 It's time, ladies and gentlemen, the Indiana Pacers trade for Pascal Siakam and Tyrese's back from his injury. Pascal's making his debut. Now it is in Portland. Portland's not a very good team, but we have to react to the debut live. One of those people that I thought I would never see in a different jersey. I don't know how to explain. I mean, he did spend his whole career in Toronto before last week or a couple of days ago, but it still is a bit different. It's a bit different. I got to get used to it. Here we go. First offensive possession. Oh, I don't know, man. I'm just overall excited. Now, switched over to the Indiana Pacers broadcast. This is normally a team. When I watch the Blazers, I listen to the Blazers. But I got to listen to Indy because this is their first game together, man. I got to hear what the commentators are saying about the matchups, about the team. First shot back from injury. Cash. Sheesh. Pass y'all, come get it. Screen. It is the first one. And it's up. The first two as a Pacer. There it is. Malcolm Brock is so nasty. Hey, I don't know if Malcolm Brock is getting traded. I would hope so. And he goes to a team that's trying to compete. Send that man to Philly. Send that man to New York. I need to see him on a playoff team. Malcolm Brock is just so underrated, bro. He's so underrated. Corner three. Pascal Bottoms. Oh, man. This team was already really, really fun. It was already a super fun team to watch. And now I'm just saying like a talent upgrade for a type of roster like this goes a very long way. Come on, Indy Smith. You get a chance to start. That's what we do. And there's Malcolm Brock then. Just on cue. On cue, man. Malcolm Brock for three. He just won't miss. Let me see. Does he have 11? He's down. I'm losing track. Just know he got a lot of the points so far. I don't know if Tyrese is supposed to be on some type of ministry restriction since his first game back in like two weeks or so. Buddy Bottoms. I mean, you can just see it. Certain players, when they release in the ball, you just know. And Buddy's one of those guys. Off the fingertips, you can tell what Buddy Hill shot is going in and which ones are not. Now, this switch over to the Blazers commentary. I don't know. I just like this one of my favorite commentary teams at basketball. There's a spin from Pascal. I mean, you know it's coming. You just don't, you can't really guard it in most cases. I've mentioned this before. I do not like Scoot's on court drip. I know I'm 27 years old. I shouldn't be thinking about on court drip, but it's a real thing. It's a real thing. The leg sleeves, the calf sleeves look like socks. So it just looks like he's, it looks like he just went two socks to his knees. And I just don't like it. Scoot. Come on, man. The last week or so don't, don't start messing around. Now he did end up having 33 points on 31 shots a couple of nights ago, but I watched all of those shots. Like 29 of them were good looks for him. You know, they were giving him so many open ones. He was just taking them, taking them, taking them. And they'll fall more eventually. I like Ben Shepard, too. Good defense right there by Bari. I miss the King of Inficiency Jalen Smith. I say he's King of Inficiency. He's missing layups. This might turn to a School Henderson video. This might turn to a School Henderson video. This is such a good take from the Rook, man. Such a good take. I think that's six points, all on layups, just him using that strength. Because then he's a rookie, but he's built like a tank. And the first couple, I guess, months of his career, he wasn't doing that like that. So we're seeing the progression. Eight points. He's got eight. Good pass, Ben. Ben Shepard is just a little bit too shy for me. I know you're a rookie, though. Please take the shot. There you go. There you go. You're a shooter. Remember that, Ben? You are a shooter. And look at the graphics. This feels like an ad for you to watch Trailblazer games. But it's beautiful. It just exists. It exists like the first quarter stats. Who's doing it? Oh, my god. That's 30 feet out. No good. And here's Habastro coming on to the microphone. You know, like I said, they got a nice group of talent over there. Obi, good one more. That's good basketball. That's good basketball. Now you may have won the one more to the guy that's close to 50-40-90, but that's good basketball. Scoot made him fall. Finish it. Finish it. Rewind it. Rewind it. Scoot made him touch the floor. Oh, man. His legs just like, I got to go one more time. One more time. Because sometimes players trip, let's look real closely. He tripped over Miles. I don't care. I don't care. Highlight real material for Scoot. One thing I mentioned in the original Trail video is that there will never be a minute where Pascal's