'I felt like tonight was one of my better, ‘Let the game come to me’ games,' said McConnell after the Pacers dispatched the Bucks.
As a few players filed into Fiserv Forum a few hours before Game 1, was already on the floor, having worked up a pregame sweat with an assistant coach. At this point, McConnell had lost count of the number of shots he had taken. But he wasn’t worried about the frequency. He was studying the methodology, the sequencing of his jumper. Advertisement Over a nine-year career with the Pacers and , McConnell has never been considered a shooter.
Overall, Indiana held Milwaukee to 24 points or fewer in three out of the four quarters. McConnell’s energy impacted Toppin, creating a formidable reserve pairing on a night where the starters didn’t exactly blow the Bucks away. Indiana found advantages by using their defensive pressure to generate stops and run, where they scored 21 fastbreak points.
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