Imagine if they end up with a top 3 pick, they could end up with a core of Siakam, Haliburton, Dybantsa/Peterson/Boozer with Nembhard, Nesmith, McConnell, Mathurin as starters/depth pieces. They have a Turner sized hole at 5 but that is a very solid core.

Definitely, especially because the Pacers have never outright tanked in my lifetime.

‘21-22 was the closest we came with a 25-57 record and I’ve always argued we could’ve leaned into the tank more that season and the following one. We’re seeing that now and I hope we get rewarded in the draft.

So we can almost guarantee Indiana will get the first pick right? That’s usually how this goes

Might as well get that record

They only won eight less games than the year they went to the finals (42 vs 34). There was a stretch from the mid to late 70s where aside from the healthy Bill Walton Blazers (briefly) there were just no great teams

Not much had to happen. Even though they made the Finals, the 1976 Suns only went 42-40.

Except Wilt was still around for 11 of the 64 Dubs’ 17 straight losses and they were 11-33 when he was traded.

Had a tougher time outscoring our opponents that year.

Could just be in season injuries

Bro out here edging in front of the whole world damn

Rick “Gooner” Carlisle

objectively funny

The Herman Cain special

Myles Turner is so out of place with the rest of that list

this Hali-led Pacers team really breaking all types of league records.

The 1964-1965 Warriors: Wilt Chamberlain was injured and missed half the season

Wilt played 73 games in 64-65. He was traded mid-season back to Philly (Warriors moved to SF that off season)

Can anyone pull up who was drafted by these teams the following year.

Wilt was around for 38 out of 44 games, 11 of the 64 Dubs’ 17 straight losses and they were 11-33 when he was traded.

Eh, kinda. This season has been a rough watch.

Nobody’s really taken a jump in Hali’s absence. Expected huge gains from Mathurin and Jarace Walker in-particular but no dice there (Mathurin’s been playing hurt tho).

Mathurin will probably get traded for a center but his value is low right now which doesn’t help.

There’s been a lot of talk of drafting Siakam’s successor - AJ makes a lot of sense as a big 6’9 forward.

Well if they’re this reliant on Hali they can’t afford to have him regress due to his injury

One of my biggest concerns is that we seem very injury prone.

Should be extremely concerned…

I think genuinely every has been injured but Siakam, most pretty badly. Ben’s playing hurt, obi’s getting foot surgery. It’s a shit show man

by sucking this bad without him we have silenced his haters 🙏

This season is proof he was UNDERRATED. What a player. 

Somewhere between late 2000 lebron and Chris Paul or Steve Nash

Yea if the cavs coulda actually made the finals in 2010 then lebron would be on the list twice and have the record (26 games).

In case anyone else was curious… the heatles dropped 17 from the win total but only had a high of a 4 game losing streak after lebron left wade and bosh.

Come on man he’s nowhere near that level lol

He’s the true MVP of the league. Indiana is loaded with quality roleplayers and a legit star in Siakam. They should not be this bad.

Yeah everyone was debating whether he’s a superstar but look what happens without him. I think his stats will always look less like a superstar’s because he’s unselfish with the ball, but that’s also how he turns decent teammates into absolute monsters

Looks like the longest losing streak they had that season was 7 https://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/CHI/1999_games.html

Lockout season. Less opportunity to slide that long and a weird year for everybody.

I literally have condiments in my fridge from that era. Not hard to remember 

They definitely weren’t planning to tank and still probably aren’t trying to. Every significant player on our team except for Siakam has missed extended time. They’ve just recently become semi healthy and now they’re missing mathurin and nembhard.

Idk, man. Maybe they are but they are also so insanely plagued by injuries and casual fans really underestimate Turner’s impact for the team especially in this context of Pacers having super big C problems. Turner not the best player out there for sure but numbers didn’t do justice when he played for Pacers. He enabled Pacers style of play a lot and therefore the replacement for him is very specific unless they adapt and make quite big adjustments.

They were legit, conference finals team the year before too