Expectations with LeVert

Fatigue definitely played a factor in those games, especially with Spike. The kid could barely walk in the tunnel after most games. Obviously there were other issues with personnel, but I don't know how you can't say fatigue didn't play a factor in some of those late game situations.

Very easy - if Caris and Derrick played the identical amount of minutes within the identical game, we would have been in better position to win. Bottom line, maintain the same scenario and just swap players, and you most likely have different results. This cannot be hard to comprehend, you can talk about whatever else you want, reality is we simply didn’t have the available talent irrelevant of fatigue.

Are you serious with the bold? This is a ridiculous level of spin, even for you. Not a single person is saying that LeVert and Walton don’t put us in a better position to win than Spike. We are saying that fatigue, due to lack of depth, was a contributing (note: not only or main) factor to in some results last season.

IMO, anyone who denies the fatigue factor in basketball, has never played the game. If it doesn’t exist, why doesn’t every team play their starters all 40 minutes. Thus, if you have a team with depth, that is an advantage.

I don’t anyone thinks fatigue was the difference between us competing for the Big 10 title or making a deep tourney run. But to say it wasn’t the difference between a few more wins for us last year or not is ridiculous. We were competitive in most games (not all) down the stretch and tired legs and fatigue definitely didn’t help us.