No Glenn Robinson III? No problem. No Thaddeus Young? No, wait… Myles Turner, too? Well, good thing Lance Stephenson… is resting too? At least the new guys… Really? Domantas Sabonis, Bojan Bogdanovic and Victor Oladipo aren’t playing? OK, well at least some of the Fort Wayne Mad Ants like Trey McKinney Jones… OH C’MON, YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?!
That was the situation on Monday night for the Indiana Pacers as they chose to rest many of their players in a preseason matchup with the Detroit Pistons. The final result had the Pistons beating the Pacers 107-97, but that wasn’t what the Pacers were worried about when they put their team on the floor.