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I'd certainly like to see where my 18 year old ranks among the players taken in last season's draft.

Bill should be right up there at number one. I dearly hope that you are single positioning him as he is one of the best rookies I've seen.

If your not please BB-Mail me.

What u think about this player;




Weekly salary: $ 6 909

DMI: 44600
Age: 19
Height: 6'1" / 185 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: proficient Jump Range: prominent
Outside Def.: prominent ↑ Handling: prominent
Driving: proficient Passing: average
Inside Shot: atrocious Inside Def.: atrocious
Rebounding: pitiful Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: atrocious

Experience: pitiful

Last edited by aimar at 2/26/2010 6:50:45 AM

He looks very nice. Very well rounded. I'd say for him to have a good shot at making the U21 you should concentrate primarily on JS and OD next year. My PG was about the same level 1 higher in JS and OD, 2 Higher in PA. As I made a PG I would advise you to make him into a SG and slowly get his passing to 8. I would also try to train single position more efficiently playing him 48 minutes at the training position once a week. Great job so far!

He also needs a lot of FT remedial work. To me, I'd think he should have at least 4 or 5 FT, especially if he winds up going point guard.

Higher FT on him would be nicer, but at this point with his skill set if he wants a chance at making the U21 he needs to not waste weeks training FT or Stamina

"Very well rounded" Am I nuts? I would find a lot of descriptive phrases before I used that phrase to describe a player who had several atrocious ratings.

The atrocious ratings are not something he can control. With his height would you bother training the inside skills? No its a waste. Out of the skills he can control he has trained them balanced which will help his training, Minus Pa which is probably where it started and will catch up down the round. By saying well rounded I was referencing that he has not overlooked or over trained any of the key guard skills at such a young age.

I have to say that I feel a little disengaged from the u21 team and the process of training an u21 player.

For those of you who know me from that "other" online game HT, you'll know that I'm a huge fan of the u20 and the process of making sure that the right talent get into the right trainer's hands. Over here, I feel like there is too much ambiguity as to what it takes to take a hot prospect draftee and turn him into an u21 calibre player.

I've had two draftees that, looking back, could have been u21 type players. Unfortunately, I didn't know what made skills they needed to be the right type of player nor did I receive appropriate guidance.

In HT, it is a simple equation. Take a mainskill guy and train him in nothing but that 1 skill until he's an u21 player. Over here, there are many more skills that influence a coach's decision. I'd argue that your normal user doesn't know which skills are valued for which position and which ones are the most important to train.

Is there an opportunity, as we head into the offseason to get the NT coach and the u21 coach to post a list of which skills he values for the 5 positions to help those of us who are struggling through this game train appropriately.


Lastly, I'll ask. How are we behind anyone in the world on the NT stage? This is a US based game, right? Why aren't we the class of the world? Is it userbase? Is it training issues? Is it organization?