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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 4233465, member: 405"]
Do you think that some of the guys on our teams these past few years have been SO MUCH BETTER than other guys on the bench that OF COURSE they should play the whole game?

You do know that our players have been logging the most minutes of anyone in the entire country for the last several years.  Even Boeheim himself didn't used to play guys this many minutes 15-20 years ago.

Derrick Freaking Coleman did not average 34 minutes a game until his senior year, when he averaged 35, and he is the best player I've ever seen at Syracuse.

Billy Owens started every game as a frosh, but was used only 32 minutes a game, and averaged 35 minutes a game for his whole career.  Sherman Douglas, counting only his 3 years as a starter, averaged 32 to 35 minutes a game.

A 4 year starter for 126 games, John Wallace played 30, 32 and 33 minutes a game his first three seasons, and then only 36 minutes in 1996, the year when we basically only played six guys.

He has to play more guys 10-15 minutes a game (1) to build depth, and (2) to manage his personnel and relationships with his players better.

You have to make EVERYBODY feel like part of the team.
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