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Interesting, I have never thought about it this way.

Can I understand it as
the training areas (such as Inside Defense, Rebounding, Outside Shooting, and Handling) remain unchanged,
and the content and speed of training remain unchanged,
but only the second drop-down menu that decides which positions to train is changed to the number of players (changed to 3, 6, 9, or Team based on the original number of positions),
and a new "select" option to choose which players to train is added?

Last edited by little Guest at 06/07/2024 10:55:15

I agree with the basis of the proposal but precisely one of the things that I liked most about the game is discovering that a player had to be used in certain positions to increase his qualities in a certain skill.
Contrary to what you say, it is something completely real. For example, Pau Gasol acquired his passing and dribbling skills playing as a point guard for Barcelona despite being the tallest on the squad.

He did do that in the lower categories, not once having risen to the first team.

That's why I like your idea but related to another that I have proposed, which is youth teams. (323660.1)

I think that the player's initial training is very important and that once he reaches the elite the player continues to evolve but more in tactical concepts, game vision and above all experience but at 24 years old he does not know how to shoot from 3 or give a pass You are no longer going to become a master of that.

On the other hand, that a national team has to play official matches with improper third-category players, either to avoid exhausting the starters or to train them when they are already quite old, seems crazy to me without any sense.

Everytime someone complains about position training to develop certain skills compared to the real world I think of Giannis Basketball Reference page that has him listed at PG/SG/SF his first 4 seasons when he developed lots of his skills that made him what he is today.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/a/antetgi01.html

Variations of your proposal have been proposed all those years. They are all mostly nice but they would also mean a completely different game and thus are hard to consider.

However, there is an implementation that could be made and which would allow more variations, would allow some secrecy and also would keep the spirit of how BB training works:

- training should be possible not only for the player's designated offensive position but also for the player's designated defense position.

For example, you have a perimeter player that you want to develop his inside skills, than:

Player A - offense PG defense C
Player B - offense SG defense PG
Player C - offense SF defense SG
Player D - offense PF defense SF
Player E - offense C defense PF

You choose that you want the players who defend as centers to train ID, so in this case player A receive training.

In order to keep things more realistic, this could be the default way to train defenses.