Players want to win, Management needs to step in.

Well in recent news the Pacers have begun to shoot themselves in the foot again by winning a couple of their last few. Bird needs to step in and say enough with all this winning. People are saying its good for the team to play together so they'll get better for next year, this is ridiculous. They have the off season for a reason and roster changes are a guaranteed thing this summer. All the team is doing by winning is keeping the franchise in a bad spot. Every other team in the league knows how this works. Why not the Pacers? Yeah sure lets try really hard now in garbage games to win but not during the games that count. Story of the Indiana Pacers. Players want to win, upper management needs to step in.

Let the young/core guys play (Granger, Rush, Hibbert, Price, D Jones, McRoberts, Solo,) and limit the time of the veterans who won't be here in the future. I've seen a little bit of this recently but usually not until the 4th quarter the core players need to be logging major minutes, a minimum of at least 25. I think everyone will agree with me that this is a wise plan, but why don't we see it happening?

As a former player myself, actually I'm still in high school, there is no way I would ever try to loose on purpose but if I weren't on the court I wouldn't have the choice. JOB focus doesn't need to be on winning. It needs to be on losing but more importantly developing Rush, Hibbert, Price, Solo, and Josh. 

By the numbers, now is the most important time to loose. We are currently in a three-way tie for the 5th pick with Sacramento and Detroit. We hold the tie breaker, this is huge. If the season were to end today the worst possible pick we could get would be the 8th pick. This is also very important because if we win another game and Sacramento and Detroit do not that would knock us down to the 7th spot in a tie with Philadelphia. Our worst pick then would be either the 10th or 11th selection. The major talent drops off severely after the top 5. We have the chance now to turn the franchise around, lets not blow it if that 's possible.

To sum it all up, unlike the recent documentary, right now is Loosing Time not Winning Time.