Indiana Pacers: 3 takeaways from 2019 NBA offseason

1. Pacers will be equally unsurprising if they win 60 games or 30

The Indiana Pacers are a team full of a lot more questions than answers as they go into the 2019-20 season.

Will Victor Oladipo’s rehab continue to go well and if it does, will he be the same player after his injury as before? After all, a torn quadriceps tendon ended the careers of Charles Barkley and — considering he was washed after he came back — Tony Parker.

Even though Oladipo is a lot younger than those guys were, any injury that ruins athleticism and explosiveness isn’t good for a guy whose game relies heavily on those attributes.

Will Jeremy Lamb be a suitable replacement if that’s the way things go? Lamb is a career 0.64 VORP/82 guy and posted just 1.3 VORP last year.

He has averaged about 19 points per 36 minutes in each of the past three years; Oladipo averaged 24.5 per 36 in his healthy All-Star season in 2017-18.

And, oh by the way, Oladipo is a two-time All-Star and Lamb has never been seriously considered for an All-Star vote by anyone who wasn’t a blatant homer in Oklahoma City or Charlotte during his tenures with those two teams.

Can Malcolm Brogdon stay healthy? He’s great when he’s on the floor, but he’s only played a total of 187 out of the 246 regular-season games Milwaukee played in his first three years in the league.

Can T.J. Warren do anything other than shoot? He’s a career 34 percent 3-point shooter who shot 42.8 percent for the Suns last season, but he too is a massive injury risk, playing in just 43 games last year and never appearing in more than 66 in a season in his career so far.

Is Goga Bitadze the next great European talent or is he going to be drawing comparisons to Darko Milicic?

And what about Aaron Holiday, Alize Johnson, Edmond Sumner and whoever the Pacers can fish out of the G-League?

Johnson and Sumner have been cup-of-coffee guys at the NBA level, playing a bit of garbage time, and you get the feeling Holiday’s development isn’t having any favors done for it by coach Nate McMillan’s distaste for pulling his rotation guys in all but the most runaway blowouts.

Healthy, this team could win 60 games. Injured and bickering over minutes and roles, this team could end up in the lottery.

And as to which we’re getting? Your guess is as good as mine.