Game 3: Cleveland Cavaliers 90-92 Indiana Pacers - 5 Talking Points

#4 Victor Oladipo struggles

Victor Oladipo

While the box score might show that he had a good game, Victor Oladipo struggled in this one. The Cavs kept hounding him with double teams and negated his impact to a great extent. Oladipo shot just 5/15 and had 5 turnovers and missed some late 3s which might have cost Indiana this game.

He did a good job elsewhere by hauling in 6 Rebounds, along with dishing out 7 assists though. What would worry the Pacers is that if Cleveland keeps up this strategy to shut him down, they'll need the rest to step up big time and I'm not sure if Bogdanovic can keep this up in the coming games.

Still, winning a game with your best player only scoring 18 is a plus and Nate McMillan will probably draw up something to counter Cleveland's double teams. Jeff Van Gundy and Mark Jackson mentioned on commentary that Oladipo probably needs to cut to the basket after passing off like Grant Hill used to, instead of just standing around, so expect changes in Game 4.