{"id":8330,"date":"2023-01-17T07:03:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/pacers-vs-thunder-nba-game-preview-jan-18-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-01-17T07:03:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T07:03:43","slug":"pacers-vs-thunder-nba-game-preview-jan-18-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/pacers-vs-thunder-nba-game-preview-jan-18-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacers vs. Thunder &#8211; NBA Game Preview &#8211; Jan. 18, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Indiana Pacers (23-22, 8th Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (21-23, 11th Western Conference)<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Oklahoma City; Wednesday, 8 PM ET<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Conclusion: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander leads Oklahoma City against Indiana. He ranked his fifth in the NBA, scoring 30.7 points per game.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">The Thunder are 13-9 in home games. Oklahoma City has him scoring 55.4 points per game in the paint, led by Gilgeous his Alexander averaging 15.0, and he ranks third in his Western conference.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">The Pacers are 8-13 away from home. Indiana ranks him fifth in the Eastern Conference, with him shooting 36.5% from his three-point range.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Top performer: Josh Guiddy is averaging 16 points, 8 rebounds and 5.7 assists for the Thunder.  Gilgeous-Alexander is averaging 26.9 points over his last 10 games for Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Buddy Hield averaged 3.9 3-pointers per game for the Pacers, scoring 18.0 points and shooting 42.6%. Tyrese Haliburton is averaging 18.1 points and 7.8 assists over his last 10 games for Indiana.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Last 10 games: Thunder: 6-4, averaging 120.1 points, 43.6 rebounds, 24.0 assists, 8.5 steals, 4.9 blocks, 47.5% shooting from the field. Opponents are scoring an average of 113.6 points per game.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Pacers: 5-5, averaging 119.3 points, 42.3 rebounds, 26.6 assists, 7.9 steals, 6.2 blocks, 46.6% field goal percentage. Opponents are scoring an average of 120.3 points.<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Injuries: Thunder: Chet Holmgren: out (foot), Usman Dien: out (wrist), Alexei Poksevski: out (leg), Eugene Omolly: days (back), Jeremiah Robinson-Ahr: out ( ankle).<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">Pacers: Daniel Theis: out (knee), Tyrese Halliburton: out (elbow\/knee), Kendall Brown: out (leg).<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">&#8212;&#8212;<\/p>\n<p xmlns=\"http:\/\/iptc.org\/std\/NITF\/2006-10-18\/\">The Associated Press produced this article using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiMGh0dHA6Ly93d3cuZXNwbi5jb20vbmJhL3ByZXZpZXc_Z2FtZUlkPTQwMTQ2ODgyOdIBAA?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Indiana Pacers (23-22, 8th Eastern Conference) vs. Oklahoma City Thunder (21-23, 11th Western Conference) Oklahoma City; Wednesday, 8 PM ET Conclusion: Shai Gilgeous-Alexander leads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8331,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/401468829.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}