One thing that Dwane Casey really hasn’t liked in his team’s losses in this series is its hunger level. In the Game 1 and 4 losses, the coach said he saw his team get beat to the punch by an Indiana team that wanted the game more.
“We’ve got to be the hungry team. If we’re not the hungry team, if our backs are not against the wall, we don’t feel like were being attacked, we lose that edge a little bit,” Casey said. “We’ve been preaching it, I don’t know if it’s human nature, but we didn’t come out with that same edge.