The reeling Indiana Pacers have announced they are benching all five of their starters for Wednesday night's game against the Milwaukee Bucks.
One game after All-Star center Roy Hibbert was benched for the entire second half of the team's 107-88 blowout home loss to the Atlanta Hawks, coach Frank Vogel has decided to sit the entire unit of Hibbert, Paul George, Lance Stephenson, David West and Thomas George against the Milwaukee Bucks.
"The starters are not going to play tonight, all five of them," Vogel told Pacers.com. "We're going to rest them and try to heal up some various bumps and bruises involved with all five guys. We're not playing well as a basketball team right now and the starters aren't playing well. Our bench is not playing well. We want to try to get the starters on track by getting their legs back under them and getting them healed up."
The Pacers still trial two-time defending champion Miami by just ½ game for the best overall record in the Eastern Conference and Vogel said the starters would return for Friday night's showdown in South Beach against the champs.
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After opening the season at 42-13, the Pacers have gone just 13-13 since around the All-Star break. As for sitting all five of his starters and what sort of message he might being trying to send, Vogel deflected all the questioning.
"If you sit one or two guys for the game, nobody ever finds a rhythm," he said. Against Milwaukee, the Pacers planned to start Donald Sloan, Evan Turner, Rasual Butler, Luis Scola and Ian Mahinmi.
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