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I recently bought this SF. He is 20 years old, with superstar potential. His height is 6'5"

Jump Shot: prolific Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: average Handling: mediocre
Driving: prolific Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: strong Inside Def.: strong
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: awful
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: atrocious

My plan is to get his jump range up to at least average this season, and then outside defence, passing and rebounding up to strong. In the following two seasons my plan is to train his inside shot, inside defence, rebounding and jump range, maybe with a bit of rebounding. I plan to do this by rotating him around the team in different positions, in order to get single position training. i.e. play him as a c when training inside shot, then as pg when training passing. etc.
After that, i hope he will be good enough to start at sg, and then will focus on one on one and jump shot.

I was just wondering if anybody thinks this is a good idea, or whether anyone has any other ideas for a training regime. My only issue with this player is his jump range, as I believe jump range is one of the more time consuming things to train.
I guess the only other question is: is it worth investing all this training in this player, or will it be too difficult (or impossible) to get him to a high level?

Thanks for any response.

I would definitely consider his OD more of a weakness than his JR. With his high Driving and JS, he'll still find ways to score, and if he's outmatched offensively, he can still pass the rock. But against good outside SFs, he'll admit more points than he'd be able to make.

I would consider training single-position training him in OD, JR and Passing in the following way (together with two more guard trainees):

Pressure
JR
Pressure
Passing

rinse and repeat - until his OD is prolific. If his Passing gets better than you expect it to be, train more Pressure instead. That might take two seasons. After that, switch to Big Man training and train him in Rebounds, IS and ID as long as you like.

He's not the greatest SF trainee ever, but he ertainly does have potential if you stick to him. He might become a nice outside focused SF.

You might consider training him to be a well-rounded SG, too. For that, do not train his IS, ID and Rebounding further, but focus instead on the above outside training plan until all three skills reach at least marvelous. He'll find myriad ways to score, and ould still hold his own on the SF spot, in particular since his ID would reach proficient this way, and he'd be almost unstoppable on the outside.

Last edited by Mathcorejay at 1/29/2011 6:47:46 PM

The first thing I would do is train his OD to 11 or 12. then I would do handeling and driving next season, and JR and JS a whole season after that.

you can train him till he's 24,25 if you want to create a great player for a div 1 team.

train his JR and OD this season,JR till 8 is enough and OD 12 is good so next season you do OD and Passing(9 or 10 is good)

then you can put all inside skills at 10 and after that just train JS and DR to create a great offensive power,he'll be a good outside SF better than most SF even in first divisions

Thanks for all the replies. I think I will focus a lot more on OD than I had planned, and maybe a bit less on JR.

I hope to get him to this level in around 5 seasons.

Jump Shot: marvelous Jump Range: strong
Outside Def.: sensational Handling: strong
Driving: tremendous Passing: proficient
Inside Shot: sensational Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: proficient Shot Blocking: awful

After two seasons of OD, JR and PA I will evaluate how likely and realistic it is to make a great SF, and if it's looking unlikely, I will then focus exclusively on his outside skills.
Either way, I hope he will be a great player for me by the time he's 25.

this is what I would do, though it is just a suggestion.

primarily, he is liability of defense right now, which makes training outside skills difficult.

so... if it were me, I would probably...

1) train rebounding to strong, ID to proficient, and IS to proficient (in this sequence so that you benefit from the secondary training)
2) why? - now you can play him at PF on defense rest of the way or at SF when using a 3-2.
3) train jump range to mediocre, while playing him at PF on D
4) train passing to proficient
5) why? now you can play him at PG on offense, and at PF on defense
6) train OD all the way to sensational
7) train JR all the way to proficient

and 8) train FT as soon as possible.

good luck whatever you do! :-)

Just an update if anybody is interested!

Jump Shot: sensational Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: prominent Handling: average
Driving: prolific Passing: strong
Inside Shot: strong Inside Def.: proficient
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: awful
Stamina: average Free Throw: pitiful

Currently I am training Outside Defence every week. How far do you think I should go? I was thinking tremendous or maybe even wondrous. After that I will train JR up to strong, IS and ID to prominent and then a bit of one on one and JS for forwards. Does anybody have any suggestions for a better plan?

Sorry, size and potential? Age?

He's now 21, 6'5" and superstar potential.