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Message: [QUOTE="Bone Dog, post: 5098319, member: 12088"] I don’t agree. A practical starting five with three guards and two forwards fairly leaps out of the data. The highest confidence players are Paige Jana and Ash, and after them, people are divided between KK and Kaitlyn (presumably at PG), on the one hand, and Ice and Sarah (presumably at forward) on the other. This is the clear outline of a 5+2 lineup. Admittedly, confidence ratings for starters are not direct expressions of who the chief subs will be (the +2 in the 5+2), but the correlation seems likely. This is what the BY hive mind appears to think. Also, it’s worth noting that the data give a slight edge to KK and Ice over Kaitlyn and Sarah, making the latter pair the first two off the bench. A less likely reading is that Geno will alternate these players game by game. I say less likely merely because past sentiment in the BY has been against churning the starting lineup absent an important reason. “We” seem to think that once Geno settles on a lineup, he’ll stick to it for awhile. This suggests a quite resaonable starting five of [INDENT]Paige[/INDENT] [INDENT]Jana[/INDENT] [INDENT]Ash[/INDENT] [INDENT]KK[/INDENT] [INDENT]Ice[/INDENT] I say reasonable because “we” seem to have plumped for the players with the most experience from last season. This lineup also minimizes the role of untested freshmen, which is another common sentiment on the BY. They will surely get minutes at some point, but the hive mind appears to think they will not be as prominent as the returners from last season plus Paige. [/QUOTE]

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