The Good: The Indiana Pacers didn’t lose. They struggled to put away an up and coming Los Angles Lakers team that shouldn’t cause Indiana so much trouble. The Pacers aren’t working like a team at the moment and it shows in games like this. Against a more talent squad, this ends in a loss. It took Paul George stepping up and closing the door on the Lakers.
The Bad: The defense, once again, was ugly. The Lakers shot 44.9% on the night but it helped the Pacers out that Los Angeles was only 21.