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The Indiana Pacers Try To Break Losing Streak Against The Chicago Bulls
The Indiana Pacers Try To Break Losing Streak Against The Chicago BullsThe Indiana Pacers are a young team and experiencing some growing pains. Thos pains are currently in the form of a collapse at the end of January that has led to a long losing streak. They hope to turn things around to end the month when they face the Chicago Bulls.


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According to beat writer Jared Wade, the Pacers are playing losing basketball due to a lack of effort on defense. They have given up at least 97 points in each of the past six outings, a stretch of futility during which they have allowed an average of 108.7 points per game. The FG% defense isn’t any better with an average FG% allowed of 49.0%. The one good showing came up in Portland, where they held the Blazers to 42.2%, but the other five squads have all shot north of 45% — with four of them finishing above the 50% mark. (The worst was the 54.3% allowed to the Clippers.) And they haven’t been much better protecting the perimeter, giving up at least 10 threes in each of their last three games.

Danny Granger identified what is the most obvious reason for the recent defensive futility: Roy Hibbert has not played well enough to keep himself on the court, and the team is much harder to score on when he is clogging up the interior. Now things will only get tougher against the Bulls.

Despite a illness to star point guard Derrick Rose, the Bulls are playing great basketball. They sit atop the Central division and they are fighting for the top seed in the Eastern Conference.

The Pacers seem to have given up on the season and are coasting into the All-Star break. The Bulls take advantage with a big blowout win against the defenseless Pacers.

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