I've been saying it forever. All this resting players when they are not actually injured is bull . Play if you're healthy, sit if you're injured (not "hurt"). All this stopping starting for the body is the worst thing you can do. It never finds its rhythm and builds the tolerance to getting hurt. Besides, if you're gonna get injured, you're gonna get injured, nothing you can do about it. Case and point being Manu breaking his elbow on the last day of the season.
Pop over manages these guys...too many minutes, you don't know the system, changes lineups every night, you missed a rotation so you sit for 5 games (unless you're Bonner). He's gone from genius to mad scientist.
Phil never sat guys unless they were injured, and his teams were always healthy (Fat Shaq doesn't count because that was his own doing). He maybe sat a guy for a game or two at the end of the regular sesaon, but that was it. This is one thing Kobe learned....play through it. Sure he embellishes his injuries, but dude is super durable.