The Indiana Pacers uneven month of March has left teammates sniping at one another.
"Some selfish dudes in here," All-Star center Roy Hibbert muttered following Friday night's loss to the Washington Wizards, according to NBA.com. "Some selfish dudes. I'm tired of talking about it. We've been talking about it for a month."
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The Pacers followed up Hibbert's mini-rant by getting blasted by the Cleveland Cavaliers on Sunday, raising the level of locker room tension for the team that now only leads the Miami Heat by a game in the Eastern Conference for the No. 1 seed.
While teammates have been careful not to publicly name names in terms of sizing up what not ails the Pacers, NBA.com reports its not a secret that most of the blame is being placed on the shoulders of All-Star forward Paul George.
"We know we can't beat Miami playing that way, so we don't play that way," added forward David West. "We know what the margin for error is. I think everybody, to a man in this locker room, just feels like we've got to figure out a way to play better, have a better approach to the way we play offensive basketball. It's just not good for us."
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West later hinted he fears all the Pacers' early success may have gone to their heads. "I just don't know if we're handling success and being out front the right way," he said. "When we don't share the ball, we have 10, 15 possessions where we don't make a single pass, and you've got four guys, or nine guys on the floor watching one guy, watching two guys, it's on us. We've got too much on the line. This game is about rhythm, flow."
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