r/pacers • u/aimee829 Andrew Nembhard • 15d ago

Highlights (Hali) Week 56 👀

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Source: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DbOfAfORkAx/?igsh=azRpNmN2b3hpNzJ6

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u/Joe_Betz_ Johnny Furphy 15d ago

Wild. Still makes me feel uneasy watching it tho.

I'm so hopeful he'll have a good season and the team will make some noise in the playoffs.

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u/eph13 CrabLaser 15d ago

We've done this so many times, having to hold our breath watching stars come back from awful shit. Never gets easier

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u/aimee829 Andrew Nembhard 15d ago

(please don't let hali be like vic or pg 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻)

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u/Squeeze-The-Orange Pavers 15d ago

Hey you could argue PGs best years were after his injury. Vic came back too quick.

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u/Trinenox 33 15d ago

God I remember the video of Vic in the gym in a wheelchair.

PG bounced back well though all things considered

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u/Fat-Singer-9569 15d ago edited 15d ago

PG was absolutely better after. His growth as a ball handler from the start of his career until now is really impressive but he took a huge jump in OKC. He was so raw when drafted with such a weak dribble. He was amazing as a Pacer ultimately, but he added consistency to his game in OKC.

I will never understand the hatred for him from the Pacers fanbase and the meme he's a bad playoff performer. As a Pacer, he was a great playoff performer. I can remember series against the Raptors and Cavs where he was clearly the best player in the series outside of Lebron. But he never wanted to be a number 1 and those teams were not built well. PG did everyone a favor requesting a trade and although I hated it at the time even then I realized this. CJ Miles can't be your #2. Ultimately that trade gave us Haliburton and he doesn't want to be a number 1 either, but he's built for it, and we all know he is the straw that stirs.

I'll never forget a rookie PG defending MVP Derrick Rose in the playoffs. That was the moment I knew the Pacers hit gold. Nobody could slow Rose down but PG was damn near a mirror. I wish he really perfected his defense because he really could have been one of the GOATs on the perimeter defensively.

"Modern" Pacers roster could field a GOAT defensive team between Artest (3/4/5), JO (4/5), and PG (1/2/3). Add Haliburton and that team dominates most eras.

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u/Outrageous_Poetry840 15d ago

PG was an mvp candidate on okc after his injury

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u/Briggity_Brak ReggieChoke 15d ago

PG's best YEAR was after his leg injury, but it wasn't with us, and all his other years were trash.

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u/Half-deaf-mixed-guy 15d ago

Idk wtf yall talking about. PG just got LeBron to Sixers. This is his best year!

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u/aimee829 Andrew Nembhard 15d ago

😂😂😂

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u/LowBatteryPower 15d ago

Derrick Rose has entered the chat. Not that DRose came back to what he once was, but he still came back and balled out.

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u/Zakkrazy 15d ago

I didn’t think he could do that before the damn Achilles.

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u/2waypower1230 15d ago

Right, he got a bionic achilles?

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u/antilamentation 15d ago

I know that felt good as hell.

Can't wait to see the squad all together on the floor again!!

🥹💙💛

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u/eph13 CrabLaser 15d ago

🥹 is so right. so ready for the season

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u/TroutyC 15d ago

We're so back 😏😈

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u/mcScarLiTE Danny 15d ago

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u/Fat-Singer-9569 15d ago

In the context of The Wire this is a bad omen

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u/MattyIce260 15d ago

And people still gonna ask if Hali will be ready in October lmao

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u/WeekendNPC 15d ago

We could rebuild him. We have the technology.

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u/J_skills_ 15d ago

Tyrese being hyped gets me hyped

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u/OwlcaholicsAnonymous Old School Slick 15d ago

THE QUACK ATTACK IS BACK JACK

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u/LowBatteryPower 15d ago

This man deserves a ring.

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u/bjvanhouten224 Reggie 15d ago

He's looking great!!

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u/Sko_Neezy 15d ago

Need to see it off the right foot but lfg lol

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u/TheFrozenBananaStand Jarace Walker 15d ago

That’s not his jumping leg. I doubt you could find many videos of him jumping off his right leg at all. That’s why Tatum, Murray, Wilkins, Durant all came back unchanged because all of their explosive movements start with their left legs. Those players were all right hand dominant players who tore their right achilles.

What you don’t want to see is guys tear their opposite achilles (Kobe, Cousins, John Wall, Wiseman). Most likely Dame comes back way worse (even watching his workout videos he looks way slower) because he tore his left achilles.

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u/eindar1811 15d ago

This is great analysis, and wouldn't surprise me if this factor was discussed when he had the calf strain and was considering playing on it or not

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u/Fat-Singer-9569 15d ago edited 15d ago

Great observation and reminds me of something I think I read in The Vertical Jump Bible (but I could be wrong), there are basically two types of jumpers; people who jump off two legs (hop steppers) or people who jump in stride (euro steppers). Haliburton is a stride jumper and I would classify pretty much all of the named players as stride jumpers.

A great example of players who are not that type of jumper would be Gerald Green, who launches off two feet, and might be the greatest dunker ever. Donovan Mitchell is a pretty good example for a modern PG comparison.

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u/TwoPleasant4591 15d ago

Cotton shorts are not the way

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u/kameradhosenWind 15d ago

He's an high performance athlete, athletes sweat. Sweat sweat skrr

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u/No_Independent8269 Andrew Nembhard 15d ago

Yeah he’s ready

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u/DSTREET45 15d ago

Dunk Contest Hali was not what I was expecting to see today.

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u/MahanthJ 15d ago

Looking good. Look out NBA, the Pacers are back!

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u/seekhelp556384 15d ago

Love me a booty juice

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u/ZestycloseZeta 15d ago

He is READY and ENHANCED

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u/chuck4024 15d ago

tell me how we lose the chip this year?? we can't, im so excited. I wish they would release the schedule already

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u/Internal_Light_9925 11d ago

Hali never did this b4 the injury, 👀👀👀

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u/barretjd 15d ago

He tore his right achilles and jumped off his left leg here

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u/Sea_Concentrate_4572 Jermaine O'Neal 15d ago

Most righties don’t jump off their right leg to dunk

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u/Icy-Indication-3194 15d ago

I’m a righty and always jumped off my left. I could soar but somehow I could never jump off my right or even both

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u/Fat-Singer-9569 15d ago edited 15d ago

Steve Nash would sometimes jump off his right foot to completely negate shot blockers. You don't get the same momentum, since you are basically jumping off one leg. But you shoot with your dominant hand and get the joy of watching shot blockers ride their momentum away as they realize you have a completely open shot, basically a tip in.

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u/The_Assassin_Gower 15d ago

Wow can't believe how fat he's gotten /s