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00:00exhilarating going to disappointing to hopeful to at times downright embarrassing Bulls have seven games left to try to garner
00:06some value
00:08And figure out what's to come in the offseason Pacers win the tap
00:12They're dealing with a slew of injuries tonight as well. We'll update you on those
00:17Here in this opening period Jay Huff to Pascal Siakam though Siakam has been the staple
00:22He has led the Pacers in scoring in all three of their wins over the Bulls this year
00:26I mean he's a guy that doesn't miss games very durable player throughout his career
00:34He is the man who's got boozele ish to start now. It's huff on a switch on modest
00:41Jones on the attack pull up over Thompson that won't go and it's tapped a huff boozele is stolen away
00:49Now who say late for three?
00:52I
00:54Will the Bulls take the lead on?
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01:01six fives
01:02Here is Jackson that's in and out boozele is the rebound. There should be a heavy dose of modest boozele
01:08ish tonight
01:09With giddy out and he takes Thompson to the cup muscles through and draws the contact
01:16It's a good sign right there for honest taking that ball to the paint but it's a smaller defender
01:30Josh giddy of course has had that hamstring injury this season that kept him out for a good chunk of
01:35the year
01:35He's dealt with some tightness as of late in that same hamstring so
01:39Being precautious and keeping him out of the lineup here tonight
01:46He's definitely don't want him, you know, limping through the rest of the season, right?
01:51He's had some hamstrings been an issue
01:54large part of the season
01:56And we know how important he is to what the bulls are trying to do in the future
02:02Giddy going into
02:04The second year of that four-year deal he signed next year. That'll be your two of four
02:10Here's Siakam
02:11Launching a three that won't go
02:13And it's tapped out of bounds. It'll stay at this end of the floor for the Pacers
02:20Make sure the patients will get Halliburton back
02:22They'll get Zubach back
02:24They'll have to be a different team and who knows they're also to be playing in the lottery, too. Absolutely
02:29They may be able to grab
02:30Can you imagine if they grab one of those
02:32Top three with what they got coming back all the reinforcements they got coming back next season?
02:38Jackson was out of bounds it'll be a turnover so the
02:42Pacers have a league low 17 wins this year, but that means they're right in the thick
02:46For the best odds to get into the top four and to get to the number one pick potentially
02:52Bulls will see the wizards a couple of times in this final seven game stretch as well
02:56Yabusele taking some contact from Huff who squares the rebound
03:00Bulls and Bucks are right next to each other in those lottery standings as well
03:05Jay Huff strong spin he's had a great season Huff has
03:09Listen he is an underrated center in this game he can block shots he can shoot the three he's tough
03:18Sexton working hard on Jackson
03:21Thought he may have been contacted instead do zealous drives into the teeth of the defense and Thompson picks it
03:27away
03:29And on the attack Jackson
03:33Seems to look much different without Josh Gideon
03:38Where do you go when the offense gets a little stagnant sexton has been a good
03:42player for that lately just with the way he has scored when the offense gets a little stagnant
03:47Ocoro trying to stick with Siakam who's got the nice mid-range game working that length and size and a
03:53smooth jumper
03:5530 points 11 rebounds in the victory over Miami on Sunday a rare win for the Pacers
04:01There is Yabusele taking it in on Huff
04:04He backed that time he backed Huff down got the shot that he wanted
04:10Pacers have won 17 games this year three of those wins have come against the Bulls couple of them in
04:15very close fashion
04:17Huff he can shoot it and he does he's had a great season from the outside along with as Stacy
04:22mentioned his excellent shot blocking
04:25Very much like boo zealous both guys with over 100 blocks and 100 threes this year
04:31Jones good defense by Thompson forcing a difficult pass and out of bounds
04:36Right now indiana's being a little bit more physical at the guard position they're knocking guys around and
04:42Kind of used to seeing indiana do that yeah, they're very physical team especially against the bulls. They they always
04:47come to play physically
04:49They're looking for their first season sweep of chicago since the
04:5319-20 season
04:56That is going to rim good for kobe brown
04:59former los angeles clipper who came over that benedict matherin
05:03He beats a zubats trade he'll get a whistle and a foul against indiana here on jackson
05:09The brady should uh mark brady our producer just pointed out it sounded like i was talking about the year
05:1419-20 so i should clarify that it was the 2019-2020 season was the last time the pacers
05:21Swept the bulls that was part of a 10-game win streak patient wouldn't even wouldn't even around
05:26They were not around yeah the nba with the nba was was not around at that point
05:31i figured brady i figured it was contextual but i understand where you're coming from my friend
05:36all good charles nayspins was dropping
05:38in the peach basket
05:42here in canada we've come up with this new game called baskets ball oh my goodness
05:49there is siakam there's that mid-range spot he is so good from the elbow and what a feathery touch
05:54suddenly
05:55it's a nine-point lead and a timeout for billy donovan
