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Message: [QUOTE="JoePgh, post: 3697107, member: 1131"] Geez!???! It stuns me that this MYTH continues to be repeated as if it were gospel. Go back and re-watch the games from 2001 or 2002, and you will see that he has no such fixed philosophy. He will play as many (or as few) as can earn their minutes. Playing only six or seven in recent years (since the Walker class came in) was due to the deficiencies in those classes, to some degree in talent but mostly in effort, fitness, and absorption of the system. During the Stewie years, there were six or seven players whose ability was head-and-shoulders above the others on the team, so they got the minutes in competitive games. But when he has had teams where the talent level of the 8th, 9th, or even 10th player was in the same ballpark as that of the 4th or 5th player, he has given minutes to everyone who earned them. Another example would be his handling of his Olympic teams, which were similar to the early 2000-era UConn teams in their talent level. I do agree that 2020-21 will probably be one of the years in which he has at least a 9-player rotation. Everyone but Piath and Autumn, most likely, will get more than token minutes even in competitive games. [/QUOTE]