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Message: [QUOTE="UcMiami, post: 3044602, member: 199"] Just a heads up on any of these minutes comparisons - there are a few important factors: 1. previous years minutes include a full season, this year we still have 5 easy-ish conference games left, plus 2 easy-ish tournament games, plus the first weekend of the NCAA tournament. 2. This year's bench has gotten minutes in a much more varied level - at various time Bent, Irwin, Coombs, and Ono have been the flavor of the day or week, so the average minutes for each is lower than previous years when there has been a clear 6th and 7th player. They average 9.3 - 12.0 minutes per game (fairly interchangeable.) The bench is averaging 50 minutes a game which is not chump change. 3. None of the bench players is a 'force' offensively so Geno has consistently kept a few starters on the floor with the bench until the final minute(s) to keep some semblance of offensive flow. The players chosen to play extended minutes have varied and it has added to all of their average minutes - earlier in the year it was the freshman Williams who was averaging 34 minutes. Now it has shifted to Lou and Crystal. 4. Fouls are a huge factor, and except for Ono, no one on the team has been foul prone this year - a stark contrast to previous years where Geno was frequently managing starters minutes because of fouls. [/QUOTE]