This is *not* football. You dont have ‘strings’ you have your starters and a bench (in this case a bench of three people). The bench plays *every* game because you cant play more than 10-20 minutes of basketball without having to catch your breath..
Technically speaking, what you said is false - you have "strings" in basketball just like you have in any other team sport [and even in many individual sports, like high school & college tennis].
However, as I indicated above, having learned that there were only 8 players on the team [5 starters + 3 subs], and having read the coach's statement [e.g. he pulled the full-court press after only 3 minutes, etc], if I had the chance, I would go back and delete most of my comments from this thread.
When I first started commenting on this thread, I was under the assumption that it involved a team with a full complement of 12 to 15 players, and that the coach had continued the full court press and the launching of the treys deep into the second half.
But apparently this was an absolutely bizarre scenario, involving two tiny little schools in an obscure intermural match-up which never should have gotten any national publicity.