Milwaukee Bucks Game Preview: March 10 vs Indiana Pacers

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Feb 4, 2017; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Indiana Pacers guard C.J. Miles(0) points during a game against the Detroit Pistons at Bankers Life Fieldhouse. Mandatory Credit: Brian Spurlock-USA TODAY Sports /

Major Key For Indiana: Get Hot From Deep

The Indiana Pacers are not a great three-point shooting team. In fact, the Pacers hardly ever even try to score from beyond the arc. Indiana attempts 22.8 threes per game, worse than all but two NBA teams this season.

That’s a shame, because the Pacers are actually pretty good at nailing those triples. They rank sixth among all teams in three-point percentage, maybe due to how carefully Indiana picks spots to shoot threes.

The Pacers have five players who make 35 percent or more of their threes: C.J. Miles (a known Bucks killer, by the way), Glenn Robinson, Thaddeus Young, Paul George and Myles Turner.

If those five can each make two threes, Indiana will have much better odds of winning. When the Pacers make ten or more threes in a game this season they’re 16-9. Again, “More threes increase the odds of a team winning” is hardly a newsflash, but it’s worth mentioning here about a team that barely shoots them.

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