Rick Carlisle knows that Pacers can’t fight until they fix this deadly error

Indiana Pacers are seven matches over .500 and are in a good place to make another deep playoffs. Even after doing their conference final last season and dealing with a slow start to the current campaign, Pacers looks even better than they did last year. They are a significantly better defense unit and the team is generally much more complete. In addition, each player continues to buy their role.

There is still a lot of work left before Pacers can consider themselves challengers at the same level as Boston Celtics and Cleveland Cavaliers, but it is clear that they are approaching this territory. Furthermore, they are a legitimate playoff threat and will be a challenge for anyone they face in the postal season. However, there is a specific error that Pacers has that they need to train to solidify themselves as title competitions.

Rick Carlisle says pacers should start games on a better note

After Pacers’ loss to Los Angeles Lakers on Saturday, head coach Rick Carlisle expressed his frustrations towards a specific area the team must arrange-Their slow begins to play.

“You can’t survive doing this and having this kind of bad starter,” Carlisle said. “We have to look in the mirror. I have to look and consider everything. We need to be better at the beginning of the game. We have to go harder and we have to fight harder.”

“When you don’t start well, you always leave too much to chance,” Carlisle said. “… you have that kind of a terrible start and get down with 22 points, it’s a massive hole on the road. We’re far from home. There are lots of reasons why we should avoid this.”

Although Pacers lost only by seven, this was largely because of their performance in the second half. After the first quarter, Pacers lakers (which was without LeBron James and Luka Doncic) pulled 44-22. In addition, it became a 12-point deficit for Indiana less than six minutes into the game.

In Pacers’ victory over Los Angeles Clippers last Thursday, it was also a similar story. They went down 42-22 after the first quarter and faced a double-digit deficit only three minutes into the game. Nor did Pacers have a lead at all in the first quarter. Either way, they ended the comeback and won by seven.

These slow starts have been a trend for pacers, especially in the last few matches. While mostly they turn things around during the action, this is a bad habit they need to quit, especially if they want to compete for a championship.

A slow start during a few matches in February is not a big problem in the big scheme of things, but it can become one if it continues into the playoffs where they will take on the best teams in the league.

Fortunately, there is a lot of time for Pacers to solve this problem and turn things around. In the end, they are too talented not to. However, it is worthwhile to monitor the rest of the way when Pacers seems to continue to climb the position.