Toronto Raptors (7-5, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (1-11, 14th in the Eastern Conference)<\/p>\n
Indianapolis; Saturday, 7 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Indiana comes into the matchup with Toronto as losers of six straight games.<\/p>\n
The Pacers are 0-3 against conference opponents. Indiana is last in the Eastern Conference shooting 29.5% from 3-point range.<\/p>\n
The Raptors are 6-2 in conference matchups. Toronto is 3-5 when it turns the ball over less than its opponents and averages 13.1 turnovers per game.<\/p>\n
The Pacers are shooting 39.9% from the field this season, 6.9 percentage points lower than the 46.8% the Raptors allow to opponents. The Raptors are shooting 49.3% from the field, 1.4% higher than the 47.9% the Pacers’ opponents have shot this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Pascal Siakam is shooting 44.6% and averaging 24.1 points for the Pacers. Ben Sheppard is averaging 2.0 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Scottie Barnes is averaging 20.2 points, 7.6 rebounds, 5.2 assists, 1.5 steals and 1.8 blocks for the Raptors. Immanuel Quickley is averaging 25.0 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Pacers: 1-9, averaging 106.4 points, 47.0 rebounds, 23.4 assists, 6.8 steals and 4.8 blocks per game while shooting 39.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 120.3 points per game.<\/p>\n
Raptors: 6-4, averaging 118.4 points, 41.1 rebounds, 30.3 assists, 7.6 steals and 4.6 blocks per game while shooting 48.5% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 115.3 points.<\/p>\n
INJURIES: Pacers: Quenton Jackson: out (hamstring), Obi Toppin: out (foot), Johnny Furphy: out (ankle), Aaron Nesmith: day to day (knee), Kam Jones: out (back), Bennedict Mathurin: day to day (foot), Tyrese Haliburton: out for season (achilles), Cody Martin: day to day (illness).<\/p>\n
Raptors: Collin Murray-Boyles: day to day (illness), Ochai Agbaji: day to day (back).<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Toronto Raptors (7-5, sixth in the Eastern Conference) vs. Indiana Pacers (1-11, 14th in the Eastern Conference) Indianapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[163896,4225,24017,64,63,590,31647,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-283713","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-163896","9":"tag-article","10":"tag-athlete-injuries","11":"tag-au","12":"tag-australia","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-nba-basketball","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}