One New Year's resolution for every NBA team

One New Year’s resolution for every NBA team

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INDIANAPOLIS, IN – DECEMBER 10: Victor Oladipo /

Indiana Pacers – Trust yourself

Life made more sense back when Kevin Pritchard was a fool. Do you remember those days with those funny jokes and fun? I didn’t know anything about Kevin Pritchard before he traded Paul George for Victor Oladipo and Domantas Sabonis, so I was able to slide him right into a vacant “this person is foolish” slot in my mind. I’d been operating on that assumption since the end of summer, and didn’t really think to re-address it. First impressions are strong like that.

But Oladipo started the season well. After that he kept playing well. After that he has still been playing well. Sabonis isn’t popping off double-doubles like he was earlier in the year, but he’s still out there making a difference. At some point, one (me) has to look at the situation as it is and reassess their earlier convictions about a team and a team’s GM’s talents. I’m sure I’ll get around to it eventually, but first I have a really nice pear to eat.

Good job, Indiana. This is ostensibly real. Per Cleaning the Glass, they’ve jumped into the top-6 in points per possession, effective field goal percentage and turnover percentage while being outside the top-10 last year. They’ve also jumped all the way to first in the league in opponent free throw rate after being 26th in the league last year. That’s significant.

I enjoy it. I think it’d be good to just take it at face value at this point. Live on the edge a bit.

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