The Eastern Conference has completed its first-ever play-in tournament, and sadly, it turned out to be anticlimactic. The home teams didn't just win all three games, they utterly dominated them. After Tuesday's two games had a combined 45-point margin of victory, the Washington Wizards continued that home team dominance with an incredible 142-115 victory over the Indiana Pacers to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2018.
Russell Westbrook and Bradley Beal led the way with 43 combined points and 19 combined assists, but the story of this game was their performance on the NBA's most valuable shots. Washington scored an incredible 72 points in the paint, and after shooting only 3 of 21 from behind the arc against Boston, they made 50 percent of their 3-pointers on Thursday in shooting 14 of 28 from long range. Had they not let up in garbage time, they likely would have broken the record Indiana set on Tuesday for most points in a play-in game with 144.
Those same Pacers will now have to look at what went wrong both in this game and in this season as they attempt to pick up the pieces of a disappointing season. The Pacers had not missed the playoffs since 2015, but now, they'll return to the lottery and attempt to recapture the magic that had them in the postseason over each of the previous five seasons. If tonight's loss proved anything, though, it's that the Pacers have a long way to go.
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