05:58siakam picking up right where he left off against the bulls in the last meeting he's got
06:02six in the early going tell you what he's one of the best in the mid-range game adam
06:06he's up to almost six assists in this same stretch and
06:11trey is about as humble of a player as they come guys but he
06:14even admits that he's on a little bit of a roll here and he said
06:16my focus is on closing this season strong and trying to help us
06:20impact winning any way i can
06:23that's been the case for trey for a while buzellis misfires a three but he'll stay at this end of
06:27the
06:27floor jones was rolling offensively he's been in one of the best stretches offensively of his career
06:37and listen he's been solid since he's got here since last year day one
06:42dillingham took his spot sexton missed badly but got his own missed off the side of the backboard and
06:47puts it back in that one like he threw a lob off the backboard he threw it off the side
06:51of the
06:51backboard let's rack up an assist for the basket there
06:58jackson out it is jones in that is cam jones rookie second round pick oh that was way off target
07:05well and one thing with with josh getting being out right now is the bulls get a chance to to
07:10see
07:11sexton play tenement as the point guard we also get a chance to see dillingham play a little bit
07:15of the point guard position and more minutes for those guys wayward pass though by buzellis
07:20it is cam on the run out seven points off the turnovers already three giveaways by the bulls
07:28leading to three baskets okoro had it knocked away by the lengthy siakam okoro's got a really tough
07:34assignment with pascal's on him there is buzellis strong drive and a left-hand finish see one of the
07:43things too when you see his team play is that you don't have that you really miss who's little post
07:49up present that he did bring everything is perimeter oriented you know the guy didn't even throw the ball
07:55down there too you know richards when he's there you can do it you know uh the opposite is more
08:00of a pick
08:00and pop guy but they don't really have that guy right now that you know when things get going
08:05they're having a hard time on the perimeter they can go inside who's that guy for him so it's good
08:10to see buzellis being able to initiate a nissan drive to the hoop shop nissanusa.com again he just
08:17he gets to the rim and he can get that consistently and become a three-level score next year
08:24oh it's the goal thompson picks up his second foul ben shepard is in third year out of belmont
08:31but ben shepard like he's been in the league a long time well he's already graduated to the freddie
08:36mercury mustache which i think you saved you saved that for as freddie mercury did for later in your
08:42career yeah ben has already been has already leaned into that look which don't get me wrong that's a
08:47that's a very strong strong very strong mustache man shepard yeah that's why i say he looks older
08:51than what he actually is here's dillingham working against taylan peter those two guys look like
08:57children out there right now they are very young and snuck into the bin obi toppin's back he's healthy
09:04now the three won't go remember he broke his foot in the first three games of the year sexton to
09:11drive
09:11in the banker a banged banker off of the glass to score that one
09:18you got taylan peter is a two-way player rookie second round pick he played at liberty last year
09:23was their conference player of the year jones is out there he was an all-american at marquette
09:28there's taylan peter with a nice strong smooth shot from three hey there's shooters everywhere baby
09:35well that's something the bulls desperately will need in the offseason they will
09:40absolutely need shooters sexton a poro speaking of three there's a coro knocking one down he's been
09:48better as of late from the three-point line look at him go right down to the post to bang
09:53away against
09:53siakam on defense siakam into that mid-range and turn around short
10:05he's four of six from the field at the early going off to a nice start
10:10leonard miller is out there off the bench with the spotty yabu saleh sexton to the mid-range
10:16nice down that jumper he's off to a good start as well three of five with six points you see
10:21how
10:21see how he was able to get by his man and then stop on the down and pull up
10:25for a wide open jump shot for about 15 feet that's a nice move by collin sexton
10:31there's shepherd for three rebound leonard miller is coming off the best scoring game of his career
10:3821 against san antonio the other night here he is off the slip rumbling inside and shepherd collides
10:46with him and miller will draw the foul there shepherd that old man's strength right now
10:54he said strictly coming from the mustache is the question right there
11:02on that replay didn't look at that hard i don't think so either oh my goodness oh that's
11:07oh that's there's another mustache gosh that's a strong one as well oh my goodness that's like
11:12hard pulled bar was oh look at gracho marks a little bit right there yeah that had that
11:17you got the glasses on too that's perfect that's perfect i feel like a bit uh
11:21we need to have early early 20th century comedy right now look look side by side
11:28to groucho marks and freddie mercury right now two very famous artists
11:35that's a that's a strong mustache a pair of them right there a pair of drawing stashes
11:40that's a magnum pi look sellick in the 80s of course
11:45miller knocks down one of two pulls back with a four after trailing by 10.
