Who will get the short end of the stick?

Steve Shields cannot afford to be generous this season. He cannot build for the future, because if this is not a very good year, he probably is out of futures at Little Rock. So he has to try to keep his best team on the court as much of the time as possible. The last two years we have played a lot of players a lot of minutes. Some of that was due to injuries, but a lot of it was just because Shields was playing guys who under normal circumstances would not have been getting that much time - building for the future. Everything points to the conclusion that he absolutely cannot do that this year. He has to win, and win big, so the players on the floor have to be players who are producing NOW. So . . . someone on the team is going to get the short end of the stick. Someone will not be playing as much as he might have hoped. If Shields does not keep the rotation pretty tight this season he is very foolish.