The Indiana Pacers won both ends of their series this week with the Detroit Pistons. No need to count away goals, aggregate scoring, or anything like that. They simply took care of business and kept themselves in the running for the fourth seed in the Eastern Conference — and home-court advantage.
The win on Wednesday started off ugly with an 18-15 first quarter no team could be proud of, but after that, both teams returned to playing normal basketball but the Pistons weren’t keeping pace with Indiana.
While Indiana got some offense going and led by at least three and as much as 21 points the rest of the way, the Pistons only real offense came from Drummond scoring in the paint and Wayne Ellington catching fire with 5 3-pointers.