Thursday, February 6, 2014

Heat or Pacers

Looking back on the first part of the year, the obvious contenders for the Eastern Confrence Championship are the Indiana Pacers and Miami Heat. The Pacers and the Heat are alike in many ways. Paul George is the Pacers LeBron, Hill is their Chalmers, Hibbert is their Bosh. One thing that bothers me about the Pacers are the turnovers, but better offences like the Heat have the same or more turnovers per game. The Heat score an average of 6 points more a game then the Pacers, but have the same amount of turnovers. Another thing that I've noticed is the defensive/hustle stats. The Pacers get almost 6 more defensive rebounds per game, but the Heat have 2.02 more steals. Other then those stats everything else is relatively close. One other factor is the swagger and type of play of these two teams. The Pacers have more of a blue collar attitude of "defense wins championships". The Heat are a flashy run and gun team that will out score you if you want to play that way. In conclusion I believe that right now the Heat are better then the Pacers, but that is soon to change.