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Message: [QUOTE="Jimdish255, post: 4247220, member: 137"] This I mostly disagree with. A young player is supposed to be behind the veterans early on and they're supposed to struggle under the bright lights early in their careers as well. But keeping them on the bench does nothing to close that gap and nothing to get you closer to evaluating their potential. What can actually happen is they recognize the coach runs a short rotation and they accept their role as a practice player with their usefulness being defined by the advancement of the starters. Practices are always geared more towards game prep for the starters than development of your depth, but that can be taken to an extreme. Guys get stale and if they are suddenly needed you get a deer in the headlights. The sacrifice was not made to give younger guys meaningful minutes early in the season and that doesn't just hurt you down the stretch it slows your overall progress. Hopefully it does not impact player retention, but that is a possibility as well. And of course you play your best guys in big games. But the combination of failing to bring in a shooter/distributor, and not spreading out the minutes, got the starters to their potential sooner but also wore guys out and slowed our development overall. And I think we needed to get Akok lots more minutes. Maybe there was some physical reason but he never looked comfortable and his inside/outside game was missed in favor if focusing on Sanogo. Nobody gas all the answers but it's always been my philosophy to give guys more of a shot early to see what you have and keep them motivated and ready. [/QUOTE]

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