(Cream of the Crop is a recurring series that zeroes-in on something super cool that hasn’t been talked about enough. And, yes, we realize there is more than corn in Indiana, but this is Indy Cornrows and you have to let us live!)
From a team standpoint, not much has seemed new about the new-look Pacers. They have seven new faces, and they’ve played four new starting lineups as a result of various injuries, but their calculus for winning has mostly seemed like a retread from last season with the math less likely to add up.