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He is a potential NT player at this point but I'm not fully convinced so I am thinking of having fun and training him the way I want him. Please share your thoughts/recommendations. Here are some ideas I already have in mind:

A. focus on his strengths - JS/OD/DR
B. train him in everything in the hopes he will become well-rounded overall
C. make him a shooter and perimeter defender - JS/JR/OD
D. train him into an inside threat using the guards as secondary skills - IS/ID/R

I am very interested in all your ideas people so share!!! Take care and be safe!!!

Here are his current skills"

Age: 18
Height: 6'5" / 196 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: proficient

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

Experience: atrocious

I'd advise you to get his inside work out of the way now while you're in D.V and it won't be a problem if you promote. But only after you've gotten his OD to at least Prominent. His HA, PA and ID are all very poor too so this will be a challenge.

Did you want him to be an all around scoring SG or SF?

I would love for him to be a SF but he seems more suited as a pure shooter and defender due to the fact that those guard skills are terribly low. I'm thinking Reggie Miller with better Defense.

IMO you should make him a outside focused SF. First of all train od and jr to 70% of your target level, as he is quite long so he'll take time to get pops in these two, if trained later.

I gave you a +1 for your team name,lol

Well all of this is up to you. Just know that if he will be a SF for you then you will need his Inside skills done this season or else it'll hurt you in the long run as Manon already said. Definitely get his IS/ID/REB done now.

I'll say Strong (8) to Proficient (9) will be more than enough on ID for your SG. If I had your SG, I'd also work his IS to Prominent (10) since he's at MVP potential. But this is just me. He will definitely tear things up with those stats.

Sell him.

He might be worth as much as the rest of your team combined, so the cash will help you a lot more than he will in both the short term and long term (expanding arena and winning are good long term). I could be wrong about his value cause it's hard for me to gauge just how much people will massively overpay for potential. But regardless, he needs inside training as the consensus here shows and I totally agree with, and you already have other guard trainees. It would be a pain for you to rejigger your whole team for inside training especially since all these players are playing and would need to be replaced; much easier to just sell and move on.

Edit: also his MVP potential is totally worthless to you if you keep him but makes him sell for a lot more. For your purposes this player would be more useful with allstar potential and slighty higher skills, and you could sell this player and buy one of those and still make a profit.

Last edited by w_alloy at 9/11/2012 2:53:33 AM

I can certainly see many of the points you're making here, but really the original poster needs to consider that this might be the best draftee he'll ever get in his entire Buzzerbeater career. Maybe he'll regret selling, and not training, and missing a chance to craft a home drafted player him into the cornerstone of his team. Maybe he'll regret not selling, and pocketing the cash, using it to buy players and work up divisions as fast as possible. But the fact that many teams never get a draftee this good should be recognized.

As far as training goes, it's actually easiest to get it going in low divisions, and easy to do secondary training. With all the bots, setting this guy at center and training IS/ID isn't a big deal. That gets more and more difficult as you progress in divisions. I'm currently training my PG in inside skills, and a SF, so I know the difficulty of balancing training and staying in a league. But devoting training time to significant secondary improvement is one way to a competitive advantage over your league mates.

In terms of his specific skills, I wouldn't worry too much about the low HA and PA. Those train very fast, and can be fixed this season.

Again for Mr. 495, you have to decide whether you want to sell or train. Then, if you want to train, decide if you want to take the long view, and go for a real SF (which will require a lot of out of position training), or a guard with some good IS (less out of position training here, but I'd still recommend some).