Logically, a team that wins consecutive road games with quantity ball movement that leads to quality shooting would continue its approach when it returns home for its next game.
Not much about the NBA is logical, though, not in an era when players can go off for more than 50 points in three quarters and 7-footers shoot better from 3-point range better than guards once did. So, the Pacers' 103-93 loss to Portland on Monday will have to go down as another one of those reminders teams send to themselves throughout each season. Straying from what had worked so well in San Antonio and Cleveland, they lost to the Blazers for the fourth time in the last five meetings at Bankers Life Fieldhouse.