If you shoot 52 percent from the field and 46 percent from 3-point range and commit just nine turnovers, you've done a fine job offensively and should win the game.
Unless, of course, you falter defensively in the closing moments and continue to get dominated on the glass, in which case you lose the way the Pacers did to Denver on Thursday, 124-116.
The Nuggets grabbed 15 offensive rebounds, converted them into 19 second-chance points, and scored 66 points in the paint to overcome what might have been the Pacers' best quarter of the season to start the game, one in which they led by as many as 14 points with nearly flawless play at both ends.