Well than a big percentage of starters all across the country are being misused by their coaches because many play more than 30 minutes. Seems like your standard is not anywhere close to universal, to the contrary. Nobody was discussing injuries and there are none that we know about so I have no comment on that except of course players should not play if an injury they carry could be a long term problem.
You do realize you are sort of blaming Jones by saying she gets exhausted playing minutes that many other players play without getting exhausted? If she is "exhausted" in the 4th quarter of games, maybe she is not in the best basketball shape (I am NOT saying this but it follows from you saying she is so tired she can't shoot late in games. I also don't think it is true - she's had plenty of games where she played great late in games). I don't find it credible that UCLA players were able to hit long twos and threes late in the game on their third game in three days yet our poor players were so worn out they couldn't cope. You keep moving the goalposts so I am done with this conversation.
You do realize you are sort of blaming Jones by saying she gets exhausted playing minutes that many other players play without getting exhausted? If she is "exhausted" in the 4th quarter of games, maybe she is not in the best basketball shape (I am NOT saying this but it follows from you saying she is so tired she can't shoot late in games. I also don't think it is true - she's had plenty of games where she played great late in games). I don't find it credible that UCLA players were able to hit long twos and threes late in the game on their third game in three days yet our poor players were so worn out they couldn't cope. You keep moving the goalposts so I am done with this conversation.