I dunno. Seems to me that they’re trying to win games by giving minimal effort, in order to conserve energy. Almost as though, as someone said, they expect to win merely by their presence. Either that or since the games are effectively meaningless they find it hard to give 110%. Which they don’t need to until the playoffs. Obviously if they played the whole game like they did after Pasta scored they’d have demolished Detroit. As Aussie Bruin said, they’re in a weird spot.
Edit: but giving minimal energy doesn’t work because you end-up expending it late in the game anyway. So I dunno. Playoffs can’t come soon enough.