NEW YORK — In one sense, as Rick Carlisle sees it, basketball can be extremely complicated.
“NBA games are games with five or six thousand events that happen throughout the game,” the Indiana Pacers head coach told reporters before Tuesday’s Game 5 at Madison Square Garden. “You know, any notion that a game is going to be — at this time of year, with the stakes as high as they are — is going to be the same from one to the next, it’s just probably not going to happen.”
Except, of course, when it’s anything but complicated.