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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4146628, member: 9844"] Many of your points I agree with. As for why other teams play the end of the bench way way earlier than Geno in blowouts, I think the most logical conclusion is he likes to run up the score. He doesn't want to win by 25 instead of 30, or 35 instead of 40, and the development of players outside his main rotation is not that important to him. I believe he indicated one time that playing a shorter list of players develops better chemistry between them. I can see that to a certain degree, but think it comes with the downside of when you have to use players outside the normal rotation because of injury, illness, or foul trouble, they may not be ready. In addition of course truly talented players just outside the rotation may well leave. If you assume the maximum normal rotation in key games is 10 if everyone is healthy, then losing someone who likely never would be part of those 10 doesn't hurt too much. Still it is nice to have somebody that could be decent if needed, and putting in the third string with two minutes to go in a 40 point blowout is almost telling them to leave. That move could easily come early in the fourth quarter. If you want to fill the tail end with Pulido/Lawlor level players then fine, they might just be happy to be part of it, but players in the top 50 generally will not be. What worries me even more would be if we lost someone who could be in the top 10, but doesn't get to play minutes because Geno sticks with 7 or 8. [/QUOTE]

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