Indiana Pacers @ Atlanta Hawks
Friday, January 12, 2024 at 7:30 PM ET
State Farm Arena, Atlanta, GA | Game ID: 22300533
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Final
ATL 30 32 19 27 108IND 34 34 31 27 126
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Pacers overcome Haliburton's absence to beat Hawks 126-108
ATLANTA -- — Buddy Hield and Obi Toppin each scored 18 points and the Indiana Pacers overcame star Tyrese Haliburton 's absence with balanced scoring, beating Atlanta 126-108 on Friday night to continue their season dominance over the Hawks.
Indiana scored at least 150 points while winning each of its first two games of the season against Atlanta, including a 150-116 rout on Jan. 5 at Indianapolis. Due to those two games, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle was braced for a “haymaker” from the Hawks.
Instead, the Pacers were dominant again even without Haliburton en route to their third straight victory. Indiana, fourth in the Eastern Conference, has won nine of its last 10.
Haliburton, the NBA assists leader, missed his second straight game because of a strained left hamstring.
“Two wins without Tyrese, that's really important,” Carlisle said.
Bennedict Mathurin added 15 points for Indiana, which had eight players in double figures. The Pacers shot a season-high 67.1% from the field, making 53 of 79 shots and had a 44-28 rebounding advantage. T.J. McConnell had a season-high 14 assists.
The Pacers had 41 assists.
“I think that's our MO, really, on offense,” said Andrew Nembhard , who had 10 points and seven assists. Nembhard said the ability “to have a lot of guys score some points, we get to be ourselves.”
The Pacers outscored the Hawks 76-48 in the paint.
“One of the things we do is score in the paint,” Nembhard said.
Atlanta coach Quin Snyder described the inability to defend near the basket as “the most glaring thing” in the loss.
The Pacers made 63.8% of their shots in the Jan. 5 runaway win, which was then the highest percentage allowed by the Hawks this season. Indiana topped that mark Friday.
“I'm not a big stats guy,” Carlisle said. “It's what you're feeling from the vibe of the group. Right now we really understand everyone in that room.”
Dejounte Murray , the subject of NBA trade deadline speculation, led the Hawks with 29 points. Saddiq Bey had 17 and Jalen Johnson added 16.
Atlanta’s Trae Young , second in the All-Star voting behind Haliburton among Eastern Conference guards, had 13 points and six assists. He was 4 of 17 shots from the field.
“He's a great player and we're giving him a lot of attention,” Carlisle said about Young. “He had some looks that he normally makes that didn't go in. ... He's one of the real surgeons in our game offensively. He can dice you up so many ways.”
Young and Bogdan Bogdanovic , who had 10 points, became the first teammates to each make their 1,000th career 3-pointer in the same game.
After leading 68-62 at halftime, the Pacers outscored the Hawks 31-19 in the third period.
“The third quarter was tremendous to create separation that we needed,” Carlisle said.
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Who
Who is who
the initials in the Players column
ATLAG A. Griffin
BB B. Bogdanović
BF B. Fernando
BO Bogdanovic
CC C. Capela
DM D. Murray
JJ J. Johnson
OO O. Okongwu
PM P. Mills
SB S. Bey
SL S. Lundy
TF T. Forrest
TY T. Young
INDAN A. Nembhard
AN A. Nesmith
BB B. Brown
BH B. Hield
BM B. Mathurin
IJ I. Jackson
JN J. Nwora
JS J. Smith
KB K. Brown
MT M. Turner
OT O. Toppin
OT O. Tshiebwe
TM T. McConnell
ATL/IND the team itself, not a player
-- the feed named nobody
What
What happened
the codes in the Events column
M2 / M3 made 2 / made 3
X2 / X3 missed 2 / missed 3
FT / X1 free throw made / missed
AST assist
OR / DR offensive / defensive rebound
STL steal
BLK block
TO turnover
FL foul
OF offensive foul — ends the possession
VIOL violation
JUMP jump ball
TM timeout
IR instant replay
HE heave at the buzzer, filed to the team
Where
Where a shot came from
the middle field of M3.LW.25
RM at the rim inside 4 ft
RC right corner
RW right wing
SO straight on
LW left wing
LC left corner
M3.LW.25 made 3, left wing, 25 ft
X2.RM.01 missed 2, at the rim, 1 ft
When
When it happened
the Offset column
one number per event, in the Events order:
whole seconds from the start of the
possession to that event
Events FL X3.RC.23 OR M2.RM.01
Offset 0 18 22 24
the foul opens the possession at 0s;
the putback ends it at 24s, which is
the possession's own Dur