11:52shepherd back door pass miller great cut by shepherd really nice sharp cut there
11:59here comes dillingham accelerating
12:06miller
12:07he's going back to going to his left drop step yeah layup
12:11dillingham mid-range jumper knocks it down and the bulls implementing a little bit more of the
12:15mid-range off the bounce and that's i think that's what what you talked about with modest
12:20doesn't necessarily have to run plays for him to get mid-range shots but in his isolations he can
12:25get to that spot on the floor that's a nice deadly area to be able to get good for him
12:29well adam
12:29those are high percentage shots you know you shouldn't contested threes those are not high
12:34percentage shots williams picked off by peter siakam to shepherd wide open three that's good
12:43another one bites the dust apparently right there back up seven go the pacers
12:56jones gets to the spot and puts that another one of those two point baskets that casey was talking
13:03about his efficiency from that area the floor has been excellent
13:07toppin uses that strength to get miller out of the way
13:11and that's where leonard miller is also going to have to build up his body a little bit to bang
13:15away because obi toppin looks like a grown man who's been in this league for a little while
13:20oh we're going to see mac mcclung g-league's all-time scorers put up a pair of 50 pieces in
13:25the
13:25g-league this year oh trey jones again and they glide mark brady wanted me to say that we should
13:31stop calling him trey and start calling him deuce because he's so good around the rim well he's got
13:35oh he's got over 80 you know field goals in the in the paint in the paint yep in the
13:40month of march
13:41alone he had a phenomenal month over 60 percent from two-point range very efficient from that area on
13:48the floor and trey jones halliburton's been out all year zubats recently suffered a rib fracture so they
13:53shut him down neesmith nimhar walker furphy mcconnell are all out siakam with the rainbow flips it in and
14:01draws the foul he's able to put it in patrick williams commits the foul and sent siakam to the
14:06stripe he's already got double figures in this first quarter
14:12he's the constant stace as you said well i mean he's he's a guy that's durable he's a guy that's
14:18going to
14:19show up every night and play and he's going to be one of the guys that helps you resurrect
14:23what they have is that you went for the finals a year before a lot of injuries you lose your
14:27star
14:27player in halliburton he's still here he's still playing every night putting up extraordinary numbers
14:33doesn't seem to be slowing down
14:38there's a pressure from deal trey jones in the backcourt they got top into the corner over there
14:44now siakam oh this is the three badly that's a rare brick from siakam that sounded bad when they hit
14:55that
14:55glass so mac mcclug is out there with dillingham jones miller and williams this is about as small of a
15:02lineup as the bulls are going to put out there williams into siakam and taylan peter came over
15:07with the help side defense for the steal dillingham's got topping pacers have the size
15:15of that matchup shepherd what a move when he gets to the other side of the rim he went behind
15:20the back
15:21and then reverse see that's where you when you look at these guys coming off the bench getting extended
15:25minutes down see that's what you have you got to steal these guys can play they just got guys in
15:30front of
15:30oh he drops it off for a siakam dunk oh shepard's feeling it in the early going
15:39like he just turned around looked at siakam said oh you're my best friend and he just dropped it off
15:47i'm gonna drop in more queen lines than you realize stays i made stacy go speechless just now
15:52i made stacy go speechless i'm feeling good right now
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16:11another bulls timeout two minutes to play in this opening period and the pacers have taken a 12-point
16:16lead but dillingham was convinced that he was going to take that shot from the start of that possession
16:22and that one goes through the hands of the pacers Jalen Slauson the two-way player now yuki kawamura
