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Message: [QUOTE="pfister1, post: 125730, member: 285"] SU got a total of 5 points out of three starters last night. Fab 4 ; Brandon 1 and Rak 0. I don't think you can minimize the bench production after last night's game. Fair is only averaging 7.7 ppg. if you flip flop him and Rak you still get 28(?) ppg from the bench. That said, I agree with what you are saying about Rak and him really being a starter in name alone, but I don't think he is as relegated to the two minute role as Fab became last year. I don't think last night was a particularly good matchup for him because of the offensive nature of the game. We could not afford to have both a PF and C that weren't really a threat offensively on the floor at the same time. Rak played 20 mins. against GW; 11 mins. vs. Marshall; 2 vs. Florida; 23 vs. E. Michigan; 4 vs. Stanford and 3 vs. Va Tech. In that same string of games James got the following run: 13 vs. GW; 18 vs. Marshall; 11 vs. FL; 19 vs. E Mich.; 7 vs. Stanford; 6 vs. Va Tech JB's rotation has always shrunk considerably against better teams and in tighter matchups. I think this happens even more when we get to the BE season. I am not saying that it will definitely happen this year, just that I am not convinced that we have yet seen the player rotation we will see beginning in 2012. One thing that seems like it will change this year is his use of the hot hand. With Dion, Fair and South coming off of the bench, I think JB has three guys that have the potential to give us more on any given night than any group of three non-starters we've had in a long, long time. If our starters don't come out of the gate on fire, I don't see how these 3 guys don't all get a shot to give us something in every game. Game to game who gets the bulk of the run will depend on who seems to have the hot hand. I love that we have this flexibility. [/QUOTE]

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