The Indiana Pacers managed to weather the Timberwolves furious comeback and hung on behind a massive game from Paul George.
The Good: The “Big 3” of Teague, PG, and Turner carried the Pacers on offense. The Wolves just couldn’t figure out how to contain all 3 of them at the same time, and the Pacers took turns attacking naturally.
All three took over 10 shots and made over 50% of them.
The Bad: 16 bench points and 8 of those were from Al Jefferson. Aaron Brooks and Monta Ellis couldn’t do anything, and GRob’s only real contributions came on jumpers off broken plays/loose balls.
MVP: Paul George. Tortured Andrew Wiggins the same way he toyed with DeMar DeRozan in last year’s playoffs. His step back jumper was undefendable.
LVP: I swear I’m not intentionally picking on Monta, but it’s got to be Monta Ellis. No points or assists on 6 shots.
X-Factor: Jeff Teague. Seems lately to take over at least once a game and will the team to 8-10 points when they’re struggling, and definitely did that tonight.