Why not just let them play for as long as they can and then adjust to missing that player when they foul out with 5 fouls?
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It depends on when it happens. Usually to avoid them picking up more fouls. If they have 3-4 fouls, the offense will attack them to either draw more fouls on that player or an easy bucket because they can’t defend as aggressively
They’d rather have them available for a tight game in last few minutes. Hope the others can keep game close and let Star close it out than have Star keep them in front for rest of team to blow with no hope of star saving the day.
You want your best players available for the end of the game. You take a guy out if he has too many fouls for that point of the game so that by the end you can be at full strength
To save them for the most important part of the game, the end. People often joke that only the last 5 minutes of a basketball game matter.
There is a high probability they will get targeted on defense and foul out. You want your best players to be able to finish the game to give your team the best chance of winning.
To tack on to what has already said about keeping them available until the end of the game when they might be needed, the other reason you pull players in early foul trouble is that they become targets on the floor. The player in foul trouble will often not be as aggressive on defense and do all they can to avoid racking up more fouls, making them less effective defensively. The opposing team knows this and will drive through that player to try to score more easily or just to bait them to commit more fouls so they end up being removed from the game.
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