Following me on this journey won’t always be fun but will hopefully prove insightful and valuable nevertheless. I don’t know how many times I’ve written this sentence but here it goes one more time:
The 2017-18 Indiana Pacers wildly exceeded expectations. They were expected to be a bubble playoff team at best, led by upcoming center Myles Turner surrounded by a lot of mediocre role players.
Instead Victor Oladipo made a leap to All-NBA, Darren Collison led the league in three-point percentage, Bojan Bogdanovic and Thaddeus Young played 80 games of 30 plus minutes while averaging double-digit points per game and Domantas Sabonis become one of the league’s best bench players.