Indiana Pacers Postgame Media Availability at Boston Celtics (Game 1) | May 21, 2024

Rick Carlisle, Tyrese Haliburton, Pascal Siakam, and Myles Turner speak with the media following the Pacers 133-128 overtime loss to the Celtics in Game 1.
0:00 - Rick Carlisle
5:28 - Tyrese Haliburton
11:18 - Pascal Siakam
15:27 - Myles Turner

[@saintanubis6177]

We played great and blew it at the end. Now that we see what we can do, let's tone down the TO's, make smarter plays and passes, and we can steal the next one. Keep playing with confidence, we can do this. Go Pacers !

[@nikkijohnson983]

We are a young team. It’s unfortunate, but learn from it and move on. That all we can do. Regardless of how the rest of the series goes down I’m super proud of this team. I never imagined at the beginning of the season we’d still be rooting for our Pacers in the ECF. And they proved tonight that they are deserving to be here. they didn’t just make it cuz of playing injured teams. Not many teams can keep up with Boston and we did! Go Pacers!

[@Braylenc123]

@@nikkijohnson983the pacers youth has reared its ugly head multiple times this playoff run, part of learning how to win… we’ll see how they respond. it’s not a single elimination and they still gotta come back to indiana

[@TheBaptized]

​@@nikkijohnson983facts tired of hearing that STUPID INJURY EXCUSE!!!

[@dahhmlife]

For the last two days everyone has been saying we were going to get blown out. We had no chance. Just imagine how it will look when things start to fall into place. Proud of this team! Fought hard to the end. Regroup and get game two!! Go Pacers!!

[@rickc4229]

Now they’re calling us frauds for losing, and chokers 😂😂😂 rent free

[@Braylenc123]

@@rickc4229it’s crazy, pacers could sweep boston and people would still be saying “who cares about indiana”

[@ronbxmb]

LOL keep coping

[@ronbxmb]

@@rickc4229 I'm loving every bit of this choke job. Do it again!

[@tylerthomas6235]

Pacers Winning Game 2. I’m a Heat fan and I hate the Celtics

[@cryptic_conman3149]

Take a deep breath. Learn from it. and come back with a vengeance on Thursday! It took 22 turnovers by us and and 20 more FTA for them and a Herculean shot by Brown at the end to force OT. WE CAN WIN THIS THING! GO PACERS!!!

[@TheBaptized]

Yea I'm tired of the media and everybody doubting us and not giving us credit. I bet they not gone doubting now after us barely losing smh

[@Chris-ct6mu]

Feel em out first game. Foot on neck for the next

[@hoosierdaddy5846]

Have faith pacer fans.. tough loss but we have such a great young superstar. He WILL learn from this. Don't run him out of Indiana you clowns.

[@N_B_MMA]

I don't see anyone running him out of indy ever

[@Braylenc123]

tyrese has been our guy since he’s been here, even through the month and a half he looked like a G league player. a couple turnovers isn’t gonna change that. after all they wouldn’t of been here if it wasn’t for him.

[@DannyNoonan74]

I thought it was awesome that he paid tribute to Reggie Miller with the sweatshirt choke pic in the postgame interview after his game 7 masterpiece victory in Madison Square Garden! They have the talent to beat the Celtics. The future looks bright for the Indiana Pacers!

[@TheBaptized]

​@DannyNoonan74 We got this! We better than what everybody thinks we are! 💪🏾

[@hoosierdaddy5846]

People in these comments need to relax.. yes we choked the game away. But it's a learning experience for our young team. We can turn this around easily. The fact we're here should be making you proud enough. Nothing about tonight was "shameful." It was upsetting but we're in such a good place for the now n the years to come.

[@traffik180]

The one thing I can say about your pacers. Is this the first healthy team y'all played and played well. I don't think y'all gonna win, but you will give the pacers a run for their money.

[@hoosierdaddy5846]

@@traffik180 you're the true definition of a troll 🤣 you knick fans are crazy

[@Braylenc123]

@@traffik180they coulda beat milwaukee fully healthy if it wasn’t their first playoff series. knicks are tough i’ve been saying the pacers or knicks are the 2nd best team in the conference so i’m not surprised it went 7 even with injuries.

[@79glane928]

I disagree. You cant give games away. You dont learn to win by losing, thats a myth.

[@hoosierdaddy5846]

@79glane928 tell that to kobe.. he air balled 3 to 5 shots his rookie year in the playoffs. His career turned out pretty fucking amazing. Clearly you don't know ball.. n if you actually played at any level you'd understand this to be true as well.

