Minutes played

[jasonpeoria911]

With the past few games, i'm wondering how in the world Bradley is going to be able to play 3 games in 3 days or possibly even 4 games in 4 days in STL? Our starters barely get 5 minutes of rest a game except for Salley with around 20 minutes a game and Singh/Austin getting about 10 minutes. That pretty much leaves SM to rotate around for about 20 minutes a game. 3 bench players, thats not going to cut it if this time wants to be fresh enough to win the championship or even win on back to back days. Both ISU, SIU and Drake go 5-6 deep from the bench every game. This team can beat any team on proper rest but don't have as much confidence in winning when the other team has the leisure of resting its starters more for the turnaround game. That could ultimately be the killer in the tourney.

Jason

[audacious_aficionado]

if you're gonna pick the winner of the mvc tourney by roster depth, you've gotta go with creighton. they have about a 12 guy rotation with nobody playing as much as 25 minutes! they are easily the deepest team in the valley. if i weren't such a die-hard for bradley, i think i'd put my money on them to win it all.

http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/teams/stats?teamId=156

[bu fan 9]

I don't put much in to minutes because practice is a lot harder than games.

[houstontxbrave]

I think minutes were a lot more important back before there was a time out every 4 minutes. If you have 8 guys who can play you have a chance.

[ph]

With the past few games, i'm wondering how in the world Bradley is going to be able to play 3 games in 3 days or possibly even 4 games in 4 days in STL? Our starters barely get 5 minutes of rest a game except for Salley with around 20 minutes a game and Singh/Austin getting about 10 minutes. That pretty much leaves SM to rotate around for about 20 minutes a game.

Sounds like you are talking about pre-Ruff injury (sub DC for RA)...
Where did Sam M go?

A fully share your minutes concern, too