Steph Curry wearing Tyrese Haliburton’s signature shoe during his warmups tonight.

2-16

I love how much Benn Mathurin cares, man.

Damn, that was a very calm, casual potential game winner by Ingram with 0.6 seconds left to put Raptors up 2. Love the fight tonight but that stretch to end the second and start the third was so awful.

🎶BENNY MATH ITS HOW THE PACERS EVEN GOT THE LEAD🎶

After the end of second and start to the third quarter with a Raptors 25-1 run that felt like the Pacers were dead, the Ben(n)s are hitting 3s, TJ doing his middy thing. Pacers keeping it very close right now, just down 1 as Raptors take a timeout early in 4th.

Refs calling a delay of game which made the Pacers unable to challenge a call

Pascal Siakam with his fourth foul just before the half closes as Raptors take a 50-49 lead at halftime after Pacers didn’t score for final 3:53 of the first half. Just about as bad of an end to the quarter as they could have had.

Jarace Walker is 11 for his last 16 from deep in last four games including the first quarter tonight. 11 points in the first quarter

Dick is down and Walker is up with another triple. Pacers end the quarter on a 5-0 run and up 25-21 at end of the first.

Today, Ben Gibson stops by to take stock of big offseason Pacers topics a month in. Is center by committee working? Mathurin is scoring a ton, fit concerns? Nembhard's role, too big? Listen: locked-on-pacers-daily-podcast-on-the-indiana-pacers.simplecast.com Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezZr...

Pacers Playbook: I dove into the latest creative end-of-game play from Carlisle and his staff that gave Bennedict Mathurin a chance to tie with 10 seconds left, the similarities to the famous flag football play, the second option that wasn’t needed, & how defenses may adjust to these types of plays:

Had a few people tell me this is just the same flag football play the Pacers have run on many occasions over the last couple of years and while there are similarities & a desire to get the same shot, it’s got a ton of differences to that original. All discussed in the article. 👇

Pacers Playbook: I dove into the latest creative end-of-game play from Carlisle and his staff that gave Bennedict Mathurin a chance to tie with 10 seconds left, the similarities to the famous flag football play, the second option that wasn’t needed, & how defenses may adjust to these types of plays:

until next time

Full Rick Carlisle postgame

4 bench guys in double figures tonight Jarace 21 TJ 16 Huff 11 JRE 10 Benn and Drew both struggled to make shots in this one as they went a combined 7 for 27.

2-15. Tough one, first half was just really bad, too much to overcome. Good to see the fight in the second half that has been missing in some of these other losses recently. Great to see Jarace Walker play well tonight.

Great play design gets Benn Mathurin a great look at a 3 but it’s off No call on the rebound and Pistons get the ball up 3 with 8.2 seconds left.

Football play?

JARACE WALKER 5 for 5 from dee

God bless TJ McConnell

Pacers down 13 at the end of third. Signs of life for awhile there as they cut the lead to 5 but couldn’t finish the quarter. At least they earned free cheese curds. #YesCurds

JRE with a couple buckets inside after Drew and TJ make terrific passes to find him. Pacers now down just 7 with 3 mins left in the third.

Jarace Walker 5 for 5 now with 13 points. Really good to see him play well offensively.

Fantastic block by Pascal Siakam and the Pacers are now in the bonus after the foul on Cade on other end. Pacers cut the lead to 10 after Pascal goes 1 for 2.

Pacers down at halftime 70-55 plus whatever free throws Duren makes. Pistons shooting 58% from the floor, 16 FTs in the second quarter.

Some of these calls tonight are wild

Pistons are 22/33 (66.7%) overall and 6 of 10 from deep.

Every time Pistons do miss, they are getting a whistle. Clear landing zone foul from Pascal on that one. 57-48 Pacers trail with free throws coming on a flagrant foul

Andrew Nembhard perfectly pulls the chair on Cade but gets called for a foul

Both of those fouls at the rim felt like challengeable calls. Cade pushed off with his arm that wasn’t shooting and Matthews didn’t seem to touch Jenkins. Pistons get FTs instead and Huff goes out with 3 fouls.

Pacers down 35-32 after the first quarter. Plenty of positives but stops have been hard to come by with Pistons shooting 63%. Jarace Walker briefly gave the Pacers the lead on a pick six that he nearly fumbled before finishing the play. Siakam with 7. TJ and Huff with 6.

Pacers only down 20-23 despite Pistons making 66% of their field goals.

Indiana Pacers Stranger Things Night / 2025-26 City Edition Hype Video

“Johnnys situation is getting better. He’s starting to do more activity on the floor. I would think in the next couple of weeks sometime he could be back,” Carlisle says of Furphy when I asked.

it’s always good to be in the… oh my god it’s beautiful

Bennedict Mathurin has a bright spot in this dark season with his scoring reaching elite levels through his first five games. A dive into the hot start from @cowboyonpatrol.bsky.social: ipacers.com/2025/11/24/b...

Pacers schedule update: their home game against the Celtics on Dec. 26 will no longer air on Prime Video — replaced by 76ers at Bulls. It will tip off at 7pm and air on FanDuel Sports Network Indiana.

Bennedict Mathurin has a bright spot in this dark season with his scoring reaching elite levels through his first five games. A dive into the hot start from @cowboyonpatrol.bsky.social: ipacers.com/2025/11/24/b...

eviL PacersrecaP Live #6: -a disastrous spin on Tankathon -the brilliance of Andrew Nembhard -Hand out the TJs -Debut a stats segment, “What’s That Number?” where we give each other a number and try to guess the stat Full episode:

Taelon Peter seems to be enjoying his first G-League experience. This was his fourth 3-pointer of the first half.

Tyrese Haliburton and Johnny Furphy among the attendees at the Noblesville Boom game tonight.

Pacers not named Drew, Benn, Pascal, and TJ were a combined 6 of 32 (18.7%) from the floor on the night while those four shot above 60%.

Great show, love what you guys are doing

We opened the previous episode with a single Tankathon spin where Pacers got #1. It couldn’t have been any worse last night on the first spin to open the show:

Pacers not named Drew, Benn, Pascal, and TJ were a combined 6 of 32 (18.7%) from the floor on the night while those four shot above 60%.

eviL PacersrecaP Live #6: -a disastrous spin on Tankathon -the brilliance of Andrew Nembhard -Hand out the TJs -Debut a stats segment, “What’s That Number?” where we give each other a number and try to guess the stat Full episode:

Pacers down 15 with 1:12 left. We’ll be live and ready shortly after the buzzer.

Huff finally gets a three to fall. 1 for 7