on the floor without a good setup point guard. And right now Tyrese is on the bench and it's T.J. McConnell. Nemhardt is injured, so we won't see any of him today. But number nine is going to get you the ball when you need it. That one's in. I can see it. Buddy Hill's release. It's like you can see when it's going in and when it's not. And it's not just about when he's open, when he's not, because I mean, he's Buddy Hill. He's one of the best 3-point shooters of all time. But still, I don't know. I don't know. And there's Mr. Steady right there. One thing about Deondre Aiden. If you get him that ball, A button don't work. Black hole. I'm just, and sometimes that's OK. And today so far it's been OK. And I'm not using that as criticism. So far today it's been OK. They can't miss. But there are times I'm like, man, sometimes the first look ain't the best look. I need the pacers to run a little bit. So far the Blazers have done a very good job at limiting fast work opportunities. One is because they're shooting 60% from the field. So they're not even getting an opportunity to do fast break, but they are getting back. And not a single person is crashing for offense and rebound. They've kind of recognized that the pacers are the number 2 fast break team of basketball. So they say, hey, y'all got to beat us some other way. And it's working so far. Jeremy Grant is just like, look at this. That's amazing defense. But Jeremy has made some of the toughest shots. They would just mention on the broadcast that Jeremy Grant takes the third toughest shots in all the association by some metric behind Brandon Ingram and DeMar DeRosa. He's third in all the league. And obviously, he's still in the fishing basketball player. It's kind of amazing to watch in real time. Points in the paint is 40 to 12 right now. And the three point disparity is 11 made threes for the pacers and only two for the Blazers. But I mean, if you're going to outscore the opposing team by 30 in the paint, who cares about three point shots? I didn't realize it was that crazy when I was talking about the fact that they only hit two threes. The trailblazers are breaking records in this one. The lowest amount of three-pointers attempted by a team in a single half to seize the Pascal, another bucket. Five three-point attempts. The lowest all season, which is kind of crazy. Think about where we came from as like an league. Five three-pointers and a half is super low. But like, I've definitely watched basketball games in my life where that was like the norm and nobody's better than I. And that was the lowest of all time or lowest of the season. The second play, the start, the half ran for Pascal. Pascal had zero, like zero actual play. At least that's what it looked like. Zero plays ran for him in the first half. And the first two possessions of the second half, they like give Pascal the ball and let him do what he can do. And four straight points. And that's great defense, but nobody's there to help the help that was helping the help that was also helping the help. I would say give it back to 43. And just until he missed, give it to 43. Or number seven, that one's in two. I don't know, I don't know. I don't know the size behind it. I don't know the size behind it. One of my least favorite things is when a player blatantly breaks the rules and they act like they did it. Aaron Eastman for a hundred percent travels here. But he's like, what did I do? No, what did I do? What did I do? No, you traveled my boy. It's fine. Give back. You sure, you 100% traveled. Strip as he went up. Finally, a fast break opportunity. Good defense, Jeremy Grant. He is everywhere offensively and defensively. OK, they were winding it for us. Like he had no chance or no idea that he was making that play. That's man. It really is just the Blazers walking to the rim. Every possession. It's kind of impressive how bad the defense is for the Pacers. Like for real, it's kind of impressive. It's just such an interesting lineup right now for the Trail Blazers. They got zero guards on the floor. They got four wings and a big. And none of these guys traditionally are like, it's not like they got a point forward on the court. Like Jeremy's doing everything tonight, so I guess you could play him at all five positions. But I wonder how many minutes this combination of players have played. I mean, uh-oh. You see, you don't have a point guard. You see what happens when you don't have a point guard? You see what happens when you don't have a point guard? Oh, man. Yeah, I don't know. So, school Henderson did get injured earlier, and he has not come back. So, I see why they don't have another point guard, because the point guard that they were expecting to have to play these minutes is not there anymore. I don't even remember