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  • Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

    http://www.hoopsworld.com/indianas-p...ffseason-moves

    The Indiana Pacers are at a turning point both on the court, where they have slowly been transforming into a perennial Eastern Conference powerhouse, and in the front office, where Donnie Walsh and Kevin Pritchard have replaced Larry Bird and David Morway as team president and GM, respectively.

    Despite those changes in leadership, the Pacers are still focused on a pretty clear long-term vision.

    “Donnie Walsh made it very clear that our goal was to keep the starters together and add to our bench,” Pritchard told HOOPSWORLD in Las Vegas. “[Last season’s finish] was the fifth-best record in the league. We took Miami pretty far in the playoffs and I think won more games than anybody against Miami.”

    With that huge step in the right direction—it was Indiana’s first playoff series win since 2005—Pritchard and Walsh felt motivated to be aggressive in free agency, both with maintaining their own players and signing some new guys to help them move forward even more in 2012-2013.

    All that started by matching a four-year, $58.4 million offer sheet that All-Star center Roy Hibbert signed originally agreed to with the Portland Trail Blazers at the start of free agency. Those are max dollars, which not everyone is certain Hibbert deserves, but Pritchard had an easy defense for keeping Hibbert aboard and making the trade that sent out Darren Collison and Dahntay Jones for backup center Ian Mahinmi.

    “We really felt like length helps in the playoffs. You’ve got to have some size, some bulk, so bringing Roy back was our first priority,” Pritchard said.

    “With Ian, we get a guy who can play the five and four, he’s 6’11”, and he’s 27 so he’s still improving. And everybody says he’s a great worker, so we feel lucky to get him.”

    The Pacers didn’t only add big men; this offseason’s major moves also included the addition of point guard D.J. Augustin and swingman Gerald Green, both of whom came at very reasonable prices considering their talent.

    According to Pritchard, Augustin will probably play a very different kind of a game with the Pacers than he’s used to, which was a big selling point in getting him to Indianapolis.

    “In Charlotte, he was so looked upon to score, but with us he can be a facilitator, or be in a pick-and-roll and find players, but he doesn’t have to go in to score to help us,” Pritchard said. “His role will change, but he really embraced that when we talked to him.”

    Green, meanwhile, had a standout season in New Jersey last year after spending some time in Moscow. He averaged 12.9 points in 31 games for the Nets, but that combined with a great interview convinced the Pacers’ brass to give him a long-term shot in Indiana.

    “We met with him for a couple of days,” Pritchard said. “Kids mature. It’s just a part of the business. He’s really come a long way, but what I like is that he’s really hungry. He’s ready to get after it, and we feel like we get a good signing in him. He’ll help our bench because he can really score and is super talented. He hasn’t put it all together yet, but we hope he can for us.”

    This could be a year in which the Pacers as a team “put it all together.” The Central Division is ripe for the picking, especially with Derrick Rose projected to miss most or all of the season, and there’s little reason to believe the Pacers couldn’t end up facing the Miami HEAT again at some point in the 2013 playoffs.

    In fact, if Pritchard and Walsh’s free agency moves this summer work out like they hope on the court, the Eastern Conference could come down to those two teams for years to come. For now, though, they just want to grow their young talent and play as well as they can.

    “Coach Vogel wants to keep this team together and see them grow,” Pritchard said. “We’ll look for deals and be opportunistic, but it’s not like we have to do something right now.

    “It’s never done,” he added, “but it’s time to sit back and evaluate where we are.”

    So where are they? In a pretty good place, it seems. They had to spend some money to get there, and more money will get spent down the road as other young guys gear up for extensions in coming years. But for now, the immediate future looks bright as the tide continues to turn in the right direction.
    Sittin on top of the world!

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    Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

    Originally posted by Keven Pritchard
    “With Ian, we get a guy who can play the five and four, he’s 6’11”, and he’s 27 so he’s still improving. And everybody says he’s a great worker, so we feel lucky to get him.”
    I'm being a stickler but Mahinmi's actually only 25, not sure if that's on the writer or Pritchard. Otherwise, it was a good read.

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      Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

      I'm just going to wait for the season to begin...I'm still not really that sold on the moves.


      Remember when we could have gotten 1-2 solid players and a possible Top 3 draft pick in the 2017 NBA Draft by trading away Paul George?

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        Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

        Originally posted by ksuttonjr76 View Post
        I'm just going to wait for the season to begin...I'm still not really that sold on the moves.
        I don't know. I am actually excited about watching the team grow together and I am much happier about the bench.
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          Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

          I was just hoping we would add a game changer to the bench. Plumlee/Mahinmi take care of our size problem that killed us last year, Green and Augustin add pure shooting, and hopefully Stephenson adds some facilitating as well as DJ Augustin. I was just banking on us getting an actual game changer on par with our starters to play off the bench. Thought our opportunity was Elton Brand or Luis Scola, and if we could somehow S&T for Carl Landry that would be perfect.

          My point is, our bench isn't going to cost us games anymore. But they still aren't going to win us many. I know Larry wanted us to be known as having the best bench in the league, and hopefully one of the best of all time. Right now it looks like our new bench is just trying to patch holes from last year. Not a bad thing, but at this point it seems like we are kind of dreaming small...

