Toronto Raptors vs Indiana Pacers: Game Preview and Predictions

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00:03 Let's start off with the game tonight between Toronto and

00:07 Indiana, the Pacers six and a half point favorites.

00:10 They are at home.

00:11 And of course, whenever Indiana plays,

00:13 you know the total is gonna be super high.

00:15 It is again tonight, 246 in an NBA game.

00:18 This is not the All-Star game,

00:19 it's a regular season game with a total of 246.

00:23 Gilbert, the Raptors, I mean, I don't know what we thought they

00:27 were gonna be at the beginning of the season.

00:29 I think it's fair to say they've been disappointing.

00:30 I mean, they're 15 games under 500.

00:32 They're not gonna make the playoffs,

00:33 they're shooting for next year.

00:35 But this is a team, again, we've seen over the course of a week or

00:38 two that they pull off these very strange upsets at times.

00:41 Can they do that again tonight in Indiana?

00:44 >> I think one thing the Raptors have done this year is they've set their mind and

00:49 they've set an identity, right?

00:50 They've gotten rid of some of the guys who were there,

00:53 trading OG Anovy and trading Pascal Siakam, who's now with the Pacers.

00:57 And now they're focused on the future.

00:58 And in doing so, I think that's helped them kinda understand what they wanna do

01:01 on a night-to-night basis.

01:02 They do have a rest advantage, the Pacers played last night.

01:05 And actually put forth a pretty good defensive effort against the Mavericks.

01:08 The Pacers are playing good basketball, but

01:10 as you mentioned, the Raptors have played a little bit better.

01:12 They actually just took this Pacers team down to the wire a few weeks ago.

01:16 They've won two games in a row since then.

01:18 So I'm actually expecting a pretty close game just because the way these two teams

01:22 match up, the fact that the Pacers played a game last night, and

01:26 the Raptors are starting to figure out their identity a little bit more now that

01:29 their roster's a little bit more straightforward.

01:31 So it should be an entertaining game in Indiana.

01:33 The storyline's there, and the talent's definitely there.

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