Love the refs allowing Nesmith to get mugged by two players as hard as possible with no call but Pacers just put in a bunny anyway to end the quarter tacking 2 points onto halftime lead.
Pacers need to be 20-30 points better and so far they are.
That completely breaks the game that Nesmith didn't go to the line at the end of the 3rd quarter. A little "ball don't lie" that it fell right to Pacers for an open layup.
Knicks win and they don't have brunson.
otherwise there path is the pacers which has made a living of beating short handed teams. But knowing the celtics i could see them taking the pacers lightly.
Carlisle could have kept running Tyrese when he was on fire in first but he kept his normal sub pattern. He finally seems healthy. Meanwhile you've got this guy who has been playing 48 every game...yeah a lot of ball dominant high volume shooters are going to get 40 points if they never come out of games. Tyrese's 30+ games would've been 40+ too if they never rested him.
I have a little PTSD from watching every game he coached Rose/Deng/Noah core.