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Wyoming has a staggering\u00a0five players in the top 15 in terms of percent of minutes played in Mountain West conference games so far this season. Each Mountain West member school is represented on the list with only Nevada and Colorado State\u00a0have more than one player with two players each.\u00a0 The added minutes Washington, Gilmore, Nance,\u00a0Adams and\u00a0Grabau\u00a0are having to soak up are starting to have an impact on their defense and shooting. Shyatt\u00a0may have to start giving more minutes to players such as\u00a0Haldorson\u00a0and McManamen even though he feels they are not ready for this level, in order to keep the starters a little fresher through the last half of conference play.<\/p>\n
This is not ideal of course and is by no means Shyatt’s\u00a0fault as he is only in year two of a major rebuilding project. It is his solid coaching so far that has helped Wyoming get to where they are but the lack of depth is starting to wear on the team. With New Mexico tonight and Colorado State at the weekend Wyoming needs to figure out a balance in the rotation quickly to avoid starting a disastrous 2-6 in conference play.<\/p>\n
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Wyoming is off to a 2-4 start in Mountain West play after the indefinite\u00a0suspension of G\/F Luke Martinez. Even before Martinez had trouble with the law Wyoming had a very short bench with just\u00a0eight players\u00a0receiving significant minutes. With Martinez out of the picture Shyatt hasn’t brought anyone else in to the rotation and the remaining\u00a0seven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[370,436,438,437,96,172,221,435,151],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wyoblog","tag-advanced-stats","tag-arrest","tag-bench","tag-lack-of-depth","tag-larry-shyatt","tag-luke-martinez","tag-stats","tag-tired-starters","tag-wyoming-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wyonation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}