The Indiana Pacers failed this season. The team’s stated goal was to make the playoffs, and that did not happen.
Given all the injuries and the relative circus around Paul George’s return, however, the team played quite well. Things were ugly and hard to watch before the calendar flipped to 2015, as so many sidelined players forced coach Frank Vogel to rely on guys like Donald Sloan, Lavoy Allen, Chris Copeland, and A.J. Price for way more too many minutes.
Despite all this, the team fought all year.
And a late surge once George Hill got healthy almost turned this into a wildly positive year.