16:32getting set to check in as well so he and mcclough will be on the floor together the g-league
16:36studs
16:38he wasn't a proud response for yuki
16:42he's going you can go settle it down now
16:49so you got jones kawamura and mcclung all out there small backcourt bruce ellis and lachlan
16:56olbrick so really as you said stace you're getting a lot of developmental minutes right now
17:00and you're going to make some mistakes in that as well there's an offensive foul
17:05lachlan olbrick on a moving screen
17:10well right now the players that are out there who are not used to playing these extended minutes
17:13just want to play under control yeah don't don't try to do too much he traveled
17:19there's shepard on the attack lives to the cup oh he went bang it into the stanchion there
17:24shepard trying to show indiana like i need to be in the rotation
17:29jones with the left hand he flipped that one up
17:38in the end it's got 16 assists on 17 main shots shepard off target there
17:47who's ellis to cross the drive and the dunk
17:49oh he just went right behind
17:52near a steal by kawamura mcclung takes it and it's a goal there you go the windy city bullion on
17:57attack
17:58windy city backcourt doing big things at the big league level right there good good hustle right there
18:04nice dunk by modest in quick turnaround watch boom right there who ripped him go
18:13nice play by those two
18:17jay huff jumped the gun he came in too early so they're gonna have to bring top and back
18:22inside of a minute so mac mcclung getting an opportunity a second game with the
18:27bulls this season of course played for the pacers for a short cup of coffee as well
18:37play just nine nba games coming into this season this is the second nba game with the bulls this year
18:44nice spin better block oh there we go top it got denied by olbrick
18:50kawamura slings it to jones now mcclung rotate to yuki against the small garden peter
18:55oh nice pass off to jones what a pass yuki it's an 8-0 run right now got a little
19:04energy infused here now
19:06took less than a minute to go from down 14 to down six
19:11there is shepherd
19:14into topping good help by matt mcclung cross court it is jones off target on the three
19:21boozellis the rebound still time for bulls
19:24five seconds left the high scoring first quarter boozellis gotta shoot it
19:29jones will hoist it and boozellis looks to the bench and he never realized where the clock was that is
19:35a mistake on modest's part they literally just mouth to billy i didn't month giddy had
19:4011 and a half assists per game in the month of march the second most by any bull all time
19:45got to go back to the second month of the organization's existence when those numbers
19:51were put up by guy rogers four on the shot clock kawamura to the wing it is boozellis
19:57and nice job by mcclung to get in there to take it away knocked away by slosson for a moment
20:04but
20:04clung ends up with a three looking to draw the foul olbrick tried to save it with a lumbering play
20:09and now shepherd comes back thompson saved it
20:19here's huff handoff jackson olbrick put a body into him that time
20:26he forces the crack yep forces the pass out shepherd to jackson contested three won't go
20:31nice possession by the bulls defensively hey and you saw dillingham just extended his hand
20:36didn't try to block it just made a few over an extended hand
20:40it is boozellis over huff off target out of bounds to the pacers
20:48got mullet modest out there tonight he kind of got rid of the sideburns got more of a mullet look
20:53going
20:53right now
20:59travel jackson hits a three thompson beggar park thompson it's so wide open yeah
21:04he was wide open in the corner thompson who made his nba debut this season
21:09of course was in the g league with the bulls for a little while in the zone right now let's
21:13see how
21:13the bulls attack it dillingham trying to shoot him out of it
21:16oh my god dillingham just pulled up from deep
21:21second field goal he's got five points off the bench kawamora hassling thompson
21:28huff
21:31sets the screen for a jackson curl
21:34into olbrick draws the file out lachlan that'll be the second
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22:17pacers started the year six and 31.
