Over the course of the season, maybe even over the course of a week, that will certainly happen, Adelman says. But the second-year coach prefers not to play more than a 10-man rotation in a 24-minute half, essentially because jamming an 11th man into his sub pattern throws off the rhythm of how he rotates his starters. “It gets really junky,” he explained. “When you get to 11, there’s gotta be a reason for it. It does happen if you have minute restrictions on people — you can get away with it. But nobody flows well with 11. Even teams that play 11, it usually isn’t all in the first half. … It’s tough on the guys, man. Starters, they don’t want to come out, and they also don’t want to sit there for an hour before they go back in. So you’re protecting them in two different ways. It’s not just (lowering) the minutes. It’s how long do they sit? … So it’s an equation we go through every year. It’s one of the hardest things that people don’t realize, is how to do that properly and have a good flow to your team nightly.”
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