A team knows it has something special going when a former Rookie of the Year who had started 78 percent of his games before this season is actually pleased to go back to playing off the bench. Just as it knows it has something special going when a new player trying to ease his way into the starting lineup is told he needs to shoot more.
Tyreke Evans stepped aside for Wesley Matthews Jr. to join the Pacers' starting lineup Monday, returning to the reserve unit he had enlisted to join last summer so that Matthews could begin the acclimation process that will be crucial to the outcome of the Pacers' season.