Why March becomes a trust test disguised as a substitution chart
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With that caveat, the articleâs core idea is pretty clear from the headline. It is about the hidden value of rotations in March, the quiet math that decides which teams still look like themselves once the game reaches minute thirty five. The likely focus is not just on how many players a team uses, but on which combinations can survive foul trouble, pressure possessions, and the physical drop that hits late in tournament games.
In that sense, the âhidden economyâ is trust. Coaches shorten the circle. Bench players become valuable not because they score twenty, but because they let the team keep its identity when the starters sit. A strong March rotation is less about depth for its own sake and more about preserving rebounding, defensive shape, ball security, and tempo. The article almost certainly lives in that space, where substitutions stop being bookkeeping and start becoming a statement about who a coach really trusts when the season is one bad stretch from ending.
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