Last summer, almost no one expected the Indiana Pacers to be competitive in the 2017-18 season. It was supposed to be a year of growth, letting Victor Oladipo become a No. 1 scoring option again, grooming Myles Turner into becoming “the guy,” and seeing what they had in Domantas Sabonis and Glenn Robinson III.
Instead, the Pacers are six games over .500 and the Eastern Conference’s sixth seed.
Indiana has overachieved, and often times the front office of an overachiever will hold things together until the team settles to what it actually is.