Regarding out Tourney rotations...

You said "Look no further than our recent tourney rotations. The only time the main players came out was if they got ahead of the "foul schedule", eg 2 fouls in the first quarters, etc. They also came out in garbage time.A typical rotation that we ran was to keep the four main starters on the bench, and then substitute DeWolfe and KK at the last spot."

Who were we going to substitute in at that point? Our healthy players were Hidalgo, DeWolfe, Citron, Westbeld, Marshall, Bransford, Cernugal, and Obinmna.

The only option besides what you mentioned was to throw in either Cernugal or Obinma. Obinma was very foul prone and towards the end of the season seemed almost like she had some injury that kept her out.

Actually, I would have preferred Obinma to absorb fouls..

Maddy got three fouls in the first half and in the second half her defense became very soft..

Which only proves the point that we need players from TP

Your facts only prove the point that we need more players unless you go on the assumption there will be no injuries. I would much rather have ten quality players and figure out the minutes to keep them fresh and happy rather than the situation last NCAA tournament where our starting 5 could play with any other team including South Carolina but........... we had to play them basically the entire game. HH, MW, and SC played all 40 minutes most, not all, but most of the last nine games.

I'm not saying we don't need some depth

This is mainly true at the 4 and 5 spots. We definitely need some depth there.

He was suggesting that the substitution was "typical" of Ivey when it was more of a case that we lacked depth (much of which is coming back from injury) due to an unusually high number of injuries. Having 4-5 players injured at the same time is not the norm, but it seems like everyone is acting like it is.

Keep in mind that many teams (and I'm including NC level teams, excluding South Carolina) often only go 7-8 players deep in most Tournament games (Iowa only played 7 more than 20 seconds, and 6 more than 10 minutes in the NC Game. LSU only played 6 players more than 3 minutes (7 players total)).

Wrote something similar at about the same time

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You said it better than me with less snark.
Thanks for posting yet another reminder that this year was NOT normal.

Good Post I don't know where people get the idea that

teams play 10 deep UCONN is another when they were winning everything never went deep

True for the most part: Most teams don't have quality depth

When there is a significant drop off, that is where the minutes end. I always liked playing eight and found it difficult to play the remaining players. (Although in AAU I often played to squads of five.)