It took an elimination game and a 3-0 deficit as motivation, but the Minnesota Timberwolves made some adjustments and

get to go home for another game. Welcome to the Fantasy NBA Today

podcast a sports ethos presentation hosted by yours truly Aaron Bruski

and FSWA Hall of Famer Steve Dr A Alexander today we're going to give the

Indiana Pacers a quick send-off and then dive into what we've learned after

four games in the West because even if Minnesota isn't likely to advance perhaps we've learned

something about these Dallas Mavericks and tomorrow we're going to talk about

fantasy players that just did it, which is a great topic, let me tell you.

And before we get it all of that, I do hope you like and subscribe to the show so we can

continue to establish value-centric content and we can be the path forward in this

industry rather than sort of the look-at-me influencer stuff that's good for one or two

people. With that out of the way, let me welcome in Steve, Dr. A. Alexander.

I think we need to go right to the Indiana Pacers because they've probably fallen out of

everybody's memory banks, but when you look back at these playoffs are you happy that they over achieved?

Are you concerned about how they lost and what's your takeaway for these guys going

forward? Well one I had them in the Eastern Conference Finals in my pre-season predictions.

So they didn't overachieve in my book. They got to exactly where I thought they were going to get to, mainly because I felt like they had a good mix of youth and veterans on that team I felt like Rick Carlisle was the right coach for the

patients at the right time Tyrese Halliburton is you know at the beginning of a season he was on the verge of becoming a full-blown

superstar I'm not sure he lived up to all the heavy expectations that were put on him. But I really wasn't that surprised they

they got that far. I was highly disappointed by the fact they had a 90% probability of winning three of those

four playoff games against the Celtics with something like five or six minutes left in the

game and choked all three of those

...