Next year will tell

I am not surprised that we did not run off a lot of players this past year. Shields had a young team and thus had the luxury of playing a lot of people to see what they could do. Next year the pressure will be higher, however, and so he is going to have to keep his better players on the court a lot more of the time, so I expect the minutes/game of the top five to go up considerably. That could mean that we will lose some of those who end up on the short end.