There are other effects on the team by not playing bench players than their not developing like they could with some game experience. After the loss in the conference tournament at Little Rock Courtney Walker's jr. year a player's dad told me that "C Walk is wore out, hates basketball, and wants the season over". Last Dec at OKC before the game against OU, Courtney's mother said "Courtney is very sick'. After the game I told her mother that Courtney did not play like she was sick, but Coach Blair did rest her a little. Her mother said "he usually doesn't" and sounded very bitter. As mentioned in an earlier post, Coach Blair does run certain players in the ground.
Back to bench players, at the conference tournament Skyler Collins freshman year, her mother asked me "do you have any idea of how it makes you feel to work your butt off in practice and never get in a game, especially when you have never sit on the bench before?" Skyler Collins was the poster child for neglected bench;players, the few times she got in a game she tried so hard she would make a mistake and instead of being left in to settle down was jerked back to the bench. Realize this is ancient history,but shows s mentioned earlier, Coach Blair has a long history of not developing and using bench players,
I think Coach Blair is a good to great coach with a blind spot to bench players.