Having rescued the team's first win in the last five games during Friday's 111-101 against the Chicago Bulls, star forward Paul George is vowing to give more effort to his Indiana Pacers.

“I owe this team more,” George told Michael Lee of The Vertical. “And I’m going to give more. Regardless of what’s going on on the court, I’m going to make sure I’m having fun.”

George went off for a game-high 32 points on 50 percent shooting from the floor against the Bulls as the Pacers managed to hold on to their halftime lead through the end of regulation.

“You can’t be relaxed, thinking it’s going to be like this all season,” George said. “These teams are going to start building momentum. They’re going to start getting into their strides. They’re going to start separating themselves and we don’t want to be that team at the end of the season, trying to scrap and fight our way into it, give everything we have and have nothing left for the playoffs.”

The Pacers (16-18) have struggled to put together more than two wins in a row throughout the first 34 games of the season with a team that is wanting to come together but has failed to do it thus far.

“You’ve got to have chemistry. You’ve got to learn guys. That usually takes some time. We hate to keep preaching that, because we need to be able to win these games now,” George said. “You don’t understand how to really win games until everybody knows what everyone’s agenda [is] and what everyone on the court is doing.”

Paul George has been encouraged by nights when the Pacers can pull their talents together and share the ball – such as Friday’s outing against the Bulls in which point guard Jeff Teague had a season-high 17 assists despite struggling from the floor shooting 2-of-13 on the night.

The 6-foot-9 All-Star knows he will need to be nothing short of spectacular each and every night to help the Pacers regain their footing in the East.

“We can’t afford to take steps backward,” George said.