It is interesting to read the responses. Just to clarify, although I do believe this team looks to be the deepest on paper in the pre season that Hurley has had, I make no assertions that this will be good or bad for what that means regarding how we will perform.
I think depth helps, but I also agree that history tells us Hurley will at most go with a 9 man rotation and if Demary, Ball, Mullins, Karaban and Reed all play well and then we see Stewart, Reibe and Smith play the exact roles that Hurley want them to play, Hurley is more than capable of shortening the rotation to 8 players.
If that happens Ross and Furphy may find it difficult to get much playing time. In that scenario it could end up being Koroma who gets more time than both of the (Ross and Furphy) to see any really meaningful minutes if Reed can’t stop fouling and Reibe is over matched on the defensive end of the floor and that leads to foul trouble.
The only place depth has an impact is making practices more competitive but just playing well in practice does not equal playing time as we have seen with Ross.
I was just simply asking what is the feeling regarding how deep we are in pre season, of course I agree that we were all convinced that we were deep last year in the pre season….then Mahaney could not find a role or was just not good enough, Ross was just running around trying to do too much when he got in the game and the freshman other than McNeeley were not good enough.
