Dallas will try to steady the ship at home against the Pacers and old friend Rick Carlisle after surrendering a 27-point lead in a loss to the Lakers, the worst in the league this year.
There’s plenty of blame to go around for how that game went, but hopefully Kyrie Irving in particular can bounce back from what was his first real stinker of a game in a Dallas uniform.
The Pacers, for their part, aren’t exactly setting the world on fire either. Just 3-7 over the last 10 and a 9-20 record on the road this year, if you were to handpick a team to get their mind right against, you could do a lot worse than the Pacers.