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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4770440, member: 3535"] Can I ask "why? " You've seen a healthy Paige perform in Overtimes (and even multiple) wen healthy. If she is healthy why wouldn't you want to give her near all 40 minutes in a close game? If she is healthy and didn't show she was affected, why pull her for maybe other than 1 or 2 minutes? That's the NPOY. There is no bench player close to a NPOY type player. And the same goes for Azzi. She's a NPOY contender. Wy give her much of a rest? And the same goes for Edwards. She is a top 10 All-American contender. I know a lot of people are just super nice and just want everyone to eat. But if you pull any of the above three tremendous players above in which two have played huge minutes but when they played showed that they did not wear down while playing terrific, -- why such fear? If you are scared of Paige injury -- fine. Not my point. But if healthy, more than likely there is near zero-chance these 21 year-olds are going to wear down. There is going to be too many blowouts. [B]So why not 7 or 8? Or max of 9 rather than up to 11? [/B] Why take the ball out of your two NPOY contenders hands and your other top 10 A/A contender's hands when you don't have to? For example, you give Paige 37 minutes instead of 40 in that NCAA Tourney game and in those 3 minutes UCONN lost enough ground that she was out that cost UCONN the game. How is that fair to the team in that you've already witnessed Paige play over 40 vs elite teams and play at obscene levels. What caused the decision to pull her? Certainly not historical stats, right? So, the idea is to pull arguably the 3 top ten player’s in wcbb for minutes they could otherwise handle for an imaginary shot block or steal is okay? IMO it's not. [/QUOTE]

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