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[QUOTE="Ghost, post: 1013815, member: 581"]
I think this point is what everyone throws out there, but it's never quite made sense to me.

I've played ball my whole life, as many of us probably have, and the fact is you do get tired at different points.  The trouble isn't that you can't get up and down the court when you're tired, when you're young of course you can.  The trouble is that a person, feeling a little out of gas, has a tendency to rest.  You see the kids bend over all the time - you don't think their tired?

When you take a few plays off here or there on offense that means you give up a three, it means you don't get down the floor for a runout that could have happened.  You can't measure whether you gain or lose by taking that kid (CJ if you wanna use that example) off the floor for those minutes, but I think it's valuable to give them the breather.  I think it's absurd to suggest they can run up and down all day long though, otherwise everyone who is better than their back-up would play 40 minutes barring foul trouble.

Especially at the end of the game I think those minutes could make a difference.  I also think there is some value in sitting a guy down and just letting him observe...coach him up a bit...36 minutes is a lot imo night in and night out.  Some guys it will rarely faze, some it will.
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