Pacers' youth movement is the right way to finish year
Maybe Jim O'Brien had a moment of clarity, a sudden thunderbolt of enlightenment.
Maybe team president Larry Bird, who generally maintains a hands-off approach with his coaches, got in his coach's ear.
But the Indiana Pacers' perpetually embattled coach seems to have gotten the message and, at this point, I don't care how or from whom he got it:
He's playing the young guys.
Finally.
And it's paying off, first with a road victory Tuesday night in Philadelphia and then again Wednesday night in a 102-89 victory over the Dirk Nowitzki-less Dallas Mavericks.
We've been screaming about this for, um, how long?
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