[@charronelliott9764]

Learn from this and win this series. Young team, a lot of mistakes but the game was ours. Love this team ! We can do this ! 💙💛

[@reRunDMC]

That was a great game!

[@saintanubis6177]

Rick wanted to call out the refs but coaches dont make that much money. If I had the money I'd pay the fine for him. 30 free throws for Boston, 10 for Pacers. Ridiculous!

[@aflacktime5785]

Should’ve won this game wasn’t refs fault it was choked away sadly

[@Anonymous-le1pt]

@@aflacktime5785 wtf! What game were you watching? They were only in this game cuz the refs helped them!

[@pennyrey1448]

@@aflacktime5785bro you won the game, don’t go making outrageous claims 😂 Tatum was no where to be seen until the 4th there is no reason the game should have been that close for the Celtics especially since they had 20 more free throws… it really should have been a blow out 💀 and yall actin like you did sum

[@aflacktime5785]

@@Anonymous-le1pt yeah but up 3 20 seconds with ball it’s unacceptable to lose in my opinion pacers will win game 2 so it’s okay

[@Anonymous-le1pt]

@@aflacktime5785 it's no guarantee Pacers win Game 2. We just gotta hope the whistle is fair honestly. But you're right, Pacers blundered at the end of the regulation regardless of FT disparities.

[@bettyful77]

It’s a heartbreaking loss though winning to Celtics is not far fetched, you all have positive learnings towards losing. Cheers Pacers, you still did a good job, still a good game!

[@79glane928]

Ty has got to stop backing up all the damn time. You dont respond to pressure by backing up. He needs to attack the basket more.

[@Swissshh]

It's an escape dribble and allows him to make last second reads.

[@79glane928]

Ok but he does it constantly and it makes him predictable.

[@Tony.aussiecoltsfan]

Maybe we won't give them a 12 point start on Thurs

[@scoobeedo991]

Wow! I'm a Kings fan and I can tell you we lost many games to stupid mistakes, but now I see we're not the only ones. Tyrese! What are you doing! Taking that 3 with a minute to go and 15 on the shot clock.. then you turn it over.. and what is the coach thinking.. advance the ball .. call a timeout. It amazes me the lack of time management in the NBA. I guess it's only done in the NFL and NHL.

[@Braylenc123]

young teams will be young. realization of the moment got to them when they realized they had the game.

[@kennethlegson925]

It's always been a learning curve for this team. Siakam and to some extent Turner showed them on G1 that hey, we can score on this mfs[Milwaukee], so get comfortable. Again on the Knicks series, they learned that you got to be up on Brunson's face to defend him. But the one thing we never learn is not making the right decisions on big time, not fouling Middleton, not calling a timeout to get a safe inbound play and get FTs[Coaching staff decision making is a bit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣]. Let's go Pacers! I know we can win it next game.

[@Shabatwo]

Accountability and staying together. I love this team.

[@Tony.aussiecoltsfan]

Shocked how we lost this game. Turnovers for no reason 😑

[@jdek88]

There were 4-5 at least that weren’t even really forced turnovers, just completely unnecessary.

[@tony1876]

The Pacers choked this game away. Unbelievable

[@Peacekeepa317]

We lost game 1 in the last 2 rounds too. If you don't have faith in the team at this point, you never will

[@jdek88]

Embarrassing finish. Officiating again, super lopsided. How does the best offense in the league shoot 6 FTs in regulation? Keep in mind, we were down 0-2 to the Knicks. I felt way less confident against the Knicks after Game 1-2 than I do against the Celtics matchup. They had virtually no answers.

[@pump5991]

Great game despite the loss…all just extra reps for the young guys at this stage…should continue to attack Horford in the series

[@MikeKelsoJr]

This is a tough loss !! It seems typical !! It just always seems when it comes to the Pacers in playoffs !! Never good enough !? 😔thru the years in NBA !! To win a title !?

[@saintanubis6177]

We arent suppose to be this far tho, we have over achieved and it looks like we can still go further. Keep faith in them, they can still win the series. Just gotta steal 1 game. 1 lucky shot is all it takes

[@zebertbrown1517]

A errant inbound pass cost the Pacers the game in regulation up 3 with 8 seconds left. Terrible mistake at the wrong time. That and too many turnovers. Regardless, my boys played well and should have won Game 1. The Celtics didn't beat them. They beat themselves. Fix the errors; come back a win Game 2.

[@mr.editson]

Huge gut punch 😭

[@normagrijalva3594]

Pascal was grabbed by brown before Andrew inbounded the ball

[@jdek88]

Yeah but they aren’t calling that, nor should they. Not even worth bringing that up. We don’t deserve that game.

