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NUGGETS 135, PACERS 120: Reaction with Mike Rich (2.101.2) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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  [SPEAKER_00]: You are listening to a special edition of the Pacers Report with Mike Rich, Mike's reaction to the Pacers 135-120 loss to the Denver Nuggets at the Field House on Wednesday evening.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Only on the Central Indian Sports Report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back to the Central Indian Sports Report Pacers fans.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: for a special edition of the Pacers Report.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mike Rich's reaction to the Denver Nuggets 135, the 120 victory over the Indiana Pacers in Indianapolis.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: We had our Pacers guy Mike Rich on the scene to cover the game for us and give us his insights.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And on the Pacers Report this week, we talked about how you're going to see an all-time great player, and you might see an all-time great performance.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You did, but it wasn't who we expected.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Now, man, it was a totally unexpected this, I thought I was going to see Jokech have phenomenal game and he had a great game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Great game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But Jamal Murray was just lights out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was exciting to watch it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I got to the point where I was like, okay, can he get sexy tonight?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I want to have been an uncool thing to see somebody score 60 points.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But it was, the effort is just, I don't know if it's effort or they just, it seems like the pace is just continuing to get, that, as soon as they get behind by 10, it's just over, they can't recover, they can get, they can scratch and crawl their way back, they can get down,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: 21, 23 points and they can scratch their way back to maybe getting down to eight and then the other teams just seem to go on a run.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They just don't have it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It looked like tonight just no one wanted to even take a shot didn't know who to get the ball to.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Generating much offense.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think TJ McConnell probably had the most effort most energy of anyone, but the team their plans was phenomenal.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Denver is just was stacked and They probably had the best game of the season tonight against the the Pacers.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Will all Murray like I said was it's out.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's talk about it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Mike the
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Two best performances I've ever seen live were a Charles Barkley game where I think you had 44 points and a lot of rebounds and a Dennis Rodman game where you had 32 rebounds but this has to rival it not just the 52 points 52 points is one thing 52 points on 25 shots is nuts.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Get five of them from the three point line, four for five from the foul line, 19 for 25 from the field.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Also at four assists, of course, most of the assists were coming from Yokech.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It went 13 of their 23 assists, but Jamal Murray was questionable coming into this game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Ian LaQuashball once he stepped on a floor.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: he looked like he was he came out like a missile man he just was just on on fire the old game he even got bounces on three pointers he hit the front of the ram and it bounced over and go in and it was just you were just in awe it was just like man his tooth got he he's pushing his eye get over and get 31 32 a half and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: So he could potentially get 50.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, my son was like, well, maybe I'll get, he's going to score over 40.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I said he's going to hit 50 and he ran to 50 too.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was pretty cool to see.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But again, you hate seeing it and get your own team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The other good thing is, is,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: tickets for a game to see a really great team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We're very reasonable.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Give it a go.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: tickets a night for 15, 17 dollars in the upper level.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I got just right above lower level.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We were front row on that second level club level or whatever 80 bucks, 85 dollars.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was a good time.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You can tell that the crowd is starting to
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  [SPEAKER_01]: to kind of get a little wore out from watching the Pacers' Luz when you're playing a team like Denver.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're just way overmatched.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They're an undermanned team.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I've sent her thinking during a game on like where's Madron?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: If he's wanting anything this year,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's not making himself worth much in some of these games, and he really, I don't even know what he scored, but he just looked non-existent.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: There was just no siakim was siakim.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He did his thing.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: No more.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That was nice game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Nym Hart had a nice game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: McConnell had a nice game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Shepherd had a really good game.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He took Shepherd out and Shepherd was hot.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We still need someone else to step up.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And again, no center play.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: not here.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think we had had none.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Probably had seven heaping lads here, but I also want to point out Mike that the Milwaukee bucks also have no center play.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Good.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, honestly, requested a trade today.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's how much miles turner and progress situation.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's doing exactly what
