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[QUOTE="Sgt Cuse, post: 139273, member: 1701"]
A couple of comments.  First, some of us have been dying for JB to play more people.  This is him doing it.  I love it.

Reasons for X-Mas to play:
1.  Development.  Look how it helped Fab.  Let's hope the same improvement can come out of this.  Also lets not write him off this season.  He's a frosh, he could start improving now.
2.  Rotation depth.  It's great to have 8 play significant minutes.  He might not play a lot if his play doesn't pick up, but starting minutes are significant minutes.
3.  Recruiting.  He's a signature recruit getting a token start.  Most people see that.  Yet every other McD probably sees themselves doing significantly more with the opportunity.
4.  This one is a little different.  But you don't spend multiple, uninterrupted, years in the top 5 if the pollsters don't know your returning starters.  It's greedy but I would like to go coast to coast top 5 this year and then repeat it next year.  Years ago, JB would play the top 5 as much as possible.  Good players, but not top 5, might not get much time.  Then the year when they were taking over, SU would take a dip in the polls because voters had never heard of these guys.
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