This would have been a "bad loss" the Pacers could hardly afford at this point in the season — a loss to a team looming ever-larger in their rear-view mirror, and a tired and depleted team at that.
Fortunately for them, Paul George was looking out for their best interests. Literally, looking out. Or, in this particular case, looking in.
The biggest basket of Sunday's 102-98 victory over the Heat came on Myles Turner's rebound basket, which was all well and good, but that basket came only because George drove the baseline, drew a defender, and passed off to Turner in the foul lane.