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The Pacers Report with Mike Rich: The Preseason Report (2.61.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

• 0:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back, Pacer's fans, to the Central Indiana Sports Report for today's Pacer's Report with Mike Rich, Mike and I are out at Forest Park in Nobleville, beautiful place in my got-in some golf before his meeting.
• 0:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: and we decided that meeting here would be the best way to do a pacer's report this week because you've been so busy.
• 0:29
  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back, Mike.
• 0:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, good to be back.
• 0:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it was nice.
• 0:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I've had pretty long week and had some opportunity to get out and have a few golf balls and uh, here at Fort Park.
• 0:42
  [SPEAKER_01]: So, really, yeah.
• 0:43
  [SPEAKER_01]: It is a great place to sit and meet.
• 0:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: It might hear some kids playing in the background and things like that, but uh,
• 0:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's called Ombeons.
• 0:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: Ombeons is great, it's nature, leaves are changed and it's beautiful.
• 0:56
  [SPEAKER_00]: It really is a beautiful time of year, man.
• 0:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's been beautiful weather around here for like three months.
• 1:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't know what that's going to mean for this winter.
• 1:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be bad.
• 1:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Like an iron here today to talk about the paces, they have had three preseason games.
• 1:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Since Mike and I last talked to Pacers, next week, probably will record it this weekend.
• 1:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Next week, we will have our official season preview where every one of our contributors will make their prediction on what's gonna happen.
• 1:27
  [SPEAKER_00]: They'll all come on, give a story line, and we'll have a nice long podcast where all we talk about is the Pacers, which we do so much here on the Central Indiana Sports Report Mike.
• 1:36
  [SPEAKER_00]: The Pacers record I don't even know I can't even turn one two and one.
• 1:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: They won the Oklahoma City game in Okay, I couldn't even remember because I at the end of the game I wasn't watching anymore because it was a bunch of guys They're probably aren't even gonna be on the boom it was guys that I just
• 1:53
  [SPEAKER_00]: The other two games, we have got a pretty good look at the starters at least through part of the second half and they've looked really good.
• 2:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: The one thing I know for sure Mike is that Aaron Neesmith, Andrew Nimhard, Ben Madrin and Pascal Siakim are all about to have their best seasons of their careers.
• 2:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I agree.
• 2:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that Madrin is going to definitely...
• 2:18
  [SPEAKER_01]: be a major contributor this year.
• 2:20
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean he showed it the other night.
• 2:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: I mean he's got to be there leaving scoring.
• 2:23
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, yeah, there's no reason he shouldn't be there leaving score.
• 2:27
  [SPEAKER_01]: He can create a shot.
• 2:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he's gotten better this year.
• 2:30
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to take this opportunity and he's gonna knock it out of the park.
• 2:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if he's not deleting score, it's probably bad news for the Pacers, but if he's not deleting score, he's probably Pascal Siakim who in the preseason has just looked, locked in every bit of an all-star, every shot he's putting up looks true, they're all going in, he's rebounding, he's getting in passing lanes, he's passing, I think we're about to see a prime Pascal Siakim this season, and they're going to need him too.
• 3:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: is absolutely going to have to have a great season for us to be where we want to be at the end of the season.
• 3:11
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think just the changes that we came into this season with with Haliburton being out miles leaving to Milwaukee.
• 3:19
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a different team.
• 3:22
  [SPEAKER_01]: make up and I think that, you know, people are going to step up in different areas.
• 3:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: The one thing we know is whatever Rick Carlisle's given as a team, he's going to get the best out of him.
• 3:36
  [SPEAKER_01]: So definitely looking forward to for the changes.
• 3:39
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm looking forward to seeing how good matter and really can be as that number one scoring.
• 3:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, so much of the season is going to come
• 3:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 3:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: I agree.
• 3:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: And I think there's going to be a lot of opportunity for a lot of other players to step up this year too and really looking forward to seeing that and just to continue to watch this team.
• 4:04
  [SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately, at one position, we're having guys already having to step up.
• 4:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: with Cam Jones not playing yet, and now the news that TJ McConnell's out probably for a month, we now have a weakness at point guard that was a strength the last year, and they went out and got Cameron Payne.
• 4:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that's the answer.
• 4:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: I'm hoping that the answer is Quentin Jackson.
• 4:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's time for him to get a chance to see if he can play the point in the NBA.
• 4:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's a better option than Cameron Payne, I think.
