Balanced classes also have experience. If you have 3/3/3/3, you always 6 players in the junior/senior class. And the 13th player can go wherever so sometimes you'd have 7 in the junior/senior class.
Ideal in my mind looks something like this:
Fr: PG, Wing, Post
So: Combo Guard, Wing, Post
Jr: PG, Wing, Post
Sr: Combo Guard, Wing, Post
And then 13th scholarship is just best available or held open for late transfers.
So you have 4 post players and always have 2 upperclassmen who can start, unless you get an underclassman who outplays them. You always have 2 point guards, but you also have 2 combo guards who can be emergency ball handlers or serve as the backup until the freshman PG is ready for major minutes. And with the combo guards you have 6 wings for SG/SF, and enough to play small if talent dictates that you want to go with just one post player.
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