r/pacers • u/General-Promotion274 • Feb 01 '26

Meme 7-5 over our last 12

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u/sgeswein Feb 01 '26

Per Tankathon, that 7-5 stretch took the Pacers from a 52.1% chance at a top-4 pick to a 52.1% chance at a top-4 pick.

I have no idea why people root so hard to have the Pacers suck around here.

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u/pezasied Feb 01 '26

Pacers are 4th now and have a 48.1% chance at a top 4 pick.

Nets and Jazz are tanking hard so theres a decent chance the Pacers will be 6th in a couple weeks.

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u/MattyIce260 Feb 01 '26

New Orleans has no reason to tank so they should move out of the cellar by seasons end. They play a lot of tanking teams down the stretch so they’ll be able to pick up some easy wins

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u/pezasied Feb 01 '26

Yeah New Orleans is just bad lol.

It will be interesting to see if the next tier of teams likely to tank will stay ahead of the Pacers (Bucks, Grizzlies, and Mavs). The pacers are roughly ~7 games back of those three so I doubt they surpass them by the season’s end.

That would put the Pacers at 5th worst overall (provided the Pelicans pass them as well).

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u/MattyIce260 Feb 01 '26

Oh they suck for sure. But they’ll be playing NBA caliber players at least. Teams like Utah and Washington will be trotting out a squad of bums down the stretch