In a contest that was back and forth through most the the game (starters in: Pacers lead, starters out: Pacers fall behind), the blue and gold fell short at home. The Blazers were in foul trouble very early on, and given the Pacers woes from the line, that might as well have been a tactical advantage.
Oladipo put up a good 4th quarter and the starters made a valiant effort of it, but in the end, it wasn’t enough. In a game where every Pacers starter finished at least +2 (and was higher before a few late buckets in garbage-ish time) and every bench player was -7 or worse, the scales tipped just a bit too far for a team built on comebacks to come back.