Should the Mavericks intentionally lose games to rest their stars?

Fresh off Rick Carlisle rested all five of his starters in a back-to-back against the Oklahoma City Thunder and promptly losing the game by a not-all-that-close 20 points, today's roundtable tackles whether intentionally losing games to rest starters actually makes sense. Here's the prompt that was given to our writers.

Rick Carlisle rested most of his starters vs. OKC for the fourth time this season, despite the players saying they'd rather be out there. Where do you stand on the drastic minutes restrictions? In what ways do you think it helps or hurts the team?