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1) Since it was garbage time, your coach emptied the bench and played backups for the whole 4th qurter. To ensure that your player gets all 48 minutes, he will have to be set as starter/backup/reserve.

2)

Low Post: inside focus, somewhat decreased pace.

Maybe your players were waiting until the end of the shot clock and could not find a good enough shot, so they may have jacked up an end-of-the-shot-clock 3 pointer.

3) I think they are in this order: OD/ID/SB.

Your guys only took 5 three pointers, which is really good for an inside offense. This shows that they were able to penetrate and get shots close to the basket very easily. Only 5 three point attempts taken out of 86 shots is awesome on BB. I don't think you could ask for anything more.

Last edited by Big Dogs at 7/10/2012 4:15:41 PM

1) Since it was garbage time, your coach emptied the bench and played backups for the whole 4th qurter. To ensure that your player gets all 48 minutes, he will have to be set as starter/backup/reserve.

More to the point, the things you'll need to do to get a single player the maximum opportunity to play 48 minutes as a PG:

1. List the trainee as starter, backup and reserve PG
2. Have no more than 8 other players, each of which should either be the starter or backup+reserve at another position.

E.g.
1-1-1
2-6-6
3-7-7
4-8-8
5-9-9

If there are any players not on the lineup but on your bench, they will come in if there is garbage time. You may well be able to get it to work with a player as only the reserve at a position (2-2-6) but I can't personally confirm that and I do know that the lineup above works as well as possible. It still isn't perfect - if one of your non-trainees is shooting FTs when the coach calls for garbage time, his backup will come in for your trainee for a short time. In addition, sometimes the coach just decides that your guy needs to come out. It sucks, but it's not entirely common at least.

The problem with shot distribution can be attributed to experience. Low experienced players won't make the best decision and might shoot instead of dishing off to the big. Also good defense can force your team to take awkward shots. Maybe your guards were high before the game, the possibilities are endless.

The problem with shot distribution can be attributed to experience. Low experienced players won't make the best decision and might shoot instead of dishing off to the big. Also good defense can force your team to take awkward shots. Maybe your guards were high before the game, the possibilities are endless.

But the problem is not the quality of shots. If you check FG percentage, quality of the shots were good, and also nearly all of them were 2 pt shots - most of them are from paint. The problem is; why did my small guys took those high quality shots, but not my tall guys ?

In any tactic, if the quality of a shot is above a certain threshold, the player will take it. The tactic selected will adjust the required quality - a SG may fire up a relatively lower quality three when in a Run and Gun, while passing it up when possible in a Look Inside. Guards often in inside offenses will cut to the basket, and a good pass from the big man may lead to a fairly high-percentage driving shot. In theory, a guard with good inside shooting skills may even post up a less-capable defender, and I think I've seen anecdotal evidence to that effect but wouldn't claim it to be anything more than a theory.

In any case, the tactics tell the players how to move about the court and where to move the ball, but they'll still make decisions based on their likely percentage to hit a shot vs. the likelihood of completing a pass or drive. And occasionally, you'll have guys that just like to shoot contested long-range 2 pointers even though they never make them because you dared to question the match engine. ;)