Once again, an Indiana Pacers team short Paul George didn’t play to their margin of error, allowing the Phoenix Suns to run all over them. The Suns closed the first quarter on a 7-0 run that they used to lead through the second quarter. The Pacers finally took the lead in the third, but due to an inability to get stops, they could never push the lead beyond a single point.
Indiana struggled with rebounding in the second half as the Suns followed up seemingly every miss with a second chance bucket. To end the game, Phoenix had 30 second chance points on 18 offensive rebounds.