Frustrating start to the season for Myles Turner. After a 2021/22 season cut short by a broken left foot, followed by several months of absence, the Pacers pivot intended to celebrate his return last night, in front of his audience.
Except that an unlikely ankle injury, which occurred during warm-up by falling on the foot… of a “ballboy”, deprived him of the opening match of the 2022/23 season. and will deprive him of the first week of competition.
A first game narrowly lost by the Pacers against the Wizards (114-107), largely due to a catastrophic defense. Glaring gaps in their half of the field, which then remind us, after a single small game, how essential Myles Turner will be on this side of the field, in this young squad still far too naive on defensive rotations and too tender in the paint.
” We made some really, really nasty mistakes. In particular on ‘switches’ after the screens, which offered our opponents ready-made baskets near the circle. We have to settle this », noted, bitter, Rick Carlisle.
Without the deterrence in front of the circle usually provided by Myles Turner, the Pacers did indeed take on water, especially in the face of the size of Kristaps Porzingis and the penetrations of Bradley Beal, Kyle Kuzma and Will Barton. They were also dominated in the rebound battle (66 against 54), conceding many second chances.
” They took a lot of shots in the paint and Myles would have blocked or at least hindered most of those shots. In defense, he changes the face of the match »added his young lining, Isaiah Jackson.
While many rumors sent him elsewhere this summer, Myles Turner only needed one game, in which he did not even play, to confirm his obvious usefulness in this early reconstruction of the Pacers.
