The Indiana Pacers usually watch their opponents his about 8 3-pointers a game, but on Monday night, they saw 18 fall as the Detroit Pistons overwhelmed them with an offensive assault from deep.
Part of Indiana’s issue did spring from who they allowed to shoot those long-distance attempts, but when your opponent ends up making 43.9 percent of those shots, part of it can be chalked up to things just not going your way on a given night.
The game was a chippy one after the Pistons took an early 17-point lead, which isn’t too surprising for a Pacers-Pistons game, but with the teams slated to meet on back to back nights in April, you can almost bet on the fact that will carry over to those meetings.