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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1302627, member: 581"]
Do you think anyone plays the type of minutes that Cooney and Rak do though?

Cooney runs around endlessly on offense.  The amount of movement for that kid I would say exceeds the other guards by a considerable margin - just an opinion, but I would say it's true.  Do you think playing guard is more taxing than forward in the zone?

I think Rak also is in a bad spot in that quite often he is going toe-to-toe in the post.  Which is quite a battle and VERY taxing on the body.  He also has to beat his man down the court on defense so you often see him on a dead sprint to get back on D against transition teams like Carolina, Duke, etc...The forwards, as we all see at times (Duke being a good example of this) can take a little bit more of a break getting back on defense at times.  That's not to say they take a walk down court every other possession btw.

There have been games where Rak and Cooney look straight up busted.  Cooney bent over looking like a wreck.  There was one game, maybe Wake Forest, early in the ACC schedule, where Rak could barely work his way down court he was so gassed at the end of the first half.  It's phenomenal that they do play 40 so much, it's awesome, but is it always so necessary?
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