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In overtime, the grown-ups sent the kids downstairs to play on the X-Box. With their Indiana Pacers team in a cusp of a Grizzlies-esque collapse, and their second gag job of this first-round series, Indiana's two oldest souls and playoff-tested veterans, David West and George Hill, restored order to a game that had lost all semblance of it.
West scored the first four points and grabbed a huge rebound to begin an overtime period that shouldn't have happened in the first place.
And Hill, who said he was on "suicide watch" after an unproductive first three quarters, took over by scoring the last six points of overtime, with two rebounds and an assist.
Pacers 101, Magic 99.
Pacers 3, Magic 1.
This series is, for all intents and purposes, over.
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