The most frustrating thing about the way in which the Pacers collapsed during the fourth-quarter of Game 2 wasn’t the 7:56 seconds that they went without a basket, nor was it the final 12 seconds that they peppered with inexcusable miscues; it was the intermediary of those two intervals, when they found what worked and went away from it.
Down two with 3:12 to play, Bojan Bogdanovic buried a three out of this faux flex action flowing into a down screen to take a one-point lead.
Poached from the Mavericks after signing Doug McDermott, the set played to the strengths of Bogdanovic by incorporating movement with a dash of misdirection rather than expecting him to play to the strengths of Victor Oladipo.