22:20they had a 13 game losing streak at one point that set the new franchise record
22:26had a solid stretch into the all-star break went 500 and then just two and 18 in their last
22:3120 games
22:32they just snapped an 11 game home losing streak with the win on sunday against miami oh dillingham
22:39who's feeling it stepped back three that time with some confidence on the high high release too
22:45i told you it's all about confidence in this league you get confidence on nice moves by jackson
22:50you get confidence you know you got the green light you know you go out there and play
22:54you're gonna go out here play free i mean that's about as smooth of a shot and as high of
22:59a release
23:00as i can remember from dillingham who's ellis through the foul like remember he's got that cyst in his
23:06wrist that's been bothering him so it's nice to see that release look good he's two for two for the
23:10three-point line he's gonna handle right there he's just shaking and making he just raises up
23:15that's the dillingham you saw in kentucky you know just confident with his handles confident what he's
23:20gonna do with the basketball and tonight the handcuffs are off you know get he's out this
23:25is opportunity to play bill he's gonna play a bunch of guys they get a chance to get a good
23:29look at these
23:30guys and we've seen him he's had confidence in these stretches that he's been able to play just like any
23:35any young player isn't really his rookie year both him and leonard miller's rookie season
23:40and just like if it was really his rookie season there'll be ups and downs as we saw modest last
23:45year ups
23:46and downs but when you see the potential that they have you've got to be encouraged
23:53rosellis already six rebounds with giddy out he's got eight points as well these are back within five
24:01here comes huff
24:04powemura sticking with thompson on that cut
24:09slosson drives it slosson powers into miller the flip wouldn't go over at the rebound and he looks to
24:15push the pace well dillingham is looking for yuki but kobe brown knocks it out 19 to shoot you
24:23like you was like throw up to the rim yeah don't throw it down let me tell you let me
24:26take off he was
24:27like point thought to the rim
24:35i would love to see a spud web moment from you zealous snow rebound jackson modest struggling from
24:41the outside so far
24:45there's kobe brown
24:49late first round pick by the clippers a couple years ago he finds huff that's a three
24:53go go go go that's his second three already he's three for three from the field two of those shots
24:59from outside dillingham tough twist at the rim out of bounds stays at this end
25:09i'll tell you what though he's fun to watch he's got that quick burst sure does
25:24that one was deflected by slosson who saves it for indiana another bulls turnover they're 10th
25:30already pump an offensive rebound off the thompson miss slosson takes and hits
25:37the bulls have given it away 10 times leading to 19 indiana points
25:44olbrick swatted by slosson slams the door shut wow he came out of nowhere socon player of the
25:53year a few years ago defensive player of the year in the southern conference the year prior
25:58oh you see right there he knows how to play defense he challenged it
26:02a short stint with the sacramento kings after he was a second round pick
26:07now in his second year in the league after a stint in the g-league with orlando
26:12olbrick tough catch dives so does thompson he saved it to jackson
26:18bulls turned over yet again humps another three
26:22he and modest bruselis are two of the four players in the league with over 100 threes and 100 blocks
26:28and this has been a revelatory season for the big man jay huck in his fifth year out of virginia
26:34yuki nola modest trying to answer and dies good pass by yuki
26:40looked everybody off and he knew exactly where modest was
26:45he's got three of the team six assists
26:52there's huff looking for another three oh man well you remember the game we had early in the season
26:58scored the first 14 points 14 points of the game against the bulls in the first meeting this year
27:04kawamura finds miller past huff kick out for olbrick he fakes the three and drives
27:10lumbers inside twists it out wide open dillingham olbrick taps it in
27:18good offensive rebound that time good good inside position
27:24he's got three offensive rebounds so far he's got a couple of baskets off those putbacks
27:29oh jay huff that's the first miss of the night right into the hands of brown
27:37that's a strong kid he's well built at six seven 250 pounds it is fifth career nba start tonight and
27:44then could not corral that near turnover by dillingham it'll stay with the bulls
27:52take a look at our alexis experience amazing on the other side
27:57and we'll talk about jay huff and modest booze ellis and the blocks
28:01and a hundred made threes this year yeah how about that company you got victor webin yama out there
28:06miles turner the former indiana pacer having a good first year with milwaukee
28:10and then the two guys that are getting a breather right now and booze ellis and huff
28:14modest booze ellis having more three points made than all those guys
28:20modest is the sixth player in nba history to have 100 blocks and 150 main threes trey jones has another
28:28made
