Business , and as adults you suck it up , as a coach or player , realize this and do what is the best long term for the team. Feel good wins are just what they are ..
It's over ....Let the season go and position the team for getting a talented player .....surely the players want the best talent in the team possible .
You really think that players would want to purposely lose to get a better player on the team for next year?
Really?
You think players think, on the business side of things, that they need to do something that is against everything they have ever been taught and coached so that the team can get a marginally better draft position to draft a player that, for all they now, might take their spot in the rotation or cost them minutes thereby costing them possible money in their next contract negotiation?
You really think players think, on the business side of things, that what's best for the team is best for them?
I have trouble believing that.
Yeah I'm with Nick on this one. The players are trying to win, even if some bogus "eye test" says otherwise.
They're trying to win, but they're not mentally checked in like you need to be for the entire game. Just fewer extra efforts and a lot less fight to overcome a series of bad possessions.
Not a surprise, I'm sure the entire team is looking forward to the offseason at this point.
agree with Nick and also agree that I don't think the players are completely checked in mentally for the final games.
Not sure the entire team is looking forward to the offseason though.
- AB's hitting free agency after a less-than-stellar year
- Hump has to worry about finding a team that will assuredly pay him much less next season
- Bass could end up traded elsewhere as could Green depending on who we draft
- Bogans won't be back or quite possibly even have a contract with any team for next year.
- Johnson and Babb don't have guarantees for next year and are likely trade bait or quite possibly cut after the next camp.
- Fav has to figure out if the NBA is worth sitting through a lot of DNP-CDs or if he should push to get back to Euro ball for next season.
- Bayless doesn't have a deal for next season and hasn't really shown he's that much better than some other bench-quality scrubs out there.
- Sully has had a lot of trade rumors swirling about him as a major trade piece to bring in an all-star. those rumors will most likely persist well after the draft.
Not to quibble, but I really only see 4 players that are probably looking forward to the offseason - Rondo, Wallace, Anthony and KO since they're under contract for another year and not terribly likely to be traded at this point.