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            Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

            Originally posted by BringJackBack View Post
            I was just hoping we would add a game changer to the bench. Plumlee/Mahinmi take care of our size problem that killed us last year, Green and Augustin add pure shooting, and hopefully Stephenson adds some facilitating as well as DJ Augustin. I was just banking on us getting an actual game changer on par with our starters to play off the bench. . .
            yeah, me too. but they do have lots of depth at the 2. paul and someone should make it through the regular season. maybe paul, danny and green during the playoffs.

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              Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

              I'm just excited to see Gerald Green and Paul George on the court together. I think Mahinmi will be better than people expect, it will be nice to have some real depth at the center position now. I think Augustin will be a better distributor than Collison. I'm pretty excited.

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                Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

                “In Charlotte, he was so looked upon to score, but with us he can be a facilitator, or be in a pick-and-roll and find players, but he doesn’t have to go in to score to help us,” Pritchard said. “His role will change, but he really embraced that when we talked to him.”
                I like the sound of this.
                "Look, it's up to me to put a team around ... Lance right now." —Kevin Pritchard press conference

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                  Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

                  Originally posted by BringJackBack View Post
                  I was just hoping we would add a game changer to the bench. Plumlee/Mahinmi take care of our size problem that killed us last year, Green and Augustin add pure shooting, and hopefully Stephenson adds some facilitating as well as DJ Augustin. I was just banking on us getting an actual game changer on par with our starters to play off the bench. Thought our opportunity was Elton Brand or Luis Scola, and if we could somehow S&T for Carl Landry that would be perfect.

                  My point is, our bench isn't going to cost us games anymore. But they still aren't going to win us many. I know Larry wanted us to be known as having the best bench in the league, and hopefully one of the best of all time. Right now it looks like our new bench is just trying to patch holes from last year. Not a bad thing, but at this point it seems like we are kind of dreaming small...
                  I was hoping we'd improve our bench as well, just by improving our starters and bumping a current starter to the bench.

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                    Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

                    I agree! Just about the best news about the off season so far. A recognition by the Pacers that the point guard position is not all about scoring as it has been for years, and that facilitating is important!

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                      Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

                      Originally posted by McKeyFan View Post
                      I like the sound of this.
                      It is music to my ears.
                      Senior at the University of Louisville.
                      Greenfield ---> The Ville

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                        Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

                        Def think the bench has improved.

                        It just strikes me as funny that Pritchard is really going out of his way to explain and sell the offseason moves cause so many fans are pissed. Doesn't give me a ton of confidence.
                        First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.

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                          Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

                          Originally posted by Sparhawk View Post
                          Def think the bench has improved.

                          It just strikes me as funny that Pritchard is really going out of his way to explain and sell the offseason moves cause so many fans are pissed. Doesn't give me a ton of confidence.
                          Me either....in our fans.

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                            Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

                            Originally posted by Sparhawk View Post
                            Def think the bench has improved.

                            It just strikes me as funny that Pritchard is really going out of his way to explain and sell the offseason moves cause so many fans are pissed. Doesn't give me a ton of confidence.
                            Originally posted by PurduePacer View Post
                            Me either....in our fans.
                            I agree. Sparhawk, you say you like the moves, but you aren't confident in them because Pritchard is explaining them? Doesn't make a whole lot of sense to me.

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                              Re: Indiana’s Pritchard Explains Offseason Moves

                              “We took Miami pretty far in the playoffs and I think won more games than anybody against Miami.”
                              With Ian, we get a guy who can play the five and four, he’s 6’11”, and he’s 27 so he’s still improving.
                              This is our GM? Now I'm worried.

                              I liked our off-season moves other than the possibility of Stephenson playing SG because that's a disaster waiting to happen in my opinion.

                              Did Pritchard even watch the playoffs though? Miami beat us 4-2 and Boston 4-3. We had been up 2-1 on Miami but Boston had been up 3-2. I knew our record against the Heat during the regular season was 1-3 so at best, we matched the Celtics 3 wins in the playoffs against Miami. Then I looked at Boston and Miami during the regular season and Celtics beat them 3-1. I was willing to overlook that he "thought" the Pacers won more games against them, even though anybody who watched the playoffs knows they didn't. Did he not watch them?

                              Then he talks about Mahinimi and says he's 27 years old. Did the Pacers find out he was lying about his age and ESPN missed it? ESPN lists him as 25 years old.

                              Maybe I'm harping on small things but I actually stopped reading the article because he was wrong twice 1/4 of the way through what was quoted. If he's making these inaccurate comments about his own team, I question if he even watches NBA games. I knew he was wrong about those things off the top of my head, so why was he wrong? As far as I'm concerned, he should know every single detail about the Pacers over the past year and it's like he doesn't know the simplest of facts about this team.

                              I had started trusting the front office after the moves they made following drafting Plumlee and trading Collison but now I'm starting to wonder again.
                              Last edited by TOP; 07-22-2012, 10:34 PM.
                              "I have never taken the high road, but I tell other people to ’cause then there’s more room for me on the low road."

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