Christmas came and went, I was teaching my daughter to get buckets, so I’ll admit these are very much belated grades on the Indiana Pacers loss to the Detroit Pistons. However, the game showed us a few things that are worth noting for posterity’s sake.
Other than the losses to the Houston Rockets, no team had truly handed the Pacers’ own ass to them in a game. There were games that got away, but none where the other team was clearly the better team by at least a mile, even if only for one night.
This game was the type we feared more of coming into the season.