 would mess with him any kind of tiny bit.

And it's as good a theory as, I guess, any right now is that, you know, he kind of maxed out right there.

And it's taken him a while to get back to that rhythm.

The previous theory is always, well, Tyler Hero's back and they're hunting him.

And when he's on the court, they tend to be worse at defense.

I get that, too.

But you look at the box score.

Somebody named Kobe Brown had 18 points and somebody named Micah Potter had 21 points.

He crushed them in the first half.

He made everything.

And he had nothing to do with Tyler Hero because he's 6'11".

That game was 79-75 at the half.

Indiana, their demise has been precipitous.

Do they have the most injury minutes logged or the games lost to injury of anybody in the sport to go from the finals to as bad as they are?

Pacers should be fine, though.

I like what they did at the deadline.

It kind of reminds me of, like, remember that year David Robinson got hurt and just the Spurs were terrible and it ended up with Tim Duncan?

Yeah, and then they just went on their 20-year run.

I think the Pacers are built for a long time.

Charlotte got exposed a little bit over the weekend, I would say, when Boston goes in there without Jalen.