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[QUOTE="OttoMets, post: 2423077, member: 716"]
There are a million factors at play and most of the time some of them (an extra 2 game minutes of rest) don't matter much. Tyus Battle could be drunk on the court for 40 minutes and we'd beat Colgate every year. On the other side, Kansas would probably beat Syracuse in December if someone figured out the optimal minutes-to-rest ratio for every Syracuse player.

Against a team that's slightly better or evenly matched, though, I'd like to see us go after every possible advantage. If their guards play 35, I don't want ours playing 40. (Remember how the Bilases and Gottfrieds and Cooleys used to gush about SU's advantage when Scoop or Waiters would come off the bench at 10:00 to play against the other team's "tired" kids...or against their less talented reserves?) Even with our thin roster, ideally we'd have Battle sneaking in a little rest right before a TV timeout. Boeheim was pretty religious about that in the '90s. Now he's simplified things.
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