Game 6: Cleveland Cavaliers 87-121 Indiana Pacers - 5 Talking Points

#3 No slow starts for Indiana in this game

Darren Collison had a much-needed good game as the starting point guard.

Apart from Game 1, for a majority of the series, the Pacers have been battling from behind and have been forced to make huge comebacks to make these game relevant late. To their credit, they have won one of the past four games with a comeback but that isn't enough to win a series.

Ideally, you don't want to play from behind at all. Each of the past four games, they had one quarter that they started off very bad. None of that happened in this critical elimination game.

Instead, they showed shades of the Pacers team that exploded in Game 1 and in the second half in Game 3 by going off in the third quarter of this game, where they outscored the Cavaliers 35-20, this after already leading by 10 at the halftime break.