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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
Dave Rose has been really bad about developing rotations.
Let's watch this year for
1) the guy in the first half mysteriously getting tons of minutes despite poor play
2) the guy with great potential/ability, especially defense, who doesn't get any minutes until the end of the season, and then transfers out after the season is over.
Player #1 is usually a white stiff. Player #2 is usually African-American.
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No signs of either of these in the last game. Rose played a tight rotation of 7 players, which is unusual for his teams that early in the season. Princeton was a must win though, so he kept the best players on the court and it worked. Princeton will go under the radar for the casual fan, but they're going to be a top 40 rpi team. They return their best 7 players from last year from a team that went 22-7, plus a 6-9 guy who sat out last year with an injury, but who was their best player two years ago. Mika got him to foul out.
No one this year fits the #2 description as far as I can tell. Bryant didn't play all that well but he's still coming back from two months away with a knee injury. Before the injury a lot of people were saying he was one of the best players on the team.