@Lemonshine:
I was mostly referring more to the point that unguarded shots are 'defended' by team ratings (Trainerman's theory). ID rating is mostly (if not entirely) generated by ID, so if that theory is correct the more unguarded shots you face, the better it would be to have ID over SB (marginal value and marginal cost being equal, which they are not, but that's another discussion).
OD and ID prevent open shots (that's what Trainerman calls team pressure or sth like that). That something I posted the first time four or five seasons ago. It's the defense against the players. With OD and ID you try to minimize the possible FG% for your opponent. During this time, OD and ID are more important than SB. That's what most of the teams play. But as soon as your opponent decides to shoot, you need SB. So you have actually three ways here:
1) go with ID>SB: you try to defend the player and don't give him a good shooting spot, the block isn't your aim
2) go with ID=SB: The kind of players I prefer and also have.
3) go with SB>ID: you leave your opponent more room to shoot and your main target is to block his shot. I think that's a dangerous option, because you could end up with given more open shots to your opponent because of the lack of ID
ID rating is mostly (if not entirely) generated by ID
The first part is right ;) ID rating is mostly generated from ID, but you need SB too. But not as much as ID.
From Charles:
Blocking does contribute to inside defense, but the much stronger effect is simply that some shots are blocked rather than becoming either made or missed.
From your other post:
If that's the case, the more flow the opponent has, the more OD and ID are important compared to SB?
YES! We have a winner. But now look at it from the other side. What do you need for a high flow? Passing. Why do you need it? To find open shots. And why don't we have a lot of open shots? Because OD and ID are far higher than PA. And because of this dilemma the FG%, especially for outside teams, is too low. The guards have to outplay OD 15+ players almost in every team from division 3 and higher.
@minde:
So, in this thread the ID is the skill as the SB is in the other ones.. [
] like least important..
I don't think so. Like I wrote some line above, for me ID is as much important as SB. But you have to balance it. And it's also important to to look at your opponents.
During the traineing of my two guys something happend with them. I showed it to Manon, but I can't remember if he had the same "problem". Both my trainees had low foul numbers. I trained SB and ID and than the first one started fouling more and more. For around a half season. Than his fouls went down again. Next season the same thing happend to the other trainee. And it bothered me that I couldn't find out why. Until I compaired their skills and their opponents. When they reached ID 12+SB 12, they started to defend more shots. There ID was good enough to prefent open shots, but they weren't strong enough to minimize the possible FG%. And with their SB they tried to stop the shot and fouled. But both stopped with this when they reached ID 14 + SB 14. They still defendend the higher amount of shots, but they could block more of them and didn't foul. And their oppoents were most of the time IS 14-16 bigs.
Balance is everything.