reading the last two night how were not playing our bench enough and overplaying our bench. I think people are getting a bit picky here. For one the bench is playing aside the starters to find out combo's that work well and which don't. So for the most part the 4th quarter has been 2 starters and 3 bench players. I got curious after the game and looked at our starters minutes for the last 4 games

avg seasnon avg
Prince 31 29 27 27 28.5 36.4 down 8 mins
Ben 31 33 35 34 33.3 36.5 down 3 mins
Sheed 29 41 26 33 32.3 34.9 down 2.5 mins
Rip 34 36 26 32 32.0 36.8 down 4.8 mins
Billups 33 44 32 32 35.3 35.8 down .5 mins (though the 44 min game killed his average)

If the bench continues to look good i think we can all live with starters averaging in the 32-33 min range.

And who says the draft was a bust 3 years ago..... Delfino was drafted in the same draft Darko was...