Not sure how Laura can say that. Is the 9th guy off the bench going to play a lot in our biggest games? No, probably not. IMO, however, it's wildly premature to be presuming a tight 8 man rotation for most of the season (even when talking about K).
First, while K's traditionally limited the rotation to about 8 guys one we get late into the year, it's been quite a long time since he's had 9th or 10th men on the roster who are as good as the 9th and 10th men here (if ever). Back in the late 90s, K's most talented squads did play about 9 guys. While it would be a bit unusual in view of recent history, I don't think it's a foregone conclusion that the 9th guy, for instance, wouldn't at least get some minutes in certain situations.
Second, if this team is as good as it should be, there are going to be a lot of blowouts. That alone will likely lead to playing time.
Third, Giles is coming off a major knee injury. While the expectation is that he'll be able to start on Day 1, I wouldn't be surprised at all if the team brings him back slowly and limits his minutes during the first half of next season. The Bucks, for instance, limited Jabari to about 20 or 25 minutes until February of this season. As good as Giles will likely be, I strongly doubt that he will be playing more than 25 or so minutes until the 2nd half of conference season.
Fourth, this conversation about the rotation presumes that we not only remain perfectly healthy throughout the season, but avoid any off the court issues as well. As we've seen in recent years, that's an extremely risk proposition. If you go back over the last few years, in 2010-11 we lost Kyrie for most of the season, in 2012-13 Ryan Kelly missed most of the ACC schedule and Seth Curry was never fully health, in 2014-15 Rasheed Sulaimon was dismissed, and in 2015-16 we obviously lost Amile. And that doesn't even mention what happened when Ryan Kelly was knocked out of the postseason in 11-12. While we'd ideally love to have everyone remain healthy from start to finish, reality is that we've been forced to replace key rotation players in 4 of our last 6 season. IMO, we should all be careful about predicting guys will be buried on the bench when we have no idea how guys will perform and how the season will play out -- particularly when one of the key figures will be a 18 yr. old freshman coming off two torn ACLs.
, I do think it will be tough sledding even with a deep roster for some to get minutes (barring injury). Even with Jeter, assuming he's back, I suspect he'll be at about the same minutes or less down the stretch. He will have to up his game to compete. 
