I see no tinkering with the starting five for the rest of the season. But I thought it might be interesting to speculate on the distribution of minutes against the AAC that could improve the team most for March.
1--- My mix would start with 30 minutes apiece for Chrystal and Natalie. I would even try to get one full game for each of them too, obviously Nat would need a good recovery period after!
2--- Next I would give 20 minutes to Molly and ten to Kyla.
I would hold 15 on average for Saniya, enough to hold of rust, but save her legs for the tourneys.
That leaves 20 plus minutes each for the core four and fun time for Tierney.
1.) Please no no no no no no.
Thanks for killing team chemistry.
2.)) You've got to be kidding?
This infatuation with "minutes" is just make believe. It's a massive over-exaggeration by posters such as yourself. I can't believe so many of you have bought into this myth issue that as if our batteries are overlaoed. You realize we've won, right? How did a deeper bench help MD? They lost, remember? You want to take away that momentum by benching the starters? Are some of you out of your minds? And the belief that a big bench is going to defeat superior talent? We just beaten everyone the entire month in which we should have supposedly worn down but haven't/ Even when our best player/or 2nd best had the flu and probably others and even a time when Chong was out. You think these 20 year olds are brittle?
*********Let's compare minutes for that "40-0 team of 2013-2014 vs 2016-2017:
Dolson: 32.3 mpg Nurse 35.5
Hartley: 31.9 mpg Lou 33.2.
Stewie: 30.5 mpg Collier 31.3
MoJeff: 29.7 mpg Gabby 29.1
KML: 29.2 Danger 23.2
So Nurse's minutes can be cut by 3-4 minutes if you want to equate her with Dolson and Lou by 1.5 minutes if you want to equate her Hartley and cut 1 minute from Collier if you want to equate her with Stewie.
The others are less.
Can we please stop with this over-exaggerated paranoia? Some minutes need to be reduced but the core 4 still needs to remain sharp. Twenty minutes per game doesn't cut it. If your minute distrubution is more than 20 -- around 25+ I'd be okay or a bit less if Chong is showing something. They still have to work on playing together. You may be short-changing Chong.