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The Indiana Pacers will swap Holiday brothers in the starting lineup for Game 3 against the Miami Heat.
Justin Holiday will start instead of Aaron Holiday, per Scott Agness of Field House Files.
First change today for the Pacers: new starting lineup.
Justin Holiday instead of Aaron Holiday — along with Brogdon, Oladipo, Warren and Turner.
Same five for the Heat: Dragic, Robinson, Butler, Crowder, Adebayo.
— Scott Agness (@ScottAgness) August 22, 2020
The Pacers are down 2-0 in their series against the Heat. Justin Holiday is a better 3-point shooter than Aaron Holiday, so maybe Indiana head coach Nate McMillan is looking for more shooting threats moving forward.
However, for the Pacers to ultimately win this series, T.J. Warren and Victor Oladipo have to be better. Indiana's two best scorers are both averaging under 20.0 points per game through the first two contests of the series and Oladipo is shooting only 31.3 percent from the field.
That will have to change moving forward or else the Pacers could get swept by Miami and bounced in the first round for the second consecutive season.
To be fair to Oladipo, he's still making his way back from the knee injury he suffered in 2018-19, so Warren may have to be the No. 1 option moving forward since he's been in a groove ever since the bubble games started. The veteran scorer is averaging 18.0 points in the first two games against the Heat while shooting 48.5 percent from the floor.
The Pacers haven't quite been able to overcome the Heat in their first-round series while top option in first-time All-Star power forward Domantas Sabonis is sidelined with an injury. Between Miami All-Stars Jimmy Butler and Bam Adebayo plus their potent outside shooting, Indiana has a long way to go to even up the best-of-seven playoff series.
