The biggest problem during that Second Half and especially during that disastrous Third Quarter (which saw the Pacers go on a 17-2 run in the first 4:36 seconds!) was the lack of ball movement.  In the first half, the Kings had 13 assists to only 4 turnovers, and Tyreke himself had 8 assists by the half.  Things were looking a lot smoother on offense.  But for some reason it all just stopped after halftime, with a lot more isolation and dribbling happening, as well as clearly not running the called plays (a player would have the ball, obviously waiting for others to perform their part of the play, which they didn't, and then be forced to either shoot or force a pass before time ran out).  The Kings only had 1 assist to 6 turnovers in the Third, and only 3 assists to 4 turnovers in the final period.

Defensively, the Kings had some problems defending without fouling, and preventing penetration.  Collison and Granger were able to get to the basket constantly, and we got lucky that quite a few of their kick out passes to wide open three point shooters like Dunleavy, Rush and Posey resulted in misses.  Nobody on the team was able to guard Granger, and I think the guy that actually did the best job on him was Tyreke, but he didn't see minutes on him until all other options had been exhausted and the game was already out of reach.  The Kings just weren't able to come back from that huge collapse and the Pacers won by 9.

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