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Anyone who goes into the season expecting to play all their starters 35 to 40 minutes should put the pipe down.It's just idiotic to expect that they'll make it through an 82 game like that.
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No, but there's hardly any team that'll be able to do it for 82 games...lots of teams had a crap record last year almost solely due to injury. For 70-75 games you can assume at least 4 will make it though. Felton last year averaged 36 over 78, JRich in his last full year went 38 minutes for 75 games, Crash went 37 for 71 (and that was with a separated shoulder) and Mek went 67 at 34 minutes.
If we win a little over half of our games when we're healthy (unless we're going to get on a tangent about how none of the starters belong in the NBA either?) and about a 1/3 if someone goes down for a stretch we're STILL pushing for .500 and a shot at 8th seed.
For a 4th year team that's awesome.