I have been looking recently ALOT for inside players, they all have IS,ID and RB and maybe a little bit stamina and maybe a little bit free throw... Noone seems to train driving, which I believe should be important as well for an inside player. (but I am a noob, and might be totally wrong).
IT is relatively hard to train anything other than IS, ID, RB and SB for big men. Therefore, even though in reality they can use Pass, JS, and even OD, people tend not to go out of their way to train these skills.
Guards, on the other hand, can train JS, JR, OD, HN, PS and DR with a relatively simple rotation and without sacrificing (too much) performance. My sense is that OD, JR, JS and PS are the critical skills there, and everything else is gravy.
Taking the 4 core skills as described, I don't think a 4-skill guard is in any way inferior to a 4-skill center.
This is, of course, just my interpretation of the situation. I guess the point I am trying to make is that I don't think you don't have to train something just because you can or just because it pops fast, as I am afraid quite a number of people do right now.
Last edited by GM-kozlodoev at 1/1/2009 5:36:42 PM
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