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Yes,i think we are discussing the way to implement shot blocking if there will be a change
Shot blocking doesnt' make a player so stronger as some traineers wants
the second shot blocking player in the NBA is the reserve centre of Denver Nuggets...
A little less useful could became,but a very little

Steal is a gamble. When you are defending you have to stay in front of your man trying to make driving difficult for him, you have to be ready to put hand in his face and stretch out when he's going to shoot or you can try to steal the ball (either when he is receiveng the ball or he is having problems with handling in thep lay) But if you go for the steal and fail you are creating a hole in defense. So I can live with stealing as a part of defense skill - it just reprrsents how good decision maker the player in deciding whether he should go for a steal or not. There is no penalty in normal settings (correct me BB men if this is not true) for traing to get a steal, no harm to defense. There is only FCP which is more about traps and is more about team effort than about a decision of a defender in one on one situation.

Sorry for a bit off topic.

a stealer is certainly a good dfender,a blocker could not

I believe that shot blocking either has to become more useful or eliminated. In its current format it:

-serves very little purpose in-game. Perhaps you will block a few but this has only a small impact on the outcome. Plus, if the opponent player has good enough skills, this negates your shot blocking anyways.
-because it is a skill, new users make the assumption that it is useful. I have seen many users post on the forum that it makes a contribution to inside d, which is clearly false.

Now don't go telling me that people should know better. Why? Because it has been discussed on the forums? Only a small percentage read the forums and even then they would still have to find the relevant post. Not to mention some of the misinformation out there.

They should do their own research? That takes time and experience. It took me 2 seasons before I figured this one out. Granted, I'm slower than the average guy, but so is your average user. ;-)

By the way, you missed out the category of player that knows SB is pretty useless, but makes sure his players have a decent level because they expect that to be fixed in the future.

Fixing it must be well overdue then...

I will also say that I do think in reality those who try to block a lot of shot do foul more.. though I don't think I want that part of BB because I dont want training a good player a little bit more in shot blocking to make him worth less because he fouls out all the time. Since there is no way to "untrain" it would be very bad for an owner to discover he invested training in his star player and actually made him less valuable.

I believing today we have the same problem, when you train blocking the salary increase pretty much with nearly no effect on the gameplay ... I checked the players with blocking 10 on the tl in the past, and they usually made around 1 Block per game or even less. Which ain't a noticeable different to other Centers, or at least no big different.

Also Centers with blocking reach their potential earlier then others, so you was punish in 2 ways for training blocking and it would be fine when you could untrain it today, or make it usefull