St. John’s struggled with various obstacles last season, but perhaps no obstacle was bigger than their lack of depth.
Often playing with just a six man rotation (with Kassoum Yakwe and Amar Alibegovic buried on the pine and a couple of walk-ons in case of emergency), foul trouble was nothing to flirt with. In some games, it cost them directly as guys fouled out. In other games, it still cost them, even without the foul trouble.
“You don’t really think about it,” Marvin Clark said about fatigue during the games, “but I’d be lying to you if I told you I didn’t feel it.