Pacers final score: Timberwolves clamp down on Pacers 115-101

Very little clicked tonight for the Indiana Pacers, struggling to combat Rudy Gobert and Karl-Anthony Towns as the Minnesota Timberwolves snapped Indiana’s five game winning streak. The Pacers got nights from Myles Turner and Bennedict Mathurin, but struggled in the “total team effort” portion of the game.

That was a bit of an issue with Minnesota’s starting five coming up with such a complete performance, all five reaching double figures, four shooting 70% or better. The Pacers, continuing to flirt with slow starts quickly found themselves down 8-0, a deficit they would end up chasing the rest of the night.

The first quarter deficit would swell to as high as 17, but even as the starting unit…