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It's Gut-Check Time in Cleveland

The Pacers have proven they have the substance to beat Cleveland. Now it's a matter of whether they can take care of the details.

Defending screens and pick and rolls.

Defending the 3-point line.

Committing fewer needless fouls.

And, ultimately, getting and hitting game-winning shots.

"Just little things we didn't do," Paul George said.

The Pacers' 109-108 loss to Cleveland in Game 1 of their playoffs series on Saturday was equal parts uplifting and discouraging, a glass-half-full kind of game much like their double-overtime loss to the Cavs two Sundays ago.