• 4:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: he's been a really really good player in the g league and he has looked really good so far in this preseason and i think he's earned a spot and i think he's earned some playing time if cam jones and tj macano are not available
• 4:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: 100 percent, you know, I think that is one thing that the Pacers do really well is with their GLE team and utilizing those players to bring them up.
• 5:08
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I did about the boom.
• 5:12
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited about the boom, but I don't know who's going to be coming up into the boom if we're going to be needing some of the players from our GLE
• 5:25
  [SPEAKER_00]: And I think the other concern is that Senator sure doesn't look like through three games in the preseason that Isaiah Jackson, Jay Huff, and James Wiseman, that rotation doesn't look like the answer to me, give Carl Isle some time I guess, but that's the other concern is the front line doesn't look very good.
• 5:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's still early.
• 5:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, Isaiah Jackson was out the entire year last year.
• 5:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hopefully get his legs under him.
• 5:53
  [SPEAKER_01]: He gets up to game speed and he looks lost and only does his fall.
• 5:57
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I agree.
• 5:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he is lost right now and this is a team that's built for speed and they're going to get up and down the court and I said he's going to either have to
• 6:10
  [SPEAKER_01]: either after get it together and be able to run with us or, you know, they're gonna have to look at doing something different.
• 6:18
  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, zero points on Tuesday night and the loss to the spurs.
• 6:22
  [SPEAKER_00]: And again, the Pacers played very well in that game when they took the starters out, I believe they were up.
• 6:28
  [SPEAKER_00]: Nine, maybe six somewhere in there.
• 6:31
  [SPEAKER_00]: And they had played really well, particularly the guys who,
• 6:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: We know we can count on Matherin had 31 points, Siakum had 17, Nimhard, 11 points, 8 assists, Nice Myth, 9 points in limited action, Isaiah Jackson, 0 points on 0 of 2, 16 minutes.
• 6:51
  [SPEAKER_00]: But let's talk about Jared's Walker, because he scored 12 points.
• 6:54
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's finally the only problem he's had in the pre-season's been scoring.
• 6:58
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's his yoga percentage has been awful.
• 7:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: Everything else he's doing is pretty good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: 12 points the other night.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Three rebounds.
• 7:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: He only had one assist, but he's looked really good.
• 7:10
  [SPEAKER_00]: Passing the ball.
• 7:11
  [SPEAKER_00]: The other night when he started, like I said, he had troubleshooting.
• 7:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: He used three for ten, one for six from behind the three point line.
• 7:21
  [SPEAKER_00]: You saw some of the passes he made in that game and it's pretty easy to imagine him fitting in with with this team.
• 7:28
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he was dropping some dimes and definitely another one.
• 7:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's just, I think this is a big year for Jaris Walker.
• 7:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: He has a great opportunity to get in to the rotation with the Pacers and I'm really hoping that he plays well.
• 7:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: the scoring will come.
• 7:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: I believe he will be able to score, but it's really good to see, you know, the defense and the passing and the defense.
• 8:01
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's really the stats might not show but he gets his hands on a lot of balls.
• 8:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: He gets him passing lanes.
• 8:06
  [SPEAKER_00]: He's a disruptor.
• 8:08
  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the passes that he had the other night he started by making a nice defensive play, getting the rebound
• 8:19
  [SPEAKER_00]: for a zobi top in your right it was obi top in
• 8:24
  [SPEAKER_00]: So a lot of promise there, speaking of the rotation, Johnny Furfi continues to be in it.
• 8:30
  [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, it's just a preseason.
• 8:32
  [SPEAKER_00]: We don't know what exactly what's going to happen.
• 8:34
  [SPEAKER_00]: And there are some things about his game that it's going to be.
• 8:37
  [SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be rough for a little while.
• 8:38
  [SPEAKER_00]: I think for him, but just to have him in the rotation of his age and his level of experience is really exciting for the future.
• 8:45
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he had another one, Mike.
• 8:47
  [SPEAKER_00]: He had another absolute poster dunk.
• 8:50
  [SPEAKER_00]: And just for that purpose, I hope he gets some playing done.
• 8:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: I hope he gets playing time.
• 8:56
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think he's going to be a fan favorite.
• 8:59
  [SPEAKER_01]: I know the I know the Pacers organization is really high on him as well, you know, and and now the one is just going to get the opportunity this year to continue to improve and
• 9:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: I'm excited for Johnny Furpy.
• 9:15
  [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think he would be in the rotation at the beginning of the preseason, but he had a good summer and he's done all right and he's first three games.
