Simon Dalton presents his prediction for the NBA match.
Indiana Pacers
The Pacers’ results directly depend on how efficient their 3-points attempts are. It has been around 41,8% during their recent 6-game winning series. Half of these attempts have been made by Aaron Nesmith and Myles Turner. They didn’t manage to score neither of their 12 3-points shots on Sunday in the game versus Boston Celtics (101:118). The Pacers are hardly to make good attempts to score without their main organiser of attacking actions.
Washington Wizards
The Wizards can win many of the remaining games in January. They are to play against the teams with the negative balance of wins and defeats on 6 out of their following 9 occasions. They have won 5 out of the last 6 games against such opponents this season. Indiana without Haliburton are something of the same level.
Indiana Pacers – Washington Wizards prediction
The injury of the Pacers’ leader Tyrese Haliburton isn’t that awful as it seemed on the screen. However, he will have to miss a couple of weeks. We could see the way the Pacers played without Haliburton in the games against Minnesota (109:127) and Boston (104:155). The Wizards are the team of another level but the Pacers won’t manage to beat them with a big lead.
The Wizards are OK with playing fast basketball, the thing that is offered by the Pacers. The Wizards won their previous head-to-head game in the middle of December (137:123) and they can do the same again.