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  [SPEAKER_01]: we'll take it next year.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of silver linings with what is a horrible 418 star.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: You talked about Madher and I also think that Jaris Walker's been pretty disappointing.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He looks more controlled tonight with his offense.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: He's taken better shots.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: but he seems to have lost that magic that we liked the his instincts of play in the game he seems to be thinking it through too much now i don't know if there's just a moment of having the opportunity to be in a starting role is just too much for him and he's just not ready for it uh... you know he's fabulous in the glee
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And you see the lights out, Julie, you see the potential.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And that's where we saw it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And we saw spurts of it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But I just think a night tonight started.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: You're not going to get that same spark.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Your consistent players that we have are Siakum, McConnell, them hard and mismanaged.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Kneesmith, when he plays.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's really good about it.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And the best thing that happened to the Pacers tonight is Johnny Murphy got on the floor and he was back, so we're helping to see some growth and having this year and
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's what we got to hope for that the team just continues to grow and develop and mature and get better in areas that we are good at.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The areas we are really struggling at, we need to address.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: We definitely have not found a consistent center for
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  [SPEAKER_01]: this team, both centers just beat up on all of ours.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: They weren't making handles.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And defensively, I had to think how if I had a couple blocks, but Valetionus was dominating against our centers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He was.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's a big dude.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, so I thought he looked more like a freakin' professional wrestler than the three big basketball player.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: But when he, you look at him next to Isaiah Jackson.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He looks like he's got a foot on him, and he's so much wider than him.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And again, this team was just overmatched tonight.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: And for them, they only lose by 15, I was surprised.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I do think Denver took their foot off the pedal a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Yo, pitch got hurt and he went back to the locker room for a little bit.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Look like a chest injury or something.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Then he was wearing the back kind of the heat, the heat pad on the back.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what it was.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then they just kept him out.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And then when they kind of made a run in the beginning of the fourth,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He came back in and just put the game away.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He's got one of the most beautiful shots of real Is it?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And he's just so smooth.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: What about the pastors of the history?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Oh my gosh three quarters of the court passes were just dime passes.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, he's throwing a ball like Tom Brady Peyton Manning to Hall of Fame receivers.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: It was impressive to watch in it
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  [SPEAKER_01]: As a fan of the pace, it was like, it's nice to be able to go to a game and again, it wasn't extremely expensive for the seats that I had, it's still an entertaining product, it's just we're going to be taking it on the chin quite a bit this year.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's right.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of which, Mike, the Pacers go to Chicago on Friday for their next one, a pretty good Chicago team.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: It's also a game that they play well, they could win and then Monday at home against Sacramento.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: One of the few games I believe they're going to be favorite in this year actually got a few of those coming up when you get Sacramento and then Washington and then New Orleans and Milwaukee all coming to town.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: So some opportunities for some wins and
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  [SPEAKER_00]: look I think a pile in that block this is probably what's best for the franchise going forward but every win is a positive sign as well for a franchise that we know is headed in the right direction.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: The franchise is definitely headed in the right direction and this
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  [SPEAKER_01]: And I lost season is going to, we'll look our wounds at the end of the season, but we'll be definitely looking forward to the off season.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I think the draft is heavy and talent and I think the Pacers can definitely make some really good moves.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: I'd like to see something happen during the season before the trade deadline,
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  [SPEAKER_01]: or finding something that peace that we're missing is going to make us better in the future with who they're looking at in the dryer.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: I think should we get a sooner, please?
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  [SPEAKER_01]: Please.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: When you see the center play of Yoke and you're just like a grud.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He would look so good in a pastry uniform.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: He would look so good in a pastry uniform.
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  [SPEAKER_01]: and can you imagine a team that had someone this pastry team with that kind of talent and center?
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  [SPEAKER_00]: By the way, Janus is now available and the Pacers are one of the few teams with the assets to do it.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: only have cake.
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  [SPEAKER_00]: Thanks so much to Mike for joining us once again always love talking Pacers with him, have since the 80s.
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