Well, at least they gave it a shot.
The Indiana Pacers are a really good team this season, but the Golden State Warriors are just in a different stratosphere. I honestly thought the Pacers stood a chance at handing the Warriors their first L of the season, but instead it was a brutal reality check of just how much better the defending champs are than everyone else.
Final score: 131-123, but this game was effectively over by the end of the first quarter. The Pacers actually got out to an early lead, but then I blinked and they were down by 20. And then 30. Sure, the Pacers made a furious rally down the stretch to make you ask the question, but they were never going to come all the way back. Not against this team.
I said in my previous post that certain things had to go right for the Pacers for them to stand a chance against the 22-0 (now 23-0) Warriors, and sadly many of those things didn’t come true. Paul George got his 33, but Monta Ellis didn’t have the big game the Pacers needed from him as he was 4-11 for 9 points. Perhaps the shoulder contusion was bothering him.
Rodney Stuckey also struggled for the bench unit, going just 1-5, though Chase Budinger made a surprising impact with 12.
CJ Miles did well in scoring 24 on 8-15 shooting, but he sure could not match Klay Thompson, who went ballistic for 39 and made Curry’s 29 points an afterthought. The Pacers would have taken 29 from Curry, but when Klay goes off like that as well you might as well say goodnight.
And so it was a third consecutive loss for the 12-8 Pacers, who have three tough ones coming up against Miami, Detroit and Toronto, three games that could go either way. Let’s just hope they go the Pacers’ way.
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