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I'm mostly just tired of the BBs constantly pushing us to make well-rounded players. It's becoming ridiculous at this point. We don't have to be told how to play a game.

Now it's gotten so absurd that they would punish all players, even the ones that were making well rounded players to begin with, just so they can handicap the guys who make huge salary monsters.

Nice.

I'm mostly just tired of the BBs constantly pushing us to make well-rounded players. It's becoming ridiculous at this point. We don't have to be told how to play a game.

Now it's gotten so absurd that they would punish all players, even the ones that were making well rounded players to begin with, just so they can handicap the guys who make huge salary monsters.

Nice.

Here's why I hate this argument. High-salary mono-monsters aren't realistic irl. Even the worst shooter will make one every once in a while, and even the worst passer will get the occasional assist. Even Yinka Dare ended up with a few.

Also, once again irl, players may work on one skill more than others as they practice, but they still practice all their skills, in drills, scrimmages, and games. BB is simulating this. Do you really think a center who plays the position every night but doesn't "train" shot blocking won't be able to improve his shot blocking attributes?

If BBs are pushing to make the game, and its players, more realistic, I applaud their efforts. I don't think this change was implemented carefully enough, but the jury's out on whether it makes BB better or not.

And next step is training the players separate no?

Because it's quite unrealistic that you train only some players and others don't

If you want something realistic you go and play NBA 2k11, not BB ;)

Friday morning, Phil logs in and his beloved Chauncey Kidd has popped on passing!! Now Chauncey has 16 passing, and his salary will skyrocket!!

And instead of selling next season a PG with 120k salary and 15 passing he will be able to sell a PG with 122k salary and 16 passing!! He will be able to sell the player for some hundreds of thousands more than he expected. Great news after all!!

It's a punch in the face to all of the managers out there that have spent 6+ seasons training up great SFs.

Now you don't need to use your center at PG for 2-3 weeks in order to train passing for one level. Most likely passing will be trained itself during the season while training normal C.

Maybe the option to turn cross training off for certain players would make sense.

And it's the only and the main problem of the new feature. Now I expect the new era of prices drop. Now much more users will afford the players with nice secondaries and won't need to overpay. And the players without secondaries will drop their price even more.

Not sure...

If we talk about real SF, you will need at least 4-5 levels more in almost every skills. But let's take an example. You have a young 18 year old player and you want to make him a SF. You start by training him outside (for example) during 3-4 seasons and you're lucky, you allready had 2 pops in RB. It's nice because now you only need 3 more levels in RB instead of 5 levels. So you start to train him in RB but it takes more time than before (because cross training). And Finally because you were lucky to get 2 "random" pops, you have won only 2 weeks of RB training.

So does cross-training make easier the training of real all-around SF? I don't think so. But if you have a young C who is allready 7 in OD and if you want to make him a PF, maybe he will become 8-9 in OD without any pressure training.

So cross-training can help but not too much. I think it could be a good compromise but we need time to discover it :)