Indiana Pacers at Washington Wizards (N/A)
The Pacers offense should pick back up where it left off before the All-Star Break. After all, almost every team has been lighting up the Wizards.
Indiana has thrived offensively under interim coach Frank Vogel. Since taking over, the team has gone 7-3 SU and 6-4 ATS and topped the 100 point mark in each game. And turning the Pacers around has been no small task. Indiana is just 26th in the league in field goal percentage (44.3 percent) but has risen to 13th in points per game (99.5) thanks to the streaking offense.
“It feels good,” center Roy Hibbert said. “It’s a team effort. What I like about this team is if we’re down, if we’re up, we stick together and find a way to win.”
And it’s not like the Wizards are going to be able to shut them down. On the season, Washington is 22nd in opponents points per game (103.1), 25th in opponents field goal percentage (47.1) and 29th in opponents three-point percentage (37.9). If somehow the Wizards do find a way to shutdown the Pacers, the team must still overcome some lineup issues.
Nick Young (17.6 ppg) is nursing a sore knee and is expect to play, but forwards Al Thornton (knee) and Rashard Lewis (finger) are questionable.
"We're hurt," Washington coach Flip Saunders said. "We had a lot of guys who were hurt. It was one of those things, the harder we tried, the harder we fell. It was like being in quicksand."
Pick: Indiana