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They are lucky if they can even go to playoffs.

They understand the situation they are in, so they also don't expect to make the playoffs because they can justify it. It was a gamble to still play Haliburton in the finals even though he was already injured, and now they will be paying for a whole season without him. That will have a big impact because ticket sales will likely drop if they can't be as competitive as before.

With such details at hand, Indiana is nearly out of the contest, so to speak.

Even though their regular finish was solid (50-32, as far as I remember), they are not the contenders they were with him at his best.

Yeah, I think this is the reason or ultimatum why Haliburton decided to risk it all since he and the management knew that it will be difficult to repeat again their solid run on this year season because their normal play is not the same to the performance they show in playoffs to beat strong teams and timing their injured star player.

They are super lucky this year to be on Finals which they blowup their chance to win it.

I guess that is the price they have to pay, I mean nobody really thought that they will go to the finals but they did. And it's thru their resiliency. But now Haliburton is going to be injured again or at least trying to recover but the time table is going to be longer than expected and he won't be available next season. And with the departure of Myles Turner, it's going to be very hard for them to duplicate that finals appearance and it's very unfortunate that Haliburton has sacrifice himself for that. So it's going to be a crazy Eastern conference, Jayson Tatum is also down with the same injuries. And I don't know why we have a lot of players in the last decade or so having this kind of injuries. There are some old school of thoughts that it's due to players using just mid cut to low cut shoes as opposed in the 90's to early 2000's that players are using high cut shoes. Not sure though if that is one factors that could we attributed achilles injuries.