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[QUOTE="Sphinx, post: 5045828, member: 4623"]
I'll tell you what's a great problem to have.  It's a great problem to have five starters who are all NBA-caliber players and three competent backups -- one for the backcourt, one for center and one for the forecourt.  In other words, it's a great problem to have last year's team.

The problem this year is that there are too many players of[B][I] potential[/I][/B] NBA-caliber who are indistinguishable from one another.  This remains a problem only if the players remain indistinguishable from another; that is, none begins to show himself to be of NBA-caliber.  The problem, then, properly stated, will be not that we have too many players competing for too little time but that we have too few players of NBA-caliber.

The resolution to be hoped for is that several of these players will blossom into NBA-caliber performers.  They will become our starters and first reserves.  The rest will simply not get playing time, not because there isn't enough playing time, but because they aren't good enough to crack the top 7 or 8 that constitute the active roster of a championship team.
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