Agree.

There's only 10 healthy bodies on the roster, so if all 5 starters sat the 4th you'd have Deng, Nelms, Pemberton, Abraham, and Marcayla on the floor. All good players, they're at BU after all, but honestly it seems like the coaches don't want to play those 5 together for extended minutes for whatever reason. ?????

Good point. I am, however, certain those 5 would have benefited from the 10 min on the floor and would have extended the lead against alabama state. Would have been fun to watch.

I think you are delving into areas that only the coaches can answer. There are a lot more factors involved and ones we cannot see. I know not very long ago, CNC flat out stated that Nelms, for example, was not seeing more playing time because of how she practiced (wasn't treating it seriously enough, at least that was the way I interpreted what she said). I suspect some of it is trying to allow as much time for the starting group with rotation to work with each other as a group before we hit the games where they are going to have to be on the court to compete with the opponent.

I too feel sometimes that Scott plays too much, but I don't think it has to do with scoring points. I think once again, it may be that the coaches are convinced that as much time as possible is needed to fit these pieces together. NONE of our team from last year has ever played at Baylor with anyone like her. You need to hopefully learn her moves, anticipations, etc. to make the team flow smoothly and efficiently.

I do think yesterday that JVG was left in for the triple double and in this rare case, I think justified to do so.

However, the point here is correct that you do want your backups to have experience as well. No one will ever convince me that we would not have held our good lead and beaten UConn and gone to the Final Four if Kim had played Andrews and Oliver more during the season when there were plenty of opportunities to do so during conference play. Neither was ready when DiDi went down, and it showed. We seldom saw them play meaningful minutes that season.

Delmar 2.0 said:

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There's only 10 healthy bodies on the roster, so if all 5 starters sat the 4th you'd have Deng, Nelms, Pemberton, Abraham, and Marcayla on the floor. All good players, they're at BU after all, but honestly it seems like the coaches don't want to play those 5 together for extended minutes for whatever reason. ?????

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The score was 76 - 28 at the start of the 4th. It probably wouldn't have changed too much to let the benchers handle it all from there on out. But you want to talk something that has never made sense to me = the NFL and how they handle their QB's. 6 minutes left in a game with a 42 - 3 lead and the starter is still out there taking hits.

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Delmar 2.0 said:

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There's only 10 healthy bodies on the roster, so if all 5 starters sat the 4th you'd have Deng, Nelms, Pemberton, Abraham, and Marcayla on the floor. All good players, they're at BU after all, but honestly it seems like the coaches don't want to play those 5 together for extended minutes for whatever reason. ?????

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The score was 76 - 28 at the start of the 4th. It probably wouldn't have changed too much to let the benchers handle it all from there on out....

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It's a question someone should ask Coach Nicki at one of the pressers.

Fredbear, I agree one million percent. It makes zero sense to me. The second group should have played most of the second half, and ALL of the fourth quarter. Why in the world would you not rest/protect the starters in a game like that???? Not letting second tamers play much in these games is baffling, drives me crazy, and I will never understand why. The second group NEEDS more playing time, and if not in that game, WHEN????? And an injury to a key player when up by 50 can easily occur. I have many times seen teams getting killed get chippy and embarrassed. Perfect environment for a bad injury.