The Indiana Pacers have just seven games left in the season, and with a season that started off strong, they looked as though they were championship worthy. Now they have taken a turn for the worse. By now you can see which teams are gaining momentum going into the playoffs, and those teams who seem to be crumbling under pressure. The Pacers went 4-6 in their last 10 games and failed to score more than 80 points in their last 5/6 games, causing them to look completely lost on offense and out of sync with each other.
After Friday’s loss to Washington, Roy Hibbert expressed some concerning thoughts after the game:
“Some selfish dudes in here,” Roy Hibbert muttered Friday night, after getting just eight shots in the Pacers’ loss to the Wizards. “Some selfish dudes. I’m tired of talking about it. We’ve been talking about it for a month.”
“We play hard, but we’ve got to move the ball,” Hibbert said. “Is it obvious, or what? I don’t know whatever our assist ratio, or whatever it is, is in the league, but it probably isn’t up there. I’m really trying hard not to spaz out right now, but I don’t know. We’ve been talking about it for a month. I’m not handling the rock. I don’t know. I’ve made suggestions before and we do it for, like, one game, and then we revert back to what we are. I don’t know. I’m not the one to answer that question. It directly affects me and the bigs. We’re just out there and it makes us look bad.”
Clearly Hibbert is unhappy with his teammates performance by calling them out to the media, which is out of character for him. Comments like these could cause great stress on the locker room, which is not something you want when your this close to Playoff season. What Indiana really needs to focus on now is getting back on track and finishing the season off strong.
Indiana has seven games left in the season, 3 of which are against teams with winning records. One of those games being against the Miami Heat. Currently with Miami up half a game for the number one seed in the conference this could prove to be one of the biggest games of the season.