28:28two four of them tonight and see the bulls guard should see trey jones and what he's doing as far
28:34as how he's scoring he's scoring in bunches
28:38micah potter inside outside for peter rebound to yabusele with jones dillingham sexton and okoro
28:48potter out there trying to defend sexton nice rainbow jumper over the top of the outstretched hand
28:56jones and slawson and siakam peter and potter that's one line up to say peter piper pick up here
29:06you got midway through me deep range and he drills in
29:12slawson showing you some stuff at both ends of the floor tonight
29:15hey you don't get a chance to see these guys play a lot
29:20they're getting good looks at these guys while all these guys are out with this
29:23it's only the eighth game for sloss and what a finish by sexton he's got double figures now
29:31again the one thing that's
29:35wow they've really got a good look at college sex yeah they really got a good look at him to
29:40see if he's
29:40a guy they want to include in their future plans it's going to be unrestricted for aging
29:46dillingham into the teeth of the defense
29:50here comes siakam to the other side he's so long so difficult to defend
29:59he's zealous has 11 sexton with 10. siakam 15 hump 14 those are the leading scorers
30:05yabu saleh for three rebounded by slawson
30:10slawson just his eighth game of the season 20th of his nba career jones misfires on a three
30:19playing just his 31st game this season oh wow you showed you that screen used micah potter
30:26as a screener to take peter out of there potter took peter out
30:32potter took peter out and jones once he did to punish him but punished him
30:38siakam just bigger than everybody longer than everybody
30:45that's where you're going to see siakam he's going to be in the post he's got to be floating around
30:48he'll take some outside jumpers adam but most of the time he's going to be in the paint
30:54sloss of the foul
30:56watch this play by trey jones he's going to use peter to run into potter and he's going to punish
31:04the pacers
31:07like a children's book prodigious pronouncing there stace thank you i appreciate your partner
31:12but that's that's a smart move right there yeah that traffic very high i mean we've talked so much
31:17about jones and he would joke saying it's that duke education but i mean he's made so many high
31:22iq plays in key moments nice baker with the left hand by yabu saleh i mean you you and i
31:28were texting
31:28during that elite eight game between duke and yukon yeah and you know it's unfortunate situation for
31:34boozer who got into a tough spot but it's not as if those guys aren't taught that we showed you
31:39that video
31:40of john shire talking to his team about it but when the pressure is high and that everything is moving
31:45a
31:45million miles a minute you know that's what's impressive about somebody like trey jones well
31:49you got to remember too is that deep that's a nice move mozellis fouled although is it going to be
31:56an
31:56offensive fight peter tried to step in and take the charge from modest i think he slid in late
32:02they're going to call it a charge wow bozellis is saying he was displaced
32:07he's pushed potter pushing yeah that's what that's his argument that potter pushed him into it so now billy
32:12donovan's going to call a timeout and challenge eaters it looked like he was in the restricted area yeah
32:18it's tough to tell for sure from that angle but i bet we'll get a good look at it from
32:20another one
32:21to see if those heels around the restricted area
32:25nonetheless donovan to challenge it and we'll see the result on the other side
32:38from the angle we saw i didn't like that peter was in the that he was in the restricted
32:50taking a lot of time on this challenge
32:53that mark has the call and that the defender established a legal guarding position in the
32:59path of the offensive player therefore this offensive file was correctly judged this is an
33:03unsuccessful challenge as this is the second time out of the period they will be charged a timeout
33:07and chicago has no additional challenges and so again yabu saleh and bozellis are both arguing that
33:13potter was the one who kind of pushed who's ellis into peter but again peter had already established the
33:21position according to mark davis so it is an offensive foul on boozellis his first of the night
33:27that is another turnover there's a dozen already for the bulls in this first half
33:35here is thompson for three a foul is calling drills it that is the 26th assist the 29th made
33:44basket and the 12th three for indiana in this first half well it looks like indiana's a playoff
33:50caliber team they're knocking on shots they're just there's man sexed in the foul yes in the first half
33:57that's wild yeah you don't assume that they're going to keep up this pace but listen this is a
34:04makeshift bulls lineup tonight and already they have defensive problems they've given up 71 points
34:09in the first 21 minutes of this game
34:15is yabu saleh and this time it's a blocking foul on peter
34:20gonna be the third team foul on the pacers and the first on the rookie out of liberty
34:37this year's city edition uniform is still available a remix of the team's first city jersey this year's
34:43version returns with a bold new look jerseys in the floor retail collection are available at the united
