Zach Lowe

This was one of my toughest ones because the line is very low, 36 and a half.

And I will say this for the Pacers.

And this is relevant on the flip side to some other teams we're going to talk about.

Yeah, they lost Halliburton.

Their whole identity is wrapped up in how he plays and particularly how he plays with the stretch center, who they also lost and are replacing with a mishmash of guys who are not quite that player.

All that said, this is a bunch of serious fucking dudes who care about the right things.

You will never hear anything on this, and a serious coach.

You will never hear anything on this team about this guy's hogging the ball.

There's a little Matherin, like, does he fit in the identity?

But, like, this guy's shirking his responsibility on defense.

This guy's not executing the scheme.

This guy's being selfish.

Like, there's just none of that on the team.

It's a team of serious adult basketball players

And that gets you pretty far in the East.

So that's my answer to like, I'm not sure that they're not going to be pretty good or whatever the double negative I just said was.

That said, I am going under on 36 and a half.

Wow, what a zag.

I think they lost so much of their identity.

Zag, zag.