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00:00 But the Mavericks were the hottest team in the Western Continent.
00:06 Winners of seven straight games.
00:08 That came to a close last night in Indianapolis.
00:10 The Pacers went big by 22, 133-111 outright as a two-point home underdog.
00:18 Indiana now 16-16 straight up this year as an underdog and even 500 record outright when
00:26 booked as a dog.
00:27 Look, hard to win on the road in the NBA, we know that.
00:30 Against a decent team in the Pacers now rounding into form and looking to be healthy down the
00:34 stretch.
00:35 But you also got 29 points out of Kyrie Irving and then 33 points out of Luka Doncic here
00:39 which still wasn't enough.
00:40 And all of a sudden, look, 10 of 22 from the field for Irving, 10 of 21 for Doncic.
00:44 We know the Mavericks are going to go only as far as those two guys.
00:48 But you still got to get some help from around you.
00:50 You know, Washington, two points in the starting lineup.
00:52 Lively, four points here.
00:53 At least Green had 14 points.
00:55 We didn't get much off the bench either at that point.
00:57 When you're going against a team that likes to get up and down with tempo here, it's going
01:01 to stress your superstars.
01:02 Now in that game, at least you didn't play a ton of minutes.
01:04 Kyrie got 32 minutes and Luka Doncic got 33 minutes as you move on.
01:09 But it's hard to have win streaks in the NBA as you're trying to approach 10 or so games.
01:13 That wasn't going to happen for the Dallas Mavericks.
01:14 No shame in their game losing to the Pacers.
01:16 But I do find this win intriguing for the Pacers because there's a lot of teams.
01:20 We used to talk about the Celtics and it's can the Bucs get together.
01:23 But there's a handful of teams there that are saying, you know what, if the cards go
01:26 our way here and we stay healthy, maybe we can be exciting in the playoffs.
01:30 And the Pacers certainly are, Ben, one of those teams.
01:33 Absolutely so.
01:34 Eight games above 500.
01:36 Dallas still nine games above 500.
01:39 Indiana has won both of its games following the All-Star break.
01:42 They have covered in both.
01:44 They scored 133 points at home last night in Indy.
01:48 But with a total of 251, the game still stayed under, under in five of the last six for Indiana,
01:55 under in six of the last eight for Dallas, who had covered in six of the seven games
02:00 that they had won in a row.
02:01 62 combined out of Luca and Kyrie.
02:04 Every member of the Pacers starting five, scoring at least 12 points led by Miles Turner.
02:10 33 points yesterday.
02:12 10 of 15 from the four, 11 of 12 from the charity stripe for the big man for Indiana.
02:19 (upbeat music)
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