Eli5: Why do basketball coaches pull their best players when they have 3 or 4 fouls?

Question

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?

In: Other

Answer 1

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