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[QUOTE="UConnStats, post: 5098550, member: 5842"]
Yeah as much as you want to find time for everyone, Diarra is their best defender and passer at this point. He will play plenty.

It will be interesting to see Ball’s defense against taller players. He has a plus wingy (it’s been reported as long as 7 ft) and he’s a strong kid. If he can consistently guard 3s that will give them much more opportunity to play all 3 of Diarra, Mahaney, and Ball at once.

There are 160 Min/G at the 1-4. Karaban will play about 32, but this year let’s say they go small with him at center for 5 minutes per game. That leaves 133 minutes at the 1-4 for everyone else.

27 Diarra
27 Mahaney
27 Ball
27 McNeeley
25 Stewart

That would theoretically eat up every single minute. I’m sure Ross and Nowell will see some PT too. There will be injuries, foul implications, individual underperformance, etc that will impact things. Still, the bottom line is that there are plenty of minutes for the guys who we expect to be focal points of the team. Who technically gets the starting nod is irrelevant to me personally.
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