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Message: [QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 1860465, member: 405"] It's really more complicated than that. Almost every year, we play four guards until about mid-January or February, and then we cut down to 3 guards for the stretch run. Even in a season like last season when we had so little bench, Kaleb Joseph still got some time until about mid-season, before he disappeared. The year before, Ron Patterson got 29 games as our 4th guard, at more than 10 minutes a game. You have to have four guards, just due to injury. You have to build some depth before you cut the rotation down. Sure, every year in March, we only play 7 or 8 guys, but for the first 3 or 4 months of the season, we go deeper, certainly whenever we have enough players worthy of an opportunity. But our rotation has almost never been only 7 guys for 35 games. People just don't hold up to the wear and tear, and you don't develop anyone for the future that way. [/QUOTE]