[Potential has nothing to do with current ability or how the player performs. In BB, it is only relevant to training.
Perhaps I'm not making myself clear, because in other posts it seems you agree with me in point, but got caught up with the BB term 'role player'. I use that term because it has a real meaning and I hope BB would use it in the same vein.
The idea of a role player is nothing new in basketball or any other sport which permits substitutions when confronted with specific situations: tough defense, an outside threat, rebounding, while knowing full well that they will be losing out in (many) other areas due to the one dimensional nature of the player. This is a 'role player' as opposed to a starter. I reference the that since BB uses the term they must understand the nature. A bench is either considered to be deep, which means it have many talented players who could either be starting on other teams or at least 'good enough' to fill all the needs of a position, OR a team's bench may have role players. Those who come in for the above reasons to a specific job -- including burn minutes are role players. LIKE in BB's training we don't expect role players toe ver be (consistent) starters, but they can fill the need at the time reasonably well.
NO COACH would play these types of players for an extended time (barring injuries) if the coach wanted to keep his job. The idea that a poor bench needlessly plays so much is poorly conceived, and that is what I mean. BB's intent for training becomes secondary to the notion of a coach breaking fundamental ideas of who-to-play-and-when for the sake of... I'm not sure what.
Last edited by Coros at 6/20/2008 10:09:22 AM