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Hi all,
in the latest two seasons, I've always relied heavily on group demonstration for my scouting, because I had very few scouting points to spend (low pick expected) and I felt this is a very cost-effective option (e.g., five 5-ball and seven 4-ball prospects last season for just 10 points!).

Now, I'm quite sure that I've already read comments like: ok, but a 5-ball guy from the bottom of the unscouted list will hardly, if ever, be as good as a 5-ball guy from the top.
As a matter of fact, this season I've already interviewed four 5-ball prospects from the top 9 of the list and I can safely say that they're all better than anyone I interviewed in season 14 and 15.

So, I'm a bit undecided now on what to do next: will it be more effective to go for GD again, or should I look for more high rating guys from players 10-19 (the ones with 4 gray balls in the unscouted list)? By the end of the season, I should have about 18 more points, so I may scout them all and then interview up to 4 of them.

Is there any consensus on the matter, or any idea on how many 5-ball rating players I can expect from this pool?

Thank you.

I guess the 5balls before scouted would be the one-and-done players, like Durant, Griffin and the 1-2balls before scouted would be the late boomers, like Westbrook and Michael Redd

i think id like to get Durant instead of westbrook :P but thats just me

yep, me too, but you can´t argue that both players has extremelly value. Durant was always thought as the next superstar, while Westbrook had some doubts if he could play at a high level in the NBA, if he had the skills to play as a PG

I'd rather say those late bloomers are players with 3 ball scouting value and 4 or 5 ball potential ;)

the prescouting numbers are basically word on the street - which might no mean much, if a good player plays backup for a better one in college, he might be totally off the radar (think Eric Bledsoe or Landry Fields this season... those would be 1-2 prescouting ball players with some nice skillset after scouting)

Of course the scouts could be totally wrong
and you get
Adam Morrison!!!

well, that was a case of too little scouting perhaps ;)

addam was acculy good its just that he played no minutes for the lakers( he was in a tux during game 7 of the finals and when the team celebrated he just left the game)

You're kidding, right?
He was the 3rd overall pick in 2006 and doesn't have a job now
Rajon Rondo,Rudy Gay,Brandon Roy, Paul Milsap amongst those chosen behind him
although most of the others were better too