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Message: [QUOTE="auror, post: 3363451, member: 1329"] Bingo. Late minutes ARE more important due to leverage. At least in games suspected of being close. Coaches benching players with 2 fouls are sacrificing less important minutes to trade them for a higher likelihood of having the better team in high leverage situations. This ALL being said, Akok played 25 minutes and on the season he's averaging like 26 minutes per game. When he got his 2nd foul, it was pretty much time for his normal break. There was only 5 minutes left in the half. The real time he lost minutes was when he picked up his 3rd foul. He was set for a longer shift at that point. He sat out 9 minutes when he probably would've only sat out 3 or 4 in that stretch. BUT, in that time, Indiana literally only scored 2 points (!!!!) and UConn was +5 overall and Sid had good minutes. We lost the game in 2 stretches. When Gilbert was out in the first half and we didn't know how to run our offense and turned the ball over 8 times in 8 minutes, so Hurley brought him back in with 2 fouls (as advocated as the correct move by people in this thread), and the last 4.5 minutes when we had our starters in. [B]Akok played 10 of those 12.5 minutes.[/B] [/QUOTE]