Game 5: Indiana Pacers 95-98 Cleveland Cavaliers - 5 Talking Points

#2 The Pacers' fight

Indiana Pacers v Cleveland Cavaliers - Game Five

Yes, they lost but it's difficult not to admire the fight in these Pacers.

This young Indiana squad has little or close to no appreciable Playoff experience. The players on the roster that have played Playoff games before have done so as role players or as end-of-the-rotation guys.

The only players to have prominent roles on past Playoff teams are Lance Stephenson and Cory Joseph, both are aged 27 and 26 respectively. Other than leading by big in Game 1, the Pacers have trailed by double digits in every game and in each one of them they have fought back, even winning one of them - Game 3.

In Game 5 as well, they went down by as many as 12 but still fought back before the final buzzer rang. And they're opponents are no pushovers. They are facing arguably the best player in the world right now in LeBron James.