Jay Huff ☆

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This season

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• Podcast Locked On Pacers host · Report · 41 h ago

  Jay Huff played ahead of Larry Nance in this game (the host puts "ahead" in air quotes), but neither was in the rotation. Obi Toppin was the primary backup five during the competitive portion.

• Podcast Rick Carlisle (reported), via Locked On Pacers · Relayed report · 41 h ago

  Per the host, Rick Carlisle has been suggesting that Larry Nance and Jay Huff could play together, with both able to play the four if needed.

• Podcast Locked On Pacers host · Report · 41 h ago

  Nance and Huff shared the frontcourt for five minutes. The Pacers were -7 in that span (8-15), and the host called those minutes a disaster.

• Podcast Tony East, Locked On Pacers · Report · Oct 16

  Jay Huff has mostly played with third units this preseason. He has been making shots, and unlike last year he understands the system.

• Podcast Larry Nance Jr. (reported), via Locked On Pacers · Relayed report · Oct 15

  Pat Boylan relays Larry Nance's point that the team's centers have very different skill sets. Pat names Zubac, Nance and Jay Huff, and adds Obi Toppin at small-ball five himself. He says the four have little overlap, which allows the team to play to the matchup.

• Podcast Locked On Pacers · Prediction · Oct 15

  Pat Boylan thinks it is clear Zubac (heard as "DeVito Zubats"; likely Ivica Zubac) is the No. 1 center this year. Behind him the rotation could change a lot from game to game: some nights 15 Jay Huff minutes, other nights no second center at all, with Obi Toppin staggered into that role.

• Podcast Locked On Pacers host · Analysis · Oct 14

  Host calls the backup center spot the biggest rotation storyline of camp. So far Jay Huff has not gotten the real backup minutes; the Pacers again went to Larry Nance as the second-unit center.

• Podcast Locked On Pacers host · Report · Oct 14

  Jay Huff scored 11 points (three threes) with 3 rebounds, a steal and an assist after first entering in the third quarter. The host thinks he is more decisive than last year and now understands the system.

• Podcast Locked On Pacers host · Report · Oct 14

  Through three games Huff has not had a single minute with the backups or the starters, though he was the second-unit center at Fan Jam. The host notes Nance (heard as 'Larry Dance') was hurt and did not play at Fan Jam.

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• Waiting Locked On Pacers (show): Jay Huff will have a decent rotation role this season.
  2026-10-16 · Podcast · by 2027-04-12
• Opinion Locked On Pacers (show): Backup center minutes between Huff and Nance will be fluid and may depend on matchup.
  2026-10-16 · Podcast · by 2027-04-12

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