The Pacers must be wondering why they can’t seem to beat the Pistons. Three of their eight losses have come at the hands of the team from Motor City. Meanwhile, three of the Pistons’ nine wins came against the Pacers. The Pacers are good and the Pistons are not so good, so why is this happening?
I haven’t watched any of the games between these two teams other than through the medium of highlight videos, so I have no intelligent comment on the situation. I do, however, have some unintelligent comments, as I always do when I’m tasked with talking about something that I don’t know enough about.
Domantas Sabonis put up 27/13, 21/14, and 18/13 in the three losses. Those are nice numbers, but they’re not nice enough if the Pacers want to have any hope of winning. Sabonis should at least be hanging up thirty or forty on the Pissed-Ons to account for the fact that the rest of his teammates might not be showing up. He should also be grabbing twenty rebounds a game. If you grab that many rebounds, that means that the rebounds aren’t there for Andre Drummond to grab. Drummond’s only skill is rebounding (and throwing up hook shots that never go in), so if you neutralize that one skill, he’s not going to contribute anything else.
Or maybe this strange losing streak is cosmic vengeance for the Pacers’ leading role in the Malice in the Palace. When in doubt, always blame cosmic vengeance. Not karma. Karma is just superstition. Cosmic vengeance is real.