How will Evan Turner fit in with Pacers? NBA numbers

• Pacers get some depth on the bench with the deal
• Turner was ha overall No. 2 pick in the draft

The Indiana Pacers made the biggest move at Thursday's trade deadline, acquiring Evan Turner from the Philadelphia 76ers for Danny Granger's expiring contract and a future second-round pick.

The deal gives them a healthy upgrade in bench scoring and a good backup option in case Lance Stephenson is too expensive to re-sign this summer, but talk of Indiana locking up the Eastern Conference with this move is greatly exaggerated.

Turner, the No. 2 overall pick in his fourth year in the NBA, is having the best season of his career, putting up big numbers on a terrible Sixers team. But he's never been an efficient scorer, and that hasn't changed this season.

Turner's True Shooting Percentage (a metric that factors free throws into a shooter's efficiency) is a career-high 50.5%, But thanks to awful three-point shooting (his clip from beyond the arc has dropped from a passable 36.5% last season to a terrible 28.8% this year), his Effective Field-Goal Percentage (which weights threes higher than twos) is right in line with his career mark, at 45.1%.

Turner's offensive efficiency this season isn't great, either. He's scoring 98 points per 100 possessions, an improvement over last season, but not close to elite. But Turner has never played for a team as good as this year's Pacers, or even close.

He was playing 34.9 minutes a game for the Sixers and acting as one of their only reliable scorers, taking a career-high 6.6 shots a game. He won't have that kind of responsibility in Indiana or even close to it.

Turner's ability to stay on the floor also makes him a more reliable bench scoring option than Granger, who has struggled with knee problems all season. Granger has appeared in just 29 games for the Pacers this year, looking like a shell of his former All-Star self and shooting just 35.9% from the field. Turner's youth and health give the Pacers an edge.

Still, it's premature to say that this move greatly increases the Pacers' title chances. They're the best team in the Eastern Conference, and that's unlikely to change, but Turner doesn't move the needle enough to make them a clear favorite in a seven-game series vs. the Miami Heat.

What it does give them is another solid scoring option who could be re-signed for cheaper than Stephenson, although Stephenson is a far better player. Given that the Pacers were likely not going to re-sign Granger anyway, it was a good short-term move that didn't cost much and has the potential to make them better.