The new bench should be better than the last

With just three simple moves the Pacers improved one of the league’s worst bench units into one of the best. They posted a -2.6 net rating last season, the 17th best rating in the league.

At first glance its not terrible, but the Pacers’ net rating was 1.5 points lower than the 16th-best Pelicans. If you look at the list of 10-20th ranked bench units in the NBA year the Pacers are a lot closer to 20th than they are 16th.

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Based on all the offseason moves Kevin Pritchard made, it seems obvious that the singular goal was to increase the Pacers’ depth. Outside of Kyle O’Quinn, the Pacers signed bench players Tyreke Evans and Doug McDermott, both of whom play a similar style to the…