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Message: [QUOTE="oldhusky, post: 4942725, member: 9844"] I get your point in general terms. Do other teams shorten their rotations and have a player or two play the whole game or close to it? Yes some do, and some players have great endurance, but I think many players are not expected to have maximum effort every minute on the defensive end. Trade offs are made to keep a star in the game to do what they do best. This team has wound up playing small. Because they don't have a great shot blocker or rebounder behind them, it needs to be a group effort on the boards, and we need to play very aggressive defense on the perimeter, hoping to also generate more turnovers and get some offense from our defense. That is the identity of this team with whatever players we have left. That approach is relatively exhausting, and our best player is also forced to play out of position at the 4, battling bigger players all game long. Each game is different too. We handled the minutes in the big East tournament pretty well, but clearly they were gassed at the end of the Duke game. I personally don't get it with Q. A 6 player rotation is such a big disadvantage in so many ways, and statistically per minute Q is pretty close to Nika, Ash, and KK and way way ahead of Ice, it's not even close. Now I get it that she can't guard a post player, and you need Ice for that, but Q is actually a better rebounder than Ice, and when resting Nika, Ash, or KK she seems not like a possible choice, but in fact the obvious choice. She does make me nervous when she is in there but so does Ice. Anyway the other thing that scares me is keeping a player stuck on the bench, showing your lack of confidence in her, and then potentially having to throw her into a crucial moment at game end because someone fouls out. I would rather see a few minutes in the first half to see how she handles the big stage. [/QUOTE]

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