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

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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

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