This was a game without a blaring storyline. Paul George didn't score 43 points, as he did on Sunday, or even 35, as he did on Tuesday. Lance Stephenson didn't make his second Pacers' debut, as he did on Sunday, or even his homecourt debut, as he did on Tuesday. Nobody was individually sensational, and there were no obvious turning points or key plays in the game.
So, that's the storyline. The Pacers' 104-89 win over Milwaukee at Bankers Life Fieldhouse on Thursday was the kind on which a team can subsist for stretches of the schedule.