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[QUOTE="Mano22, post: 1099768, member: 3394"]
I think you guys are not pricing in the value added in case of an injury.  I understand (and agree) that JB clearly understands who is ready to contribute right now.  MUCH better than anyone on this board does.  But when we lose a player, we would certainly be better off if the guy behind him had a little more game experience.  So I guess it comes down to what are your goals?  It feels like JB's are basically title or bust.  Sure our best team gets marginally better by playing all of our game ready guys as much as possible, but our post-injury team gets a LOT worse.  If your goal is to simply win titles, and you don't think you can do it if a starter gets injured (barring getting super lucky etc), then JB's position makes perfect sense.  But if you wanna sacrifice, say 0.5% of our title chances to give us a 6% better chance to make the elite 8 if a key goes down (numbers completely made up obv), you should be getting the Tyler Robersons of the world some more minutes.

If we were a tier 2 programs, it might make sense to play more guys.  But we are an elite program, and I kind of agree with his title or bust philosophy.

And before anyone points out this or that anecdotal fact (my #1 pet peeve on this board and in life) clearly there exceptions to everything.  Sometimes we have more game ready guys.  Some starters are more important than others etc.  But this seems to be JB's general philosophy.
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