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Message: [QUOTE="diggerfoot, post: 4102788, member: 1673"] ? I don’t understand your point, at least as it is supposed to be a response to mine. The thrust of my argument is that Muhl is caught in the middle. I repeatedly called the starting five impressive, but they are not going to be played for 200 minutes, or at least they should not be. Muhl’s offensive stats warrants her as a good sub for a team that could use her facilitation more than her sharpshooting. This is only one game again, but extrapolating to the norm based on her assists and turnovers of last year is a lot closer than extrapolating her 0-fer number. She is the second best facilitator on the team, based on this game and last year’s norm, while the best facilitator was the volume shooter for this game. But even though Muhl’s value might warrant her being first sub in and most minutes, she instead became fourth sub in and second most minutes because the newcomers must be played to be developed. Your counter to my point only makes sense if you thought the newcomers already brought more value as subs for starters you are not going to play for 200 minutes, or if you thought the starters should play 200 minutes, or you thought I was claiming Muhl should be a starter. If you thought Fudd played a better game than Muhl we saw different things out there, perhaps making way too much out of one 0-3 game and making it sound like the norm. After all Fudd with her 3-7 is nit far off from Muhl’s norm for last year. But the strategy behind why Fudd got 5 more minutes was the anticipation that with development she will be a more valuable sub, not that she was the most valuable sub for this game. If the game was tighter from the start, given their performances, Muhl likely would have received more minutes, because she was clearly performing better than the other subs for this one game. The only time the game was uncomfortable was when the other subs besides Muhl was brought in, so development was more important than current value for relieving starters that you are not going to play for 200 minutes. [/QUOTE]

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