LCD - coach will put whoever he feels is best for a position there, even if not listed as a preference in your depth chart.
Not sure about that.
I've never seen a USA NT player make the court if he wasn't listed to play, and the Reserves get garbage time if any at all.
I'm not dismissing that statement, though. I can't say for certain it doesn't happen at all.
I strongly feel he is right.
I changed from let coach decide (what I always played succesfully and with good result) to coach picks from chart when I started training inside defense.
the reason was that I put 3 centers on the field in order to get them all trained, and my coach took my SG and put him on the court for the SF. I decided that he did this because he felt my SG should play on the SF position, which seems the only logical explaination to me. Both Centers I had put on the roster for SF where not in fould trouble, nor injured, still they where replaced by my SG.
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