The Pacers must cope with out their star participant Tyrese Haliburton for all the 2025-26 season and probably past, however coach Carlisle is attempting to embrace it.
“Our followers this 12 months are going to be in for a really attention-grabbing 12 months,” Carlisle stated on the Bas”ketball She Wrote” podcast . “It’s going to be a workforce that appears fairly totally different. I don’t assume it may be overstated how nice of a participant Tyrese Haliburton is. … We’re going to overlook Tyrese rather a lot. Persons are going to seek out out. I understand how nice he’s. Sadly I’m going to seek out out much more how nice he’s by not having him with us this 12 months.”
Carlisle added, “Pascal is now going to turn into extra of a major ball-handler.”
The coach says a extra bodily model will likely be key.
“Our recreation this 12 months is gonna look totally different,” Carlisle stated. “There are going to be instances it doesn’t look fairly. We’re going to be extra bodily. I feel we’re going to be a extra bodily defensive workforce, all these sorts of issues. However issues are gonna change.”
One consideration is the burden being positioned on Andrew Nembhard, who has been beginning at capturing guard however will transfer to level guard to fill the Haliburton hole.
“Drew goes to have to regulate some,” Carlisle stated. “He’s going to have to keep up his aggression defensively, as a result of he likes to defend. This man is a freak, OK, he doesn’t say (expletive) to anyone. … However we gotta defend Andrew. If we’re going into this 12 months and saying he’s going to play 37 minutes, that’s not gonna occur. He’s going to must be within the low 30s. T.J. goes to must have one other nice 12 months and we’re going to must have a 3rd man prepared.”
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