[@g.b.alejandro6268]

dont worry I'll call out AwakenBeerus for you

[@robertwhite8194]

I love these players! They say the perfect things.

[@justincooper5647]

Turner and these sunglasses in a press conference is killing me must be bright in there lol

[@dashcola7522]

They only won by shooting fouls 💀

[@01NATHAN10]

im sad

[@kingarchnyc]

He was fined $35k in the previous round

[@MrMagnaniman]

Yeah. THat was when they were calling people for kicking balls with their hands. That didn't happen tonight.

[@jdek88]

@@MrMagnanimanbut the best offensive in the league shot 6 FTs in regulation. Really??

[@MrMagnaniman]

@@jdek88 What do free throws and offensive rating have to do with each other? I say this as a Pacers fan... The Pacers really need to stop fouling so much. This idea that both teams commit the same number of fouls, and that any unequal amount of called fouls is rigging, is flat out wrong.

[@harpoon_bakery162]

embarrassing loss. the chance of losing with 8.5 seconds to go and a 3-point lead WITH THE BALL is 3.7586% (just call it 4%) .... just shameful. Or something like it hasn't happened in the last 243 times that same situation was present. The series is over because you just cannot come back from something like this against the Celtics, the series was defined in Game 1. Look for a convincing loss to the Celtics on Thursday, Pacers quickly down 0-2 and this ain't the banged up KNICKS. They really screwed up about 4 different things in the last 37 seconds. With less than 10 seconds on the clock with a 3-point lead AND the ball, if you have a time-out left, you use it to get the ball down the court to your side, no question about it, it's a no-brainer, it's in the book and Carlisle admitted he f-ed it up. You then just make sure you have a tall player inbound to a tall player on the court and simply play keep away, game over every day of the week. Instead Carlisle pulls this nonsense allowing a ridiculous play call to unfold where Nembhard inbounds to Siakam who is cutting over by the right side of the Boston Basket (how ridiculously insanely stupid is that?). Then you still have 5.5 seconds left tied WITH THE BALL , and you shoot the ball completely covered up beyond the 3. TAKE A HIGHER % shot for God's sake. Getting to someone who can hit a 15 foot jump shot,,,,,WHAT DID WE WITNESS??? I need to be in the Witness Protection Program because someone needs to protect me from witnessing this garbage of a gift to the Celtics.

[@waldobutters9645]

I stopped reading at the “series is over”. ESPN is bad for your health.

[@harpoon_bakery162]

@@waldobutters9645 Can't blame you.

[@waldobutters9645]

@@harpoon_bakery162 I was kidding of course. But they were blown out in the first game of each last 2 rounds. They were highly competitive this entire game against Boston except literally the last few minutes. The disparity in free throw attempts is the real story. I’m not blaming the refs for this loss, the pacers earned this loss. BUT the refs are making g it an uphill climb. Without those Boston free throws, the pacers would have blown Boston out of the team harbor.

[@harpoon_bakery162]

@@waldobutters9645 certainly looked like Siakam got pushed in the back on the out-of-bounds, but can't get calls at TD Ameritrade. There are so many reasons why the Pacers have no shot at Game 2, but you have hit on one of them.

[@waldobutters9645]

@@harpoon_bakery162 fair

[@kylerog]

💔

[@user-fc2ry1ee2y]

Carlisle repeating the same mistakes over and over and over again.

[@hoosierdaddy5846]

Which is what? Rick did a great job tonight. N has all year

[@nikkijohnson983]

And w/o him…we wouldn’t even be here…

[@PREDICTIONSCLUB2024]

pacers 1-1 today

[@jerrybooker-gn5xu]

😈😈😈

[@dreadedking24]

We chocked the game away at the end almost won and we still had 20 less free throw attempts take away 5 of those attempts pacers win

[@latrellsprewellistheameric6297]

PACERS CHOKED!

[@nikkijohnson983]

They did. They owned it. It happens.

[@saintanubis6177]

Knicks arent here, kick rocks

[@waldobutters9645]

They’ve lost game one of the previous two series. So yes they choked in the last 5 min. of this particular game. But certainly not like the Bucks and Knicks choked their seasons into the garbage. (Where they belong)

[@latrellsprewellistheameric6297]

@@saintanubis6177 pacers only there cause of injuries. They are getting swept

[@latrellsprewellistheameric6297]

@@waldobutters9645 knicks didnt chokem half of team was missing. Thats why pacers still around