Pacers vs Heat

The Miami Heat will travel to take on the Indiana Pacers in a Monday night NBA matchup at Gainbridge Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. With that said, it's a good ...

Paced by Haliburton, Indiana ranks fifth in the league with 27.3 assists per game, while Miami allows 25.9 per game. Indiana is second in the league with 6.1 blocks per game, led by Myles Turner’s 2.3 per game. Jimmy Butler leads the team with 21.8 points and 1.7 steals per game, and ranks second with 6.7 rebounds and 6.0 assists per game. Rookie Bennedict Mathurin is second with 17.9 points per game, with the majority of his appearances coming off the bench. Buddy Hield and Myles Turner each have averaged 17.6 points, while Turner leads the team with 7.7 rebounds per game. Jalen Smith, the third-year pro, ranks second with 6.7 rebounds and is averaging 11.2 points per game. Bam Adebayo leads the team with 9.2 rebounds per game and ranks second with 20.8 points per game, narrowly missing a double-double. The team’s success relies on their defense, which has held opponents to 110.3 points per game, seventh in the league. Miami has turned the ball over just 14 times per game, which is seventh in the league. Haliburton has shot 48.8 percent from the field. Lowry has also scored 14.3 points per game. Thankfully, most of the injuries to major contributors are considered just day-to-day.

The Indiana Pacers are in a favorable spot on Monday against the Miami Heat, who have been dreadful as favorites and on the road this season.

Either way, I’ll gladly take the three points to back Haliburton and company tonight. Butler, Oladipo and Herro in the lineup certainly boosts Miami’s offensive profile, but the team lost against the Spurs with all of those players healthy. Do the Heat start to play more like the team that was the No. 1 seed in the East last season? Miami has a loaded injury report in this game, but Herro, Butler, Duncan Robinson and Max Strus are all listed as probable. Heat vs.

The Indiana Pacers will host the Miami Heat in Indianapolis tonight, and Victor Oladipo could play against the Pacers for the first time since being traded ...

[CLICK HERE](https://www.si.com/nba/pacers/news/atypical-circumstance-leads-to-atypical-performance-in-indiana-pacers-loss-to-sacramento-kings) [.](https://www.si.com/nba/pacers/news/indiana-pacers-have-several-players-in-for-workouts-this-past-weekend-led-by-tyrese-haliburton) Tonight, he could play in Indianapolis for the first time since the Pacers traded him to the Rockets. [CLICK HERE](https://www.si.com/nba/pacers/news/nba-players-rumored-available-trade-indiana-pacers) [.](https://www.si.com/nba/pacers/news/indiana-pacers-have-several-players-in-for-workouts-this-past-weekend-led-by-tyrese-haliburton) The Heat were without Butler when the teams first played, and Nembhard had a great game. Jimmy Butler, Tyler Herro, Victor Oladipo, Duncan Robinson, and Max Strus are probable. For the Heat, Jamal Cain, Nikola Jovic, Dru Smith, Gabe Vincent, and Omer Yurtseven are out. The over/under for the game is 227.5. Trevelin Queen and Kendall Brown could be in the G League as a part of their two-way contracts, and both have played with the Fort Wayne Mad Ants recently. If he plays, it will be the first time that he has played against the Pacers, or played in Indianapolis, since the franchise traded him away in early 2020. They are 5-5 in their last ten games. On Sunday, the team got a breather, and tonight, they'll use that extra juice and try to take down the Miami Heat in Indianapolis. The Indiana Pacers brutal stretches of schedule are over, as they just finished a week in which they play five games in seven days.

The Heat already suffered an upset loss to the Pacers by 2 points this season and will now try to take revenge.

Indiana missed a lot from the paint, and Turner only made one block. Brooklyn was without seven key players, and Indiana didn't take advantage of the situation and still lost 133:136. By the start of the season, Indiana had traded away nearly all of its former leaders, and now there is only one question: Did the team go into a rebuild?

The Heat played that game without Jimmy Butler, but appear to be fully healthy this time around which includes having former Pacers star, Victor Oladipo ...

The Pacers will have to return to playing the same way, which they did not do in their last outing. And by rebound, I mean, literally trying to rebound after getting crushed on the glass by the Nets. The Pacers are trying to rebound from a horrible loss on Saturday to the short-handed Nets.

The Heat outlasted the Pacers 87-82 in the lowest scoring NBA game since April 2021. Tyrese Haliburton is held without a field goal.

The Pacers also nearly matched the Heat on the glass with Miami winning 48-45. The Pacers responded with clear improvement on defense and the boards. The Pacers obviously didn't dominate in those phases and every point mattered, but there was still clear response. The Heat's focus on him freed up other scorers, and it was largely with him on the floor that the Pacers rallied to take the lead. He posted six assists against two turnovers, and when he was on the floor, the Pacers outscored the Heat by seven. The Pacers trailed by 19 points, but rallied back to make it a five-point game at halftime, and they took a five-point lead in the third quarter.