who else was on the roster that could be a point guard. Either way, yeah, they just got four wings in the center on the court. It really just is a layup line. It really just is a layup line. No way, no way, no way you'd let this man get to the basket this easy. First of all, Obi-Toppin, this fake I'm-a-stop ball thing is just not gonna cut it. And the fake reach right there for Benedict Maher, it's just all really bad. Shout out, shout out to the Blazers, because they recognized that very early on, and they will not stop. They have not settled for a three-point shot this whole game. Like, I mean like really settled. Now of course they've taken three-point shots because they were open, but I mean settling for a three has not happened. And that's how they get to this point. They are just really getting to the basket at will. And it's a team that doesn't do that normally. Doesn't do that normally. So it is cool to see them play a different way because of their competition. Throw it up. Oh, and what? He was definitely asking to get thrown up, and Tyrese has took it himself. Now Tyrese has missed two free throws today. So it's not a guarantee three-point play the way he's hooping right now, but three is greater than two. The whole fourth quarter has been the Blazers again getting to the basket and getting fouled. Like eight minutes left, they ran a penalty. Like it's been straight up the same thing over and over. And it's been successful. Like look at this, I don't even know if I got it. Watch this last six minutes, because if you can't prevent this man from doing this every possession, you're just not gonna win the game. You're just not gonna win. Spoiler alert, when you give up layups to NBA players, they don't miss them too often. Patients are trying to make some noise. It's only a seven-point game. And both teams have been in the penalty. The reason why you have not seen much fourth quarter from me, it's all been free throws. What you want me to say to do the free throw? It's all been free throw. So yeah, I ain't been talking too much, but now they can't start playing scared now. It's a whole four minutes left. Yeah, Malcolm. It's one of my least favorite things about this sport. Shout out to DeAndre Aiden. They get close, the game only has a few minutes left. And now the stuff that was working to put you in a lead, you just stopped doing. I'll never understand it. It happens every game to every team and Miles makes it a five-point game again. See, I come as five fouls. Jeremy Grant is just ridiculous. I mean, that's high off glass. You can't even do nothing about that. 36 points for him so far. Three minutes left. Pascal Eileen, never mind, never mind. What is this spacing? What is this spacing? I hate it. It ended in another and one. Oh, no, it didn't. Ladies and gentlemen, it's looking like that's it. Barry Walker hit a couple big shots. I guess layups, dude, they counted shots. Made a couple big layups. It's foul season. I don't know if I can get through. I mean, I'm gonna watch, obviously, but this is feeling more and more like a Blazers win every single second. Like, look at that man fight. Look at that man fight. Definitely need a bucket right here if you're gonna come back, Pacers. That is a bucket. All right, we're standing in our chair. We're standing in our chair, because that is a bucket. No fouls, buddy, please, though. I can't do more free throws, bro. I don't know how many free throws has been, but just mark my words. It's been a lot of them, all right? I stopped right here. Puts you back in the game, believe it or not. That was a huge three right there. But Malcolm Brogd, there been no one today. Can he get another one? Oh, he touched it. D-A, D-A, that was going in. Uh-oh, uh-oh, Malcolm. Three seconds to go. He got it up on the glass. He missed it. You gotta go, you gotta go. You gotta go, buddy's about to do something crazy. I see it in his eyes. Never mind. They turned it over. They turned it over. Matisse Stiball. That's the idea of Matisse Stiball. Got them spooked. And it's a six point game with 50. I'm sure they're gonna foul. Hey, listen. I ain't here for this. They tried to figure out that somebody could attack that they not. This game is wrapped up, okay? This game is wrapped up. The Pacers defense was awful in protecting the paint. They tried to make it interesting. It ended up being a great game. Pascal Siakam looked pretty good in his debut, and that's with not a lot of opportunities drawn up for him. I thought the time in between him and Tyrese was amazing, but of course, it's not. It's their first game playing together. We could check back in like a month or so when they get 10 or 15 games out of their belt. I think it can obviously work very well, but the Blazers just put them on a butt today.