It is 1 o'clock on a kind of snowy day in Indianapolis. For that matter, it's 1 o'clock

everywhere in the Eastern Time Zone. My name is Jay Quarry. Eddie Garrison is the CEO of the

Quarry and Company Company. He is the guy manning the controls. Jimmy Cook, the president of the

company. And an honorary board member, because he joins us on a regular regular basis is Tony East, who of course is

from locked on Pacers, Forbes as well. He joins us on the Express Pro Tire and Auto Guest Line after the

Pacers flat performance again last night against the Houston Rockets. They're very short-handed,

admittedly. But Tony, I'll bring you right into the primary conversation, and that is if you had

to pinpoint it,

I don't know that any of us definitively know, but the root cause of Tyrese Halliburton's

slowed down play would be what?

Yeah, everybody's got their own theories, and there's kind of a lot of things that I guess I could give

some sort of thought to, but to me, because I can see him playing

and see him sitting on the bench, injuries is by far my leading candidate of why this could

be happening and why it looks the way it does, you know, both between the fact that we can see

him with whatever pad or device he's wearing, not every game, but some games when he's out, wrapped around his

lower back and that he's sitting on like a cushion thing to be elevated in certain ways on the

bench. Okay, I can see that, but like maybe he got hit in a certain way of those games or something

like that. But also I can see him playing and not being able to create the same separation

he did last year and being more upright

like all the time without as much surge to go forward it just looks different than the rest of the

years of his career so is it possible this is a slump related to his contract reality is it fame

getting to his head like it's possible i don't think his head? Like, it's possible. I don't think those

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