Depth

[FirstDownB]

Is there a more overrated thing in college basketball than depth? Let me specify that as within a game, not over the course of a season, which is important because of injuries. We played 8 guys today, two of which saw very little of the second half. We've had deeper teams, but somehow with a tighter rotation I feel this one may be better.
Sure, it would be nice to have one more post player to protect against foul trouble. But even with foul trouble Biggie was able to play (smartly, I may add) almost the entire second half.
I feel like with all the game breaks and the conditioning of these guys, keeping continuity is more advantageous than rest (Isaac being the one exception). I thought this was apparent in the second half today.
I will add that I am very impressed with Biggie's conditioning. For him to practically run the table that entire second half and still be going strong at the end.. Incredible.

 

[*4purdue*]

Is there a more overrated thing in college basketball than depth? Let me specify that as within a game, not over the course of a season, which is important because of injuries. We played 8 guys today, two of which saw very little of the second half. We've had deeper teams, but somehow with a tighter rotation I feel this one may be better.
Sure, it would be nice to have one more post player to protect against foul trouble. But even with foul trouble Biggie was able to play (smartly, I may add) almost the entire second half.
I feel like with all the game breaks and the conditioning of these guys, keeping continuity is more advantageous than rest (Isaac being the one exception). I thought this was apparent in the second half today.
I will add that I am very impressed with Biggie's conditioning. For him to practically run the table that entire second half and still be going strong at the end.. Incredible.

Still think you need depth. If IH & BS didn't log those minutes in the 1st half, we might have wore down & not been able to finish. It was clear that Biggie wanted this one though.

 

[FirstDownB]

Still think you need depth. If IH & BS didn't log those minutes in the 1st half, we might have wore down & not been able to finish. It was clear that Biggie wanted this one though.

Still, an eight man rotation wouldn't be considered deep by many. Last year we regularly played ten deep. Eight feels about right.

 

[TC4THREE]

There's different kinds of depth. There's depth that you can get away with playing and perhaps still beat good teams and then there's depth that can come in and help you beat good teams when you've got injuries, foul trouble, or just bad days from one of your starters. I feel good about our rotation but I wouldn't mind having another player or two that we could go to if needed. We've already lost Spike for an undetermined period of time but fortunately Carsen has played really well as a point guard when needed (and Mathias as well).

I feel like when this roster is at full health (excluding Jacquil Taylor for the moment since he may be down for the year and is relatively unproven anyway) we have 9 players that have the potential to help us win against decent teams. Wouldn't mind having one more rotation player in the front court though.