Kevin CaseyComing off the bench has made Garcia more efficient.Common wisdom would seem to dictate that, when you’ve got an independent, low-major team playing its first full Division 1 schedule in 30 years, and when you’ve got a prospective first-round NBA draft pick playing on that team, you’d be likely to leave that individual on the floor for as many minutes as he can handle.But in his team’s last two games, Seattle U coach Cameron Dollar has shunned common wisdom, and the results have thus far been fantastic–both for the Redhawks and for their SW cover-boy stud, Chuck Garcia.Garcia came off the bench a couple times earlier this year when he was battling back spasms. But in blowout victories against Sacaremento State and UC Davis (98-67 and 81-56, respectively), a healthy Garcia has been the third man off the bench for SU, as Dollar has opted to start a three-guard lineup in order to facilitate “more pressing,” according to a Redhawk spokesperson (Dollar did not return a call seeking comment).The SU rep also said that Garcia is fine with coming off the bench. This is something teams tend to transmit even when a player’s less than fine about such a dramatic role switch, but the way Garcia’s played in the past two games lends the claim considerable credibility. He had 12 points (5-7 shooting) and 9 rebounds in 23 minutes against Sacramento State, and turned in an even more efficient 17 point, 10 rebound effort in just 18 minutes against Cal-Davis. What’s more, Alex Jones, the team’s leading scorer in each of those games, also came off the bench, posting career highs of 24 points and 9 rebounds in just 19 minutes at the Key last night, earning a standing ovation from a robust–for the Redhawks, anyway–crowd that included Sonic legend Lenny Wilkens and news anchor-cum-county exec candidate Susan Hutchison (as well as a woman, seated courtside, who looked a lot like Rosie Perez).In last week’s cover story, we remarked that Dollar’s style of play was reminiscent of the University of Arkansas’ “40 Minutes of Hell,” a scheme Dollar helped unravel as a player in 1995 when he led the UCLA Bruins to an NCAA championship at the Kingdome over Nolan Richardson’s Razorbacks. But in analyzing his substitution patterns, another comparison emerges. Dollar is prone to sending rested charges to the scorer’s table every two minutes or so; when Dollar sent four subs to check in during SU’s blowout loss to UW, the Husky P.A. announcer quipped, in hockey-speak, that SU was inserting a shift change rather than announcing each new player by name. Whereas on most teams, shuttling players in and out would seem to disrupt continuity, the Redhawks–whose style of play could never, in fairness, be described as pretty–seem to fit together like Legos, regardless of who’s in the game. Hence, it doesn’t much matter who starts.So who’s Dollar remind us of now? Creighton’s Dana Altman, the only other coach in college basketball whose substitution patterns are so frantic and unorthodox (for basketball, anyway). And Altman’s Bluejays, a top mid-major from Nebraska, make the NCAA tourney about every other year.