Minnesota Timberwolves vs Indiana Pacers Prediction, Tips & Odds – Dec. 17, 2023

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December 16, 2023

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Minnesota Timberwolves vs Indiana Pacers Prediction 17.12.2023. Two diametrically opposed teams meet in the Target Center. The home Timberwolves, who are the best defensive team in the league and who play at a slow pace and break their opponents with their defense, welcome the Pacers, who play at the fastest pace of all N B A teams.

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Minnesota Timberwolves vs Indiana Pacers Odds

Minnesota Timberwolves Team News

The Wolves play great basketball this season and together with the Celtics are the best team in the entire league. Excellent results and victories are brought to them above all by a quality defense. The whole team is designed so that they do not have a “defensive hole” in any position, because of this the entire defense is tight and their intensity does not drop for a single moment. This season they allow only 105.7 points on average. Conley and Alexander-Walker keep the intensity in the guard positions, while the real defensive wall in the racket is Rudy Gobert, who is one of the best rim protectors in the league.

What is most important for the Timberwolves is that they are not dependent on just one player in attack. This was best seen in the last match against the Mavs when the team’s main player and scorer Anthony Edwards failed, but it was not felt in the result. Edwards shot 3/19 from the field, but Naz Reid had a career game with 27 points, while KAT added 21 points and 17 rebounds.

Against the Pacers, they will not be allowed to enter the run and gun basketball but will have to play controlled attacks in order not to open the game in transition for the Pacers.

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— Minnesota Timberwolves (@Timberwolves) December 15, 2023

Indiana Pacers Team News

The Pacers played a great Cup competition, but in the end, they couldn’t beat the Lakers. They succumbed to the pressure and failed to play in their rhythm, more precisely a match with a large number of points. However, this is a very young and talented team that will soon be one of the main contenders in the East. Pacers 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. In the match against the Bucks, they were defeated very convincingly, where they received 140 points, and Giannis himself scored 64 points for them, breaking the franchise record for the number of points.

The leader of the Pacers team is Tyrese Haliburton, who is the league’s best assister, and at the same time scores 26 points on average. What particularly adorns Haliburton is the ratio of assists and turnovers, for 12 assists, there are only 2 turnovers on average. The Pacers played a match against the Wizards last night and were defeated by 14 points, and again they conceded a large number of points, 137 to be exact.

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— Indiana Pacers (@Pacers) December 15, 2023

Minnesota Timberwolves vs Indiana Pacers H2H

08.12.22 – Timberwolves : Pacers – 121:115

24.11.22 – Pacers : Timberwolves – 101:115

Injuries and suspensions

Minnesota Timberwolves: Clark.

Indiana Pacers: Nembhard, Smith.