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The Pacers finished ninth after the last NBA regular season game they won against the Toronto Raptors.
At that point, the Hornets fell to 10th after losing to the Washington Wizards on Sunday.
The Indianapolis and Charlotte teams last played on April 2, when the Hornets won by 17 points, but in that game, Sabonis injured his ankle and did not finish the game.
“They have a lot of weapons in attack,” Sabonis told the Indy Star after returning to the field on Sunday after two lost games due to a thigh injury. – They share the ball well. They are running away. They force us to catch ourselves defending them.
Understand instantly
- Teams that occupy 7-10 spots are struggling to make the playoffs.
- Initially, 7-8 place and 9-10 place teams will compete from time to time.
- The winner of a 7-8-place pair of clubs immediately enters the playoffs, and the loser has another chance in a duel with the winner of a 9-10-place pair match.
- The club that loses the duel 9-10 is eliminated. Therefore, to enter the playoffs, Sabers, represented by D. Sabonis, and Jonas Valančiūnas, the Memphis Grizzlies, who ranked ninth in the West, must win two play-in games.
Sabonis will be heavily burdened Tuesday in Indianapolis because the Pacers can’t trust Myles Turner: The midfielder missed 16 games due to injury and shouldn’t play Tuesday.
In the last regular championship game in Tampa, the Pacers were unable to help even six players, but most of their injuries are not long-lasting, they should return to the field in the next few days.
In any case, much will be decided by D. Sabonis, who accumulates 20.2 points and rebounds 11.9 balls this season. Lithuanians reached 53 percent. his shots of the game, and he’s already racked up 48 double-doubles this season.
On the Hornets against him, we’re either Cody Zeller or Bismack Biyombo, if he doesn’t fit into the lower front line where the Charlotte club started the last game.
The player for Charlotte’s team is LaMelo Ballas, who is well known to Lithuanian basketball fans and started in professional basketball in Prienai a few years ago.
During the NBA debut season, L. Ballas scores 15.7 points, rebounds 5.9 balls and makes 6.2 assists. It is true that the 19th anniversary success is not impressive: 44 percent. of all shots out of the game, 35.6 percent. three points.
„Scanpix” / AP nuotr./LaMelo Ballas
L.Ballas is third on the Charlotte team in terms of performance. Attacking leader is attacking defender Terry Rozier after 20.2 points, and the team’s most expensive basketball player, Gordon Hayward, is unable to help the team due to a foot injury.
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