MVP: Chris Paul continues his recent streak of excellent performances with a night where he notched 26 points on 11-21 shooting along with 7 assists and 6 rebounds. He continually made big shots in the fourth quarter to keep the Pacers at bay, racking up 11 of his points in the quarter alone.
That was … a reversal from Sunday: The bench couldn’t do right on Sunday against the Raptors, but today, they got the team rolling amidst a first-quarter cold streak that allowed an early Pacers lead to balloon to nine. Wes Johnson would make back-to-back threes to cut the lead down, Austin Rivers was able to find open paths to the rim as the game remained close in the second quarter, and Pablo Prigioni continued his pick-pocketing savvy to give the Clippers the largest lead of the game.