'If you’re sentimental, though, take a picture. Nothing lasts forever,' writes Columnist GreggDoyelStar regarding this year's Indiana Pacers Pacers frontcourt.
Pacers coach Rick Carlisle discusses Myles Turner, expectations for young team and more during media day at Ascension St. Vincent Center on Sept. 26, 2022.INDIANAPOLIS – They’re standing side by side, the most enticing trio of young big men in the NBA. They’re posing for a group photo under a basket at the Indiana Pacers’ training facility Monday, Myles Turner in the middle, with Jalen Smith to his left and Isaiah Jackson to his right.
This frontcourt is long and young and athletic, all three of them 6-10 or 6-11 of lean, explosive muscle. They can shoot 3-pointers. They can block shots. If you’re sentimental, though, take a picture. Nothing lasts forever.Jalen Smith, the outlier who wouldn't leave The Pacers are not. They recognized Smith had more to offer, gave him the chance to showcase it, and after the season spent time with him, recruiting him, telling him how they would develop him if he’d play for pennies on the dollar.
That’s a guess, one made from experience. My eyesight is just 20-140 – without glasses, I can see from 20 feet what a person with 20/20 vision can see from 140 feet – but it's a lot better than what Smith can see. We’re talking alone, Smith in his plastic, black-rimmed glasses, when I point to a sign on a wall: “DECREASE CORONAVIRUS RISK” written in two-inch letters. I peer above my glasses and read those words easily. I ask if he can do that.
Last season he averaged 12.9 ppg, 7.1 rpg and 2.8 blocks, shooting 33.3% on 3-pointers. His PER was 17.4, his production per 36 minutes 15.7 ppg, 8.7 rpg and 3.4 blocks. He did it with no help from Haliburton, who arrived in February, a month after Turner had been shut down for the season with a foot injury.
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