Solomon Hill to Pacers with Pick No. 23 in 2013 NBA Draft

Solomon Hill #34 sprints during 1 day of 2013 NBA draft combine on May 16, 2013 in multiplex quest in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Randy Belize/NBAE via Getty Images)

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - the Indiana Pacers may not have gotten the new guard's shot that everyone expected in the draft, the NBA on Thursday night.

Instead, they found someone who fits your system and may cause more headaches for offenses top of the League.

The Pacers pulled one of the biggest first-round upsets Thursday by selecting 6-foot-7, 220 pound forward Solomon Hill of Arizona with the selection of 23 in general - a guy few analysts project aims to go that high.

"We have qualified out of their defensive possessions and thought it was excellent defensively," said the general manager Kevin Pritchard. "As Frank (coach) (Vogel) is more involved, liked, too. "We think it will be a good defensive player and that is our culture".

If Hill as they anticipate the Pacers, could make his already hard defense even better.

Indiana led the NBA last season in defensive field, defensive field goal percentage goal percentage 3 points and rebounds and finished second in points allowed per game. Hill gives Indiana another long defender with a mentality of Defense first and a shooter isn't bad, either.

In Arizona, last season the senior forward 45.8 percent from the shooting range and had averages of 13.4 points, 5.3 rebounds and 2.7 assists. The scan report calls it a "very good" 3 shooter points finishes strong at the edge and goes to the free-throw line frequently - all facets the Pacers can be used on a bench that struggled mightily against Miami at the end of this Conference.

Pritchard believes new player the Pacers can defend point guards, shooting guards and small forwards and teams interested in acquiring Hill started calling almost as soon as the Commissioner David Stern made the announcement, said.

"My job is to play defense and separated from the plant", Hill said in a conference call with journalists. "I have to practice early, I have to work hard and try to be the man who leaves the bench and plays well."

Hill was a selection of 12 Pac all each of his last two seasons in Arizona and finished second on the team in scoring and rebounding in 2012-13. Consider leaving school after his junior season but decided to return, in part, because he didn't finish his college career with the taste bitter a loss of NIT first round to Bucknell.

The Pacers began carefully Hill in November and said that when the Wildcats improved at the end of the season, Hill was playing a larger role and was becoming a more consistent shooter. They were so intrigued that they brought him to Indianapolis twice for workouts, and Hill said he could tell that there was a different environment the second time, with a view to Vogel.

Indiana used its second-round selection in the center of 7 feet, 255 pounds Iverson Colton of the State of Colorado, and then negotiated the delivery to Boston for cash. The Celtics confirmed the movement early on Friday.

But in Indy, the selection of Hill, the Iverson trade or the fact that four players with ties ' Hoosiers - Indiana Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller coworkers were second and fourth general and Ray McCallum from Detroit and Deshaun Thomas of Ohio State, who played ball in the State preparation, could not overshadow the more important news of the State.

Larry Bird was returning to the Pacers.

Only 9½ hours before the bird project entered the same room he stood in exactly a year ago to announce that he was leaving due to health problems. This time, it should be presented as the new President of basketball operations. Donnie Walsh, who preceded and succeeded bird as every day to make decisions in Indiana, now on one side and serve as a consultant to the team.

The only man to win coach of the year, MVP of the League and the Executive of the year award takes control of a team that won the Central Division and came within a game of reaching the NBA Finals for the second time in the history of the franchise. Not officially claim his title until Monday and said that it would leave the selections at night project Walsh and Pritchard.

"I've seen a lot of basketball games, I don't know the kids at school," bird said during a morning press conference. "We have a lot of guys that these guys have been playing".

It turned out, it not could completely excused himself from the discussion of the draft room.

"Larry did not know the project from the point of studying for a year, but wanted to be part of it and certainly have something to say, and why not listen to Larry"? Pritchard said.

Priority of the beginning of the pre-season of the Pacers is new signature of agent free power forward David West. But in contrast to Walsh, who said in mid-June that the Pacers bench played well in the playoffs as the Office could have waited, bird expects more than backups and pledged to make improvements.

The Pacers are hoping that the selection of Hill helps to fill one of the holes on a team that would have its top six players back if West returns to sign former all-star Danny Granger is healthy after missing nearly five games last season with an injured left knee.

"Our job is to put so much talent out there and let the coaches make the decisions that", said Pritchard. "We think that he (Hill) can compete for minutes."

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