With this group, Carlisle reaches out in different ways. “I can only go off of what I heard, the rumors and whatnot,” said Turner, who predates Carlisle II here, having spent a decade with the Pacers since going 11th in the 2015 draft. “He’s still the same coach. But he’s taken a more Zen approach. … he’s kind of a little bit of a cooler head. He’s not as quick to react to things. And I think he’s taken on the personal journey of it. We’re hoopin’ and whatnot, but he’s also trying to build men. I think it’s something he takes pride in.”
Source: New York Times
Source: New York Times
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David Aldridge @davidaldridgedc
PMers: Rick Carlisle, at 65, continues to be great at making in-game adjustments, while continuing to adapt off the floor as well, in leading the Pacers to a second straight Eastern Conference final. In @TheAthletic:
nytimes.com/athletic/63477… – 5:30 PM
PMers: Rick Carlisle, at 65, continues to be great at making in-game adjustments, while continuing to adapt off the floor as well, in leading the Pacers to a second straight Eastern Conference final. In @TheAthletic:
nytimes.com/athletic/63477… – 5:30 PM
David Aldridge @davidaldridgedc
Rick Carlisle still seeks to challenge himself, and his Pacers. He had to adjust on the fly to steer Indiana to victory over the 64-win Cavs and a second straight east final-a familiar feeling for a man who became a pilot in his 50s. In @TheAthletic:
nytimes.com/athletic/63477… – 7:00 AM
Rick Carlisle still seeks to challenge himself, and his Pacers. He had to adjust on the fly to steer Indiana to victory over the 64-win Cavs and a second straight east final-a familiar feeling for a man who became a pilot in his 50s. In @TheAthletic:
nytimes.com/athletic/63477… – 7:00 AM
Sirius XM NBA @SiriusXMNBA
“His ability to adapt and adjust is one of the main reasons why we won a championship in Dallas”
@JasonTerry joins @TermineRadio & @JumpShot8 to explain why Rick Carlisle, his former coach, is thriving now with the Indiana Pacers
Listen to the guys weekdays from 4-7p ET on pic.x.com/LiTHybaK0V – 5:48 PM
“His ability to adapt and adjust is one of the main reasons why we won a championship in Dallas”
@JasonTerry joins @TermineRadio & @JumpShot8 to explain why Rick Carlisle, his former coach, is thriving now with the Indiana Pacers
Listen to the guys weekdays from 4-7p ET on pic.x.com/LiTHybaK0V – 5:48 PM
Emiliano Carchia @Sportando
Rick Carlisle: The winning team writes the script sportando.basketball/en/rick-carlis… – 2:43 AM
Rick Carlisle: The winning team writes the script sportando.basketball/en/rick-carlis… – 2:43 AM
Kendrick Perkins @KendrickPerkins
Rick Carlisle has been coaching his ass off this postseason – 12:39 AM
Rick Carlisle has been coaching his ass off this postseason – 12:39 AM
Eddie Sefko @ESefko
Big congratulations to Rick Carlisle, Mike Weiner, Jenny Boucek and the rest of the Indiana Pacers for being in the east finals two years in a row now. And also Nikola Jokić continues to be a bad man. – 12:02 AM
Big congratulations to Rick Carlisle, Mike Weiner, Jenny Boucek and the rest of the Indiana Pacers for being in the east finals two years in a row now. And also Nikola Jokić continues to be a bad man. – 12:02 AM
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It left Haliburton to call his coach “kind of a savant when it comes to adjustments” after the breakthrough Game 4 win. “I think he has this, like, kind of hoop ADHD,” Turner said. “He just has a bunch of ideas and stuff that runs through his mind that he tries to deliver all at once. I’m kind of the same way. And I think I just understand him as a person. “He has a lot more experience in this world than I do, but just the things he’s into off the floor, that Renaissance man type of approach, I appreciate that type of thing. He’s done a lot for my career. Just allowing me to go out on the court and have a kind of free will that I haven’t had in the past.” -via New York Times / May 16, 2025
When he first got in the big chair, in Detroit, Carlisle was often abrupt with his players, team management and the media. With the Detroit Pistons and Pacers teams more suited to walk it up and play deliberately, he called almost every play from the sideline. He was a control freak. Now, while he’s still tough, still demanding — “Oh, he’s gonna bark a little bit,” center Myles Turner said — Carlisle’s learned that collaboration is a lot easier to navigate than confrontation. Now, he reaches out. He’s empowered his coaching staff just as Larry Bird empowered him to run the Pacers’ offense in the late 1990s as one of Bird’s two assistant coaches, while the late Dick Harter ran Indiana’s defense. Like Bird, Carlisle makes CEO decisions. -via New York Times / May 16, 2025
It’s a momentous run that has been led by a not-so-overrated Tyrese Haliburton … and which has left numerous rival teams with the strong impression that free agent-to-be Myles Turner is not going to be gettable this summer. The rising expectation, league sources say, is that Turner will be extending his stay in the Hoosier State. -via marcstein.substack.com / May 16, 2025
In his second head coaching stint here with the Pacers, with All-Star and Olympian Tyrese Haliburton the focal point, Carlisle is seeking a second NBA title to go with the one he got in Dallas in 2011. He’s now eight wins away, after his team dispatched the 64-win Cavaliers in five games Tuesday, sending Indiana to its second straight Eastern Conference finals appearance. “If your desire in life is to lead and to teach, NBA head coaching is the ultimate crucible,” Carlisle said to The Athletic Sunday night in his office ab0ut 25 minutes after his Pacers had dropped 80 points on Cleveland in an exquisite first half and won Game 4 of the series, shredding the Cavs’ 3-2 zone that had flummoxed the Pacers just 48 hours earlier. -via New York Times / May 16, 2025