Rayj Dennis
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Oct 11, 2026
Tony EastHOST
He, I believe, debuted for them in this one.
Tony EastHOST
Former Pacer Ray J. Dennis played.
Tony EastHOST
That is, of course, going to be a huge topic for Brad.
Tony EastHOST
I kid, but Brad was here.
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Tony EastHOST
He made a two in traffic.
Tony EastHOST
He was very patient with guys around him.
Tony EastHOST
Ray J. Dennis was ended up being the last guy to stay down next to him.
Tony EastHOST
And he's, you know, shorter than Ray J. Dennis, but not by much.
Tim OglesHOST
Yeah, Mikey, and you also, if you look at just the three-point shooting, if you go by maybe the first six or seven guys, they shot the three ball really well in this game as well.
Tim OglesHOST
But when you get down to guys like Ray J. Dennis, Asa, Zuby, Kobe Johnson, 0-2, 0-3, 0-2, 0-3, it kind of tanked their percentages in this game.
Tim OglesHOST
But I thought overall the starting unit and that second unit played you know, for the most part, shot the three ball really well.
Tim OglesHOST
You know, I thought defensively in this game, there were some moments where we will get into the foul calling in a moment, but there were some moments defensively.
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Mikey KobrinskyHOST
to close out for the Hawks.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
But offensively, this group definitely struggled to start the fourth quarter.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
Indiana 8-0 run to start the frame, and there were no points from the Hawks until the 8-37 mark when Ray J. Dennis ended up getting a layup at the rim.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
So they let Indiana back in the game with that slow offensive start here.
Brad KnightGUEST
But, you know, he held his own enough where I was like, it's probably better than, frankly, what we saw last year between Monte Morris and DeLon Wright and campaign and, you know, Mack McClung.
Brad KnightGUEST
And I won't even Ray J. Dennis.
Brad KnightGUEST
I mean, we had point guards for days.
Brad KnightGUEST
It was a turnstile.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
But the Hawks would put the finishing touches on this game with a 11-0 run to go up 119 to 109 with 2:40 left.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
And the closing unit the Hawks went with was Asa Newell, along with Ray J. Dennis, Kobe Johnson, Cameron Coran, and Jaylen Wilson.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
Um, so interestingly, you, you had Asa playing, playing with this group, um, a- and not Zubi Edjefor, where last game it was kind of a mixture of both.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
You saw some Zubi, you saw some Asa, but like it, it, it was really just a flip-flop of roles between Asa and Zubi in this game.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
I need to be a secondary ball handler, which he wasn't doing a lot of.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
during the finals run it was a lot more for him being a play finisher than a play initiator and then as the season went on like he went from that to like oh I need to be a starting center at times so like just his overall versatility and then when you start looking at the numbers and seeing like oh he's actually being doubled at like his second highest rate and he's having to bring the ball up a lot and oh his usage is the highest it's ever been and by game eight he's playing in a lineup with Jeremiah Robinson, Earl, Ray J. Dennis, Talon, Peter, and Tony Bradley, all of whom either came off the bench for Liberty or played minutes in the G League.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
And as you're saying, he's still putting up numbers similar to his prior All-Star season when he's playing in a lineup with an All-Star caliber point guard.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
So yeah, I mean, the utmost respect for Pascal Siakam.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
I mean, I'm coming from a standpoint of, like you said, by game eight of the season, well, really by the second half of game one, they didn't have a point guard.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
But by game eight, I was watching them play a lineup that included Pascal Siakam, Talon Peter, Ray J. Dennis, Tony Bradley, and Jeremiah Robinson Earl.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
Like one of those people came off the bench for Liberty a year prior to that, and the rest had all played some minutes in the G League.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
So that goes to speak like Pascal was a guy who at the beginning of the portion of the season was playing some secondary ball handler, which he's certainly done in the past with Toronto, but not much with the Pacers to the point where in this seven and seven stretch, he's literally starting for them at center while also still having to do all the Pascal Siakam things.
Tim OglesHOST
Like I like his ability to get to the basket.
Tim OglesHOST
Look, me and you talked about – and we have – You know, different opinions on the two guards on the two ways between, you know, Keyshawn Gilbert and Ray J. Dennis, like you like one, I like the other.
Tim OglesHOST
But, you know, I thought Keyshawn Gilbert in this moment was doing a good job of getting to the
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rim.
Tim OglesHOST
Unfortunately, it didn't really help a lot.
Tim OglesHOST
But, you know, I thought that, you know, he had some moments in this game that was pretty good.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
Yeah, there were two plays back-to-back, I think, here that I remember where Gilbert had some nice drives to the rim, and the Hawks made two swing passes on the perimeter, leading to wide-open threes for Ray J. Dennis, and then Doreen Finney-Smith had one as well.
Mikey KobrinskyHOST
So a lot of guys who did play in the second half, by the way, did not play in the first half.
Tyler JonesGUEST
But when Asa played...
Tyler JonesGUEST
So, like, the positive was, like, when Asa played alongside Coby White, uh, um, Ray J. Dennis, uh, Gilbert, and, you know-
Kevin ChouinardHOST
Jalen Wilson
Tyler JonesGUEST
...
Caitlin CooperGUEST
This team doesn't function quite the same when they don't have Obi Toppin to, you know, play some small ball five at times or, you know, just other people that were missing.
Caitlin CooperGUEST
By game eight of this season, I was watching a lineup with Pascal Siakam playing next to Talen Horton-Tucker, Ray J. Dennis, Tony Bradley-
Esfandiar BaraheniHOST
Tough
Caitlin CooperGUEST
... and Jeremiah Robinson-Earl.
Brad RowlandHOST
I think the current two-way guys being at death positions that he references here is not necessarily true.
Brad RowlandHOST
After they moved Ryan Nembhard and Devin Carter, who, by the way, have signed a two-way and Exhibit 10 contract, respectively, notable to some degree, I would say Ray J. Dennis and Keyshawn Gilbert are now closer to being needed for NBA minutes than they may have been a month ago.
Brad RowlandHOST
They won't be playing right now, but they're not necessarily huge depth spots for the Hawks.
Brad RowlandHOST
For example, they probably still go to Dyson and Nikhil and Jalen as their lead ball handlers before actually using Ray J. or Keyshawn.
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