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[QUOTE="Niastri, post: 4755259, member: 722"]
With Mintz and Starling penciled in as the starters and each getting, say, 30 minutes each, that leaves Westry, Copeland, Taylor, Bell and Cuffe competing for the 3rd guard/small forward position.

With 60 minutes spread among 5 guys, someone is going to be disappointed.  I suspect Cuffe is the odd man out, playing sparingly... He's just been out of the game too long, and needs to prove he's fully recovered and not rusty. The fact he transferred into a full backcourt leans me to believe he understands this situation. That still leaves insufficient minutes for the remaining guys, unless we play really small a lot of the time.

In ACC play a lineup with three guards and either Bell or Taylor at forward is a recipe to never get a rebound.

Westry being great helps with this problem, or Bell greatly improving his rebounding, but we can't count on that based on previous performance.

This also takes minutes from Brown and Williams, who have their own minutes crunch at PF.   The Highlander and Hima will play 40 minutes against bigger ACC opponents, Brown just didn't have the mass or height to defend or rebound from the middle.

The best players will play the most minutes, but for the first time in a long time I'm feeling pretty good about the competition and the depth of somebody goes down.
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