Paul George wasn’t happy following the Indiana Pacers’ Tuesday night loss, at home, to the Minnesota Timberwolves. He was mad. Upset. Straight pissed off. And he was even more frustrated that the rest of his team wasn’t matching his anger.
Per the Indianapolis Star‘s Nate Taylor and Nuvo.net’s Jon R. LaFollette:
PG was asked if anyone on the team is at his level of urgency.
PG: "I'm not going to answer that."
— Jon R. LaFollette (@JonLawFilet) March 29, 2017
Paul George: “There’s no urgency, no sense of urgency, no winning pride. This locker room is just not pissed off enough.”
— Nate Taylor (@ByNateTaylor) March 29, 2017
Good thing George isn’t a free agent until 2018, right?
The Pacers’ dropped to seventh place in the East after the loss to Minny. They’re now one game in front of the eighth-place Miami Heat, and two games ahead of the ninth-place Chicago Bulls. Five of their final eight contests are on the road, where, at 11-25, they play like a bottom-10 team. They could fall to eighth or, worse, out of the playoff picture entirely.
George has every right to be pissed. As for whether his comments, which weren’t uttered in a combative tone, are what the locker room needs to push pass this protracted stretch of alternating wins and losses, that’s a different story. But if he is this frustrated by the team’s demeanor, you can bet all isn’t well in Pacers Land.
