Houston Rockets vs Indiana Pacers Prediction, Tips & Odds – 27.12.2023

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December 26, 2023

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Houston Rockets vs Indiana Pacers Prediction 27.12.2023. In Houston, a duel is played between two teams that force diametrically opposite styles of play. The home Rockets, who are one of the best defenses in the NBA, welcome the Indiana Pacers, who are the most efficient team in the league.

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Houston Rockets vs Indiana Pacers Odds

Houston Rockets Team News

Ime Udoka with the Rockets continues to show that he is one of the best young professionals in the NBA and that his results with the Celtics were no coincidence and that he can produce great results with a realistically limited and young team like the Rockets. The Rockets lineup doesn’t have any big names, but they play real team basketball. Especially this season, the Turkish national team member Sengun and the combo guard Jaleen Green, who are the team’s leaders, stood out. Also, they strengthened the team with two experienced players, Brooks and Van Fleet, who were brought in primarily to strengthen the defensive quality in the back positions and defense on the perimeter.

The Rockets are one of the best defenses in the league, and that’s all because of their fantastic team defense and adjustment to the opponent. They are currently in an excellent 8th place in the West with an almost 15-12 record, which compared to previous seasons is a great success because they were the worst team in the conference for a couple of years in a row. In the last ten matches, they recorded as many as seven victories, and in the last two matches they defeated first the Mavs, limiting them to only 98 points, and then the Pelicans away.

They have to catch the Pacers in their rhythm and slow them down as much as possible, because if they start running and the fast rhythm of the game, the Pacers will “eat” them. We believe that Udoka prepared the Rockets from the very beginning to play hard and to make a key difference with their defense.

Indiana Pacers Team News

The Pacers somewhat unexpectedly found themselves at the very end of the historic finals of the NBA Cup, and in that period of the season they played great basketball, but lately, they have been in a big decline as far as form is concerned. It is a very young and talented team that will soon be one of the main contenders in the East. However, he will have to work a lot on defense. They don’t bother to play it at all and receive a huge number of points. Although they are by far the best and most efficient team in the league and lead the league in all important attacking parameters, the attack cannot follow up and “fix” all the defensive failures they have. The leader of the Pacers team is Tyrese Haliburton, who is the league’s best assister, and he averages 25 points. What particularly adorns Haliburton is the ratio of assists and turnovers, for 12 assists, there are only 2 turnovers on average.

The Pacers have big problems when they come across a team that plays solid defense and controlled attacks, and that doesn’t allow them to play much in transition and on more possessions. In the last two matches, the Grizzlies and Magic played exactly that way and limited the Pacers to fewer points, which was the main cause of the Pacers’ defeat in both matches.

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Review

Houston Rockets vs Indiana Pacers H2H

10.03.23 – Pacers : Rockets – 134:125

19.11.22 – Rockets : Pacers – 91:99

Injuries and suspensions

Houston Rockets: Oladipo, Bullock, Eason.

Indiana Pacers: Brown(?).