If your memory’s not shot by operating in the mangled zone of NBA Standard Time, then cast it back to last March. Here, we had no notion of an LED basketball court, Damian Lillard’s Dame Time was still technically PST, and the Indiana Pacers were hanging in. After a tough losing stretch leading up to 2023’s All-Star, the Pacers returned post-break on fresh legs to macerate a couple low-hanging matchups and nab close wins against the Mavericks and Bucks. Mid-March, things started to slide.