(12-20-2017, 04:47 PM)FBT Wrote:

(12-20-2017, 02:22 PM)americus 2.0 Wrote: This is the same mentality people here have had that says in the last quarter of the season we lose games to get a better draft position. That's crap. You play to win- always. We haven't 'arrived' yet. The season isn't over and we fight until it is. Can you imagine the foolishness that would come from the masses if we rested guys and lost otherwise winnable games? This MB alone would be in a meltdown that would intimidate Chernobyl. 

And as someone else mentioned, can you imagine going into the playoffs with a two game losing streak? We can't give anyone any reason to rail on us for being less than what we are. We get enough of that as it is. We are as good as we are and people are still not taking us seriously, we can't give them any rope with which to hang us.

Sometimes playing to win means being smart with the guys you’re leaning on the most once the tournament begins.  Seeing a critical starter go down to injury in a meaningless game would be devastating for this team, and they are simply too good to risk that.