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I'm sorry if I misled you, I just wanted to share my ideas with the established players, on one side to bring some new insights for our common knowledge of the game, and on the other side because I just like out of the box thinking and solutions. I realize I'm not in a position to apply this strategy to the full extend, but I wanted to know wether it would be possible when I am ready. Also, it would be great if others can use the strategy succesfully; I don't need the succes myself, but the fact that others can use my ideas to be succesful is great for me too.

I might try this idea myself on a smaller scale, lower skill levels and just a PG and a C. If you like the idea yourself, feel free to try it out, you don't have to do it for me. I greatly appreciate your input and thank you for that. So I apologize if I wasn't upfront enough with you which caused you to spend time that you could have used otherwise.

Yeah I heard about it, maybe I can come up with a new idea around that dynamic. In any case, thank you for your input.

If others are in a favorable situation and want to try this idea, feel free to do so and let me know how it works out

Yeah I heard about it, maybe I can come up with a new idea around that dynamic. In any case, thank you for your input.

If others are in a favorable situation and want to try this idea, feel free to do so and let me know how it works out

The other thing I'd point out is that the patient with a G at C can be effective with a team that primarily plays LI, but if you do it regularly competent managers will adjust their defensive tactics to shut it down - and it's one of those tactics that if it's anticipated it's simply not going to beat an opponent who is even close to your level.

The other thing I'd point out is that the patient with a G at C can be effective with a team that primarily plays LI, but if you do it regularly competent managers will adjust their defensive tactics to shut it down - and it's one of those tactics that if it's anticipated it's simply not going to beat an opponent who is even close to your level.

I understand... so we're back to just running LI?

The other thing I'd point out is that the patient with a G at C can be effective with a team that primarily plays LI, but if you do it regularly competent managers will adjust their defensive tactics to shut it down - and it's one of those tactics that if it's anticipated it's simply not going to beat an opponent who is even close to your level.

I understand... so we're back to just running LI?

I think the point is more that patient isn't an offense you can build a team around.

Moutlinho and his team (70514) has been running Patient for a very long time and has been doing so very well.
I think that as long as you build your team for just that offense and can move your scorer from different positions every game i think you can get a real good performance out of your team.

And he's faced 3 3-2s in the last season and a half in league play (plus the odd 1-3-1). Of course, he's got three guards over 65k in salary, while only two other teams have two above 50k, so it's quite possible that a 3-2 would be a miserable decision against him - and it's also quite possible that there would be as much if not more success with motion. I still think that just having a single scoring threat is going to get shut down as long as the opposition is active and has close to the same level of players.

Im not that sure about that. I would love to see a team that has players with great PA and HA but pretty low shotting on every player except your designated scorer. With enough JS/JR/DR and at least some IS to go with it i think you can do real well. I know Moutlinhos scorer only had 7 IS so its not that you actually need a lot of it to work well. And he actually been up in the Turkish D.1. You cant say that is not worth anything in a big country as Turkey.

It'd be an interesting experiment. I still think it'd be extremely vulnerable to the 3-2 if they have enough OD players to put solid defenders at all three outside defender spots, though, since it's hard to imagine that there's going to be enough passing to overcome all the OD thrown at it in that scenario - but of course one could say the same thing about Princeton and I know some idiot is building a team that way. ;)

I suppose I'll need to try to find some time to look back at his team's past to see what I can pick up. I'm more than willing to concede a team with more outside threats than the opponent can defend can be extremely successful in a patient - at least this season his patient is a "here's my lineup, see if you can stop it" rather than trying to put a guard out of position and relying on subterfuge.