The Indiana Pacers came into Madison Square Garden with the 2nd ranked offense in the month of November per Cleaning the Glass. They scored a paltry 84 points Monday night against the New York Knicks, a season low.
Indiana went deep early, running a 10 man rotation in the first quarter, but couldn’t keep pace with the Knicks’ bench units. New York’s bench outscored Indy’s 44-13 and Immanuel Quickley, Taj Gibson, and Alec Burks all contributed heavily to their closing stretch to oust the Pacers.
The two buoys of Pacer bench units in the past two weeks struggled mightily from the field, with TJ McConnell really struggling to find his footing in the halfcourt.