Myles Turner helped spark Indiana’s elite defensive effort by scoring 16 points with eight rebounds and a block.
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If you’re new to daily fantasy basketball – maybe you started your DFS journey during the Major League Baseball or NFL seasons, or maybe basketball is your sport and this will be your first year giving it a shot – you’re in for a treat.
Pacers will snap LeBron James’s streak of 21 straight first-round playoff wins.
Tristan Thompson and Cedi Osman are apparently on the outside of the main rotation, with no clear role laid out. I’ve enjoyed every year competing for a championship.We’re looking for another run this year.
Lue plans to pair him with Clarkson, whom like Nance, has no previous playoff experience. “I think you get deflections, get a steal, get an easy basket”. Defensively, the Pacers are yielding 104.2 points per game against the opposing teams.
Coach Nate McMillian won’t get much love for coach of the year, but he has quietly done maybe the best coaching job of his career. James (27.5 points, 9.1 assists, 8.6 rebounds) and Love (17.6 points, 9.3 rebounds) have been the two most consistent options for Cleveland, and it falls on them to lead the team through an Eastern Conference that’ll give them issues.
And on Sunday, it became so ridiculous that the Cleveland Cavaliers superstar couldn’t help but laugh. “So our guys have to understand that we’re going to see the best (team) at their best”.
“The regular season is different”, Pacers point guard Darren Collison said.
“Just losing Ky, a number of us are going to have to pick it up on the offensive end, whether it be Bron, myself, everybody really”, Love said.
Cleveland finished just 50-32 this year despite stellar play from James.
“I don’t have friends on the court anyway”, Lance said after practice. The three-time champ is coming off perhaps his finest regular season, and there’s no reason to think he won’t be at his best in April, May and probably June.
So, this is LeBron James’ first loss in the NBA Playoffs’ first round in six years. But I don’t think that stuff will ever stop.
“He’s getting better”, Lue said of Korver, who also missed time recently following his brother’s death. “So it’s not like we were doing something special or so creative or we got some brand new defense”. As long as LeBron James is with the Cavs, they are the team to beat.
“LeBron, he says like it is”, Hill shared.
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After going nuts against IN in the regular season a year ago, the Pacers solved Kyle Korver IN 2017-18 – holding Cleveland’s sharpshooter to 21 percent shooting, including a 1-for-14 mark from deep.
