Again??

 (In which your Indiana Pacers continue their Oh, Come ON! tour through the NBA playoffs, beating the New York Knicks 114-109 in Game 2 of the Eastern Conference finals.)

(This sends the Pacers back to Indianapolis with a 2-0 lead in the series, which doesn't mean they're a lock to make the NBA Finals for the first time in 25 years, but perhaps means a lock has moved in just down the street from them.)

(And why am I using all these parentheses?)

Anyway ...

Anyway, the Pacers rode yet another big night from yet another different guy, of which they seem to have an inexhaustible supply these days. Two nights ago it was Aaron Nesmith, who dropped 30 on the Knicks including a record six threes in the fourth quarter; last night, it was Pascal Siakam, who went off for 39 points on 15-of-23 shooting after a relatively quiet 17-point evening in Game 1.

Not so in Game 2. Siakam opened by scoring the Pacers' first 11 points, matched his Game 1 total in the first quarter and went on from there. All five Indiana starters scored in double figures, with Myles Turner going for 16 points, Tyrese Haliburton 14 and 11 assists, and Nesmith and Andrew Nembhard a dozen apiece.

The Pacers shot a tick under 52 percent and a tick over 43 percent from the arc, bottoming 13 threes. Siakam was 3-for-5 from there.

Jalen Brunson (36 points, 11 assists), Mikal Bridges (20 and seven rebounds) and Karl-Anthony Towns (20 and seven) all had big nights for the Knicks again, but again playing three-on-five didn't work. The Knicks got 27 points from everyone else, including just 11 off a bench that suddenly looks desperately thin.

And now a trip to the wilds of Indiana awaits them, where they will surely be greeted with an abundance of warmth and hail-fellow-well-met from the local citizenry.

Not.