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Message: [QUOTE="dollarbill44, post: 1223886, member: 686"] Intellectually dishonest? Seriously? I don't get this view at all. You seem to be taking the stance in your posts that by developing a deeper bench by giving regular minutes (for some reason you seem to think this must mean a platoon with equal minutes among all players) to guys is going to reduce the effectiveness of the top 5 players. In most seasons, our first 5 are going to be ready mentally and physically to contribute to team success. Last year and this year are exceptions at PG because we had/have a freshman running the offense. But, we certainly have inexperienced guys vying for the 2/3 role and the fact is, most of them were on the team last year and would have benefitted from more meaningful game experience. If you don't believe that game experience counts WAY more than practice time, I won't debate this topic any more. Speaking of practice vs game experience, I think a lot of people have misconceptions about what takes place at typical team practices. From a lot of comments on this thread, such as "BJ got a lot of experience going against CJ in practice", I get the impression that people think a practice is one long scrimmage where the bench players are getting experience playing against the first team. That's not how practices go. There is a lot of instruction and drilling of both individual skills and team concepts (i.e. where to be in the zone in certain circumstances, full-court press, inbounds plays, fast breaks, etc). I would bet that most practices have very little scrimmaging (10-15 minutes) where they might also be limited to only employing what they learned during that session. While some practices have more intensity than others, it is far different from the intensity of a real game. Baye was capable as a defender and rebounder, as you point out, but he was an absolute offensive liability that year. As for Riley, I absolutely believe that he would have been more ready to handle stepping in for AO in March had he played more minutes during the season. I guess we will have to acknowledge different viewpoints on this topic, which by your reasoning makes me intellectually dishonest.:bat: [/QUOTE]

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