34:48center and on shop.bulls.com learn more at bulls.com slash city i was joking with chris denari who's
34:57the
34:57excellent play-by-play announcer for the pacers and he said the last time the bulls and pacers saw each
35:02other was at the end of january before the trade deadline and it's like having a prep for a whole
35:06new
35:06team look at all the players used by these two teams only the grizzlies have used more than the bulls
35:12and
35:12pacers both of them have used 27 and of course those 27 different bulls are a franchise record
35:18nice drive by kobe brown with the reverse layup well it's it's really surprising with indiana being
35:25in the finals last year now the saleh rumbling inside draws upon you know they they get to a seventh
35:31game against oklahoma city you know so and then they come back and their whole roster's changed you lose
35:37miles turner and he moves to haliburton with injuries he's really the key to the engine thomas bryan who was
35:43a really good backup big he was off to cleveland they signed james wiseman who got released in december
35:52this year halliburton was hurt nimhard was hurt knee smith dealt with injury obviously obi toppen got
35:59hurt relatively early siakam's missed uh only about 10 games and he's had to be the durable player for
36:06this group and mavern who would use oh yeah that's right benedict mavern as well of course mavern he's
36:12having a great season out in l.a
36:15mavern coming off the bench for the clippers is actually leading the nba in bench scoring since
36:22the trade deadline
36:25sexton who's been good in that category too
36:28castling but thompson scores obviously sexton starting tonight but mavern and sexton are the top
36:34two in terms of bench scoring since the deadline and who's on that list as well kobe white
36:39making an impact for charlotte who's ellis bang bang bang his second three he's got 14 to lead the
36:45bulls kobe white's averaging almost 16 a game for the hornets who are on their way to the play in
36:50tournament potentially into the playoffs siakam the rainbow three he's just so good he is nine of 14
36:59for the field three of those five misses a bit from three he's already got 20 section short that time
37:06out of bounds nearly but saved by siakam
37:16indiana cuts hard on their cuts
37:19thompson way off target sexton on the push
37:23on the drive into peter got it to go on a foul
37:27he turns around and stares down tabling peter
37:32you know what i heard about this guy i don't know mess with him he's young at the backboard
37:37young bull is uh suffering no fools on this hyundai fast break replay
37:41he's right here he's trying to look for people
37:45he's uh say something to mr peter
37:50the sex is not having any of it fast break replay brought to you by chicago northwest indiana
37:54hyundai dealers i'll tell you what he's he's he is a tough player you you know when you see him
38:01on
38:01other teams you know he can play you've seen him play he can score he can play defense he plays
38:07with an
38:07intensity that you don't see a lot of players play with like ben shepherd just kind of accidentally
38:13ran into him a little bit after the free throw and sex it even kind of did though hey and
38:17almost
38:17stared shepherd down or maybe he was just admiring the stash that's a possibility as well uh-oh here
38:23comes kobe brown to the cup with the jam you can't gamble out there you don't have that rib
38:29protection out there jaylen smith's not back there nick richard's not out there and he's not a great
38:33three-point shooter either right you can't gamble like that so that's what makes sam antonio so good
38:39they can gamble like that because we have envy they got the protection back there from the center
38:44position here is yabu saleh nice drive it's one thing with buzelis because he's a wing and he's a
38:50great isolation defender so he's getting a lot of one-on-one blocks wimby is back there as a true
38:55center to just reject anything that comes his way that's how gobert plays there is shepherd that won't
39:02go but the difference between him and gobert is the fact that you know wimby can kill you in a
39:10a lot of different ways of course offensively gobert's a guy just throw the ball up there
39:15maybe he gets it they don't run plays for him now wimby can as we showed you when we can
39:18knock down
39:18threes he can work in the mid-range he's got handles he is uh right up there for mvp this
39:23year
39:24he certainly made the case for it publicly last week there's siakam having a big game against the bulls
39:31yet again he's got 22 and a chance at another at the line foul called on okoro
39:4082 points scored by indiana in this first half this is one of the worst defensive halves
39:46in the history of chicago bulls basketball you see right there he just did a gather step over
39:52college section who's there but couldn't stop that penetration
40:1083 points ties the second most allowed in the first half by the bulls
40:14in their 60 years of existence maybe the bull has not seen very many of these
40:22it's tough first half the pacers look very sharp offensively they have 30 assists on 33 baskets
40:29that's three shy of the nba record jones drives on potter high off the window no
40:35and that'll take us to the end of the first half
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