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[QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 3678590, member: 6357"]
Look, I agree with JB’s overarching philosophy that playing your best guys 35-40 mpg (even when tired) is better than playing the 9th or 10th guy 5-10 mpg. Especially when those guys at the end of the bench just aren’t anywhere near as good as your best players. My issue is that JB has consistently said he feels it’s best to have a consistent rotation of 8 players, with a backup guard, backup forward and backup center. But there are many times over the past 5-6 seasons when he defies that and only plays 6, maybe 7 guys in a given game. He goes against his own philosophy. It doesn’t seem like any of our backup centers are ready for regular minutes this season (all are raw), and Sid is still working his way back into game shape. I’m hopeful that once Sid is healthy and back in game shape, we can bring Griffin off the bench (and shift Marek to center), and play Kadary as the guard sub (consistent minutes please...at least 20mpg), and Woody or Braswell at forward, depending on how each is performing. That’s a very solid rotation. We run our starters too hard. But it wasn’t always this way. Even Carmelo and Gmac didn’t play 40mpg during our national title year. We had a perfect bench rotation that year with Edelin, Pace and McNeil. In 2011-12, we had Waiters, CJ, Southy, and Keita all coming off the bench. Rak started but didn’t play big minutes, so basically a regular rotation of 8.
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