Brooklyn Nets at Indiana Pacers
· National Basketball AssociationPacers roll after halftime, beat the Nets 121-100
All-Star Tyrese Haliburton finished with 14 points and seven rebounds for the Pacers, overcoming a 6-for-18 shooting night, and his backup T.J. McConnell finished with 13 points. McConnell has scored in double figures 10 times in his past 17 games.
“Pascal was great,” Indiana coach Rick Carlisle said of Siakam, who made 11 of 22 shots, all six free throws and added three steals. “He was great on offense. Defensively, he had his best game.”
Cam Thomas had 22 points and eight rebounds for the Nets, who were outscored 82-42 in the paint in the teams’ first meeting of the season. Brooklyn shot 43% from the field, committed 21 turnovers and fell to 1-4 on its six-game road trip.
“Get 82 points in the paint, 17 offensive rebounds and 21 turnovers, that’s tough to beat a team like that,” Brooklyn interim coach Kevin Ollie said. “We can’t have 21 turnovers. Got to protect your paint. We got to keep people in front of us.”
Indiana trailed 30-25 at the end of the first quarter and led just 59-57 at halftime before blowing the game open in the second half, leading by 27 in the fourth quarter. The victory was the Pacers’ seventh of the season by a margin of at least 20 points.
“Just get to the paint and great things will happen,” Nesmith said. “When you get to the paint, you tend to score more. We put emphasis on that.”
Cam Johnson scored 14 points for the Nets, Dennis Schroder and 13 points and five assists, and Dorian Finney-Smith finished with 12 points. Brooklyn, in 11th place in the Eastern Conference standings, had gone 6-1 in its previous seven visits to Indiana.
“We got to do all the tough things,” Ollie said. “Did it first half. Basketball was beautiful. Second half we went into (isolation) basketball. We’re not good enough to do that.”
The sixth-place Pacers shot 48% from the floor and carried an 86-78 lead into the fourth quarter despite making only 4 of 26 3-point attempts to that point. Indiana won the rebounding battle 59-48 and prevailed for the third time in its past four games.
“I’m all about the team,” Siakam said. “I try my best to bring that energy every time. Physical (defense), continue to challenge, multiple efforts, guard, I thought we did that. I want to make sure I’m all about winning. That’s my focus.”
UP NEXT
Nets: Face the San Antonio Spurs on Sunday night in Austin, Texas.
Pacers: Host the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night.
Regular Season Series
IND leads series 1-0
Matchup Prediction
Recent Plays
4th 0.0 | End of Game | 100 - 121 | |
4th 0.0 | End of the 4th Quarter | 100 - 121 | |
4th 7.0 | Trendon Watford makes 1-foot two point shot | 100 - 121 | |
4th 13.1 | shot clock turnover | 98 - 121 | |
4th 37.1 | Trendon Watford makes free throw 2 of 2 | 98 - 121 |
Statistics
BKN | IND | |
---|---|---|
33-77 | FG | 50-105 |
42.9 | Field Goal % | 47.6 |
10-25 | 3PT | 6-30 |
40.0 | Three Point % | 20.0 |
24-31 | FT | 15-16 |
77.4 | Free Throw % | 93.8 |
45 | Rebounds | 50 |
12 | Offensive Rebounds | 17 |
33 | Defensive Rebounds | 33 |
18 | Assists | 21 |
8 | Steals | 13 |
3 | Blocks | 4 |
20 | Turnovers | 10 |
1 | Team Turnovers | 3 |
21 | Total Turnovers | 13 |
1 | Technical Fouls | 0 |
1 | Total Technical Fouls | 0 |
0 | Flagrant Fouls | 0 |
30 | Points Off Turnovers | 16 |
12 | Fast Break Points | 21 |
42 | Points in Paint | 82 |
18 | Fouls | 23 |
9 | Largest Lead | 27 |
Game Information
Location: Indianapolis, IN
Attendance: 17,009 · Capacity:
2023-24 Atlantic Standings
TEAM | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Boston | 64 | 18 | .780 | - | W2 |
New York | 50 | 32 | .610 | 14 | W5 |
Philadelphia | 47 | 35 | .573 | 17 | W8 |
Brooklyn | 32 | 50 | .390 | 32 | L2 |
Toronto | 25 | 57 | .305 | 39 | L4 |
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