The Cavs thought they'd evened up the series with a hard-fought Game 2 win. Tyrese Haliburton changed all of that. Here's our instant reactions.

The Indiana Pacers and Cleveland Cavaliers are currently engaged in a heated second-round battle that has seen tempers flare already. Both are extremely tough and gritty which is a large part of why they swept the Milwaukee Bucks and Miami Heat respectively in their first-round matchups.

The Cleveland Cavaliers and Boston Celtics each won 60-plus games, an average of 12 more than the lower-seeded Indiana Pacers and New York Knicks. As the East series take a day off before resuming Friday -- Indiana and New York take their 2-0 leads into Games 3 and 4 at home -- let's examine what has gone wrong for the favorites and what that tells us about the chances of Boston and Cleveland coming back to reach an East finals matchup that seemed inevitable a week ago.