Tyrese Haliburton, Aaron Nesmith, Myles Turner, Pascal Siakam excluded

The Pacers did not have a great opportunity to put together a schedule and work on it while they are on the road and broken off on Friday and Saturday evening in Philadelphia and Milwaukee. They released Sunday and had an optional shootaround on Monday to put together installation combinations that they didn’t have all season.

“Obviously it is difficult to get these players out,” said Sheppard. “But it is a good opportunity for the rest of the boys to pick up each other and simply play freely and simply play pacer basketball.

Having Out out with Siakam, Haliburton, Turner and Nesmith also means that the Pacers are missing four of their five best scorers. Siakam leads the team both in the hit and 20.9 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. Haliburton is second with 18.5 points and occupies fourth place in the NBA with 9.0 assists per game and has a nine-game series of points assisters with 119 assists compared to 10 sales since the All-Star break.

Turner scores an average of 15.5 points per game to reach 6.4 rebounds and 1.8 blocks per game. Nesmith achieved an average of 11.2 points per game, including 16.2 per game since the All-Star break. He scored a career high of 30 points against the Bucks on Saturday.