• 9:25
  [SPEAKER_01]: So he's making a case for himself and the dunk set kid has is just pretty fantastic.
• 9:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if he'll be in the
• 9:40
  [SPEAKER_00]: Victor Women Yamma is gonna be a problem.
• 9:42
  [SPEAKER_00]: He had won the other day where it didn't leave his feet against the Pacers.
• 9:46
  [SPEAKER_00]: And he just takes the ball out and if you don't stop him, he can be stopped because he still doesn't have incredible handles yet, but once he does man, there's going to be just no way to stop that guy, and apparently he's grown since the season in the last year, and he looks unstoppable, but this is the Pacers report, we go back to San Antonio, and again, I want to reiterate, the Pacers led that game when they pulled the starters, and against the spurs who,
• 10:14
  [SPEAKER_01]: look like they're going to be a handful man and but i but i think the pacers game offensively i mean if they're going to move fast i know it's only a few steps to go ninety feet or whatever it is limbiniana but still i i think we're fast enough to get out and go and it's going to be trouble for him to keep up and
• 10:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: But now I think the spurs are going to be better and they're going to continue to get better as as as as that kid continues to evolve and grow.
• 10:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: And 27 points in 25 min of half the base here and he was injured most the last year, right?
• 10:50
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.
• 10:51
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yep.
• 10:52
  [SPEAKER_01]: This is really his second year in the NBA.
• 10:55
  [SPEAKER_00]: And if you get a chance to watch the game.
• 10:57
  [SPEAKER_00]: Till and Harper who was the second pick in the draft looked really good as well so you might want to get a look at him But what you're gonna want to see most of all is the Pacers even if they don't play their starters, which is likely in the final game of the preseason
• 11:13
  [SPEAKER_00]: we're still going to see some action from johnny fur feed jeres walker been madden maybe he played with the the other night with the when the starters were out so we're still going to find them to out some things on when is that right eight on 17 Friday the 17th at eight o'clock my good you want to see in that final preseason game from the pacers
• 11:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: I definitely want to see as come out of that game clean.
• 11:45
  [SPEAKER_01]: No injuries.
• 11:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: No injuries, of course.
• 11:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: But no, I want to see Murphy continue to see where he's going to be at.
• 11:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: And if he's going to get a spot in this rotation or not, a little more Jairs Walker, hopefully he's evolving with his, you know, the scoring gets a little better.
• 12:04
  [SPEAKER_01]: Clinton Jackson, I want to see if Clinton Jackson can run with the big boys.
• 12:09
  [SPEAKER_01]: And then I want to see who's going to be that starting center, you know, Isaiah Jackson hasn't had a strong outing.
• 12:16
  [SPEAKER_01]: He's played a few minutes in all the games and yeah, he's had more files than minutes or yeah, and if he's going to file out, we need to know who's going to be backing him up.
• 12:26
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think looking at wise men and huff and determining, you know, who's going to fill that role, what's going to be our best option.
• 12:35
  [SPEAKER_01]: So I think this is a good opportunity.
• 12:38
  [SPEAKER_01]: many starters the spurs will play and if that if you know when he's gonna play and if they get any chance that defend him See how they do against him as well.
• 12:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: What I'm really excited for is Let's come out of this game clean and looking forward to the 23rd Can't wait for the 23rd kid way to see what this team has I still say 55 wins, but we will talk more about that
• 13:03
  [SPEAKER_00]: Early next week sometime, Mike.
• 13:05
  [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you so much for your time.
• 13:07
  [SPEAKER_00]: Look forward to talking to a lot of pastors with you in the upcoming months.
• 13:12
  [SPEAKER_00]: Look forward to it.
• 13:14
  [SPEAKER_00]: Also Friday is our big college football day.
• 13:16
  [SPEAKER_00]: We will have an IU Michigan State Preview, a Purdue Northwestern Preview, an Eric and Ryan Robinson's Previews and predictions.
• 13:26
  [SPEAKER_00]: We also will have our Colts Chargers Preview, Mike the Colts are five and a one.
• 13:32
  [SPEAKER_01]: That's fantastic.
• 13:33
  [SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing to believe it is so awesome to see them do well.
• 13:40
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, a big test this weekend and looking forward to seeing how they play the chargers.
• 13:46
  [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're healthier, too.
• 13:47
  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think it's the game of the week is not maybe of the weekend.
• 13:54
  [SPEAKER_01]: Monday, I think, has a couple different couple games that are all bigger, but that
• 14:03
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• 14:28
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• 14:54
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