The Pacers are like a new dress shirt, all folded up and pinned together. Their look is fresh and promising, but they need time to iron out the wrinkles. And, frankly, four preseason games won't be enough.
Thus, turnovers.
They had 27 of them in Friday's 105-87 victory over Chicago, after piling up 24 and 20 in the wins over Sacramento in India last weekend. That's not good, but it's also not surprising this time of the year with a team still getting unwrapped.
Chicago rested four veterans – Zach Lavine, Lauri Markkanen, Tomas Satoransky and former Pacer Thad Young - and four other players with injuries, leaving behind a young and unproven makeshift group that should not have been able to challenge the Pacers, and mostly didn't.