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Message: [QUOTE="Ferrarifan, post: 4270624, member: 11976"] Just because you CAN play your top 5 for 38-40 minutes doesn't mean it is always optimal. The thing nearly everyone is missing is that fatigue doesn't take a player from being able to play 100% one second to being dead the next. Your performance slowly degrades or you have to throttle back on effort. 30 minutes of Christyn at 100% effort and 10 minutes of Caroline at 100% might just be better than Christyn at 80% for 40 minutes. Same with Azzi and Aliyah. Hell, even if each of them plays 5 minutes less and Caroline picks up those 15 minutes, I think we may still be better off. When effort gets throttled back, a lot of little bad things happen. Closeouts are slower, players get beat off the dribble, people stop cutting to stay open, players are slower to 50/50 balls, players stop boxing out and just ball watch. I could go on and on. In a close game, these are huge. Don't even joke about such things!!! Exactly. You shouldn't lose much by putting her out there and you gain a lot by keeping fresh legs on everyone else. Now, if she has slow starts off the bench, that is a real issue that needs to be solved or this is all moot. [/QUOTE]