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Tony East: Rick Carlisle said pregame in San Antonio that Andrew Nembhard and Pascal Siakam are going to play tonight.

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Myles Turner: I rock with Rick (Carlisle) too. He’s one of my favorite coaches. But I think he was salty too. You know what I’m saying? With how everything shook out.

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"The game has changed. One of the compelling aspects of it to me is that when the effort was made to eliminate back-to-backs, in order to have the space to do that, you needed to shorten training camp. So training camp essentially became three weeks instead of four. That extra week to build a base in terms of strength, many layers of protection that you can get for the body, I’ve always wondered if the effort to have less back-to-backs was really worth it. Essentially, you’re playing every other day. But these are all questions. "There are a lot of great things about today’s game (and) schedule. The longer All-Star break has been a real positive…. To get to the heart of the matter, you’re going to have to talk about the finances of it. I certainly am in agreement that it’s conversation worth having…. (The exact solution) is hard to say… but the nature of the game has changed significantly. Steve is right on point with that. The speed and everything is quite different than it was five-six years ago, three-four years ago.”

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Steve Kerr has said several times this season that he thinks the NBA should shorten its schedule. Rick Carlisle was asked about it on Tuesday. "It’d be great if it was possible to do that. There would be a lot involved with it. An obvious big revenue shift," Carlisle said. "You’re talking about 10-12 percent of the games being eliminated... the question is, would everyone be willing to do that if it was deemed that it would really help the game. It's a lively conversation. I’ve heard Adam talk about the possibility of shortening the season slightly, going back a few years.

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Each team gets seven timeouts to use over the course of a 48-minute regulation NBA game. The only restrictions on when they can use them come at the end of the game: you can’t call more than four in the fourth quarter or more than two in the final two minutes. In practice, most teams end up using between 5-6 of their timeouts on average. Then there are the Indiana Pacers, who use nearly every possible timeout nearly every game. Rick Carlisle has always been in the “you can’t take them with you” camp, averaging 5.8 and 5.9 timeouts per game the last two seasons, but this year he and his squad are calling for stoppage 6.4 times per game on average, nearly a half a timeout more than any other team in the league.

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Tony East: I asked Rick Carlisle about Andrew Nembhard only playing the first half tonight. He noted “They were just going to play one half” re: him and Zubac. Obviously prudent to have that be the same half.

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Duane Rankin: "Go hard and do what you do." Rick Carlisle on Ivica Zubac (left ankle sprain) set to make his Pacers debut. #Suns #Pacers

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Nearly a month after the NBA issued an $100,000 fine to the Indiana Pacers for resting key players in a regular-season game, Pacers coach Rick Carlisle offered a vote of confidence on how the NBA will address tanking. “I place every bit of trust I have in Adam Silver,” Carlisle said of the NBA Commissioner ahead of Friday’s game against the Los Angeles Lakers. “This man is privy to be the ultimate leader. He really has. He really has smart people around him. They very carefully consider everything. They never react. They always think through things.”

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Tony East: “He’s the greatest player I’ve ever coached,” Rick Carlisle says of Luka Doncic. “You show me a great player that isn’t stubborn and doesn’t get pissed off at things, and I’ll show you a guy that’s not a great player.”

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Khobi Price: Rick Carlisle on Luka Doncic: "I don't know if I've seen a player control an NBA game the way he does." Added that Luka's as difficult of player to game plan for as he's seen.

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Dustin Dopirak: Rick Carlisle asked, at length, about, let's say, playing for the lottery and whether that ultimately hurts coaches. "It didn't hurt Mark Daigneault." Also points out that the Pistons built their team on the draft.

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Law Murray: Rick Carlisle says that Ivica Zubac (ankle) will play before end of season

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Angela Moryan: Rick Carlisle says Tyrese Haliburton is “doing a lot better” as he recovers from shingles. Adds there’s still no firm timeline on his return, but the initial thought was he would be back after this upcoming west coast trip.

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Angela Moryan: "He's doing better, feeling better, & things are going in a good direction." I asked #Pacers HC Rick Carlisle for an update on Tyrese Haliburton - who's still recovering from shingles. Carlisle says Haliburton was progressing well from the Achilles tear before this happened.

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