Tyrese Haliburton and the Pacers won the season series against the Celtics on Sunday, bouncing back from a blowout to deliver a 123-114 loss to a scuffling Celtics team.
Here are the takeaways.
1. The Celtics couldn’t get stops.
The Celtics spent much of Sunday’s game trying to rally back from a deficit, which is very difficult to do when you have to score seemingly every possession to make up for what happened on the other end.
Over the last two weeks, the Celtics have the seventh-best defensive rating in the NBA according to Cleaning the Glass, which feels high given some of their struggles.