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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 59398, member: 716"]
One could argue that Triche fit neither criterion two years ago, and I think it worked out pretty well.

All summer long I was in the "No way Christmas starts - we'd play 4-on-5 on offense" camp. A lot of People Who Know have said with certainty that he'll start, though, and I could see why:

Christmas (unless Boeheim yanks him and crushes his confidence as he did with Fab) will benefit more from starting than from coming off the bench;

Fair will offer more as a sixth or seventh man than Christmas could;

Fair is not a traditional four; and (here's the unmentioned one)

We lost something like 32 of 35 opening tips last year with Fab, Keita, and maybe Southerland (once) jumping center. Fair wouldn't improve that. Christmas could. (OK, this can't be the deciding factor in starting a guy. But it's a nice secondary benefit.)

My revised guess is that Christmas starts and gets Craig Forth minutes; Fair comes off the bench as instant offense.
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