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143443.1
Date: 5/9/2010 12:35:08 PM
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Here's one of my shooting guards:

Jump Shot: strong Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: average
Driving: inept Passing: average
Inside Shot: pitiful Inside Def.: inept
Rebounding: atrocious Shot Blocking: inept
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: mediocre

For USA.IV, these are not terrible ratings. But in 8 games, he's 20-78 (.256) from the field and 3-22 (.136) for three-pointers.

I can't figure out what this guy's flaw is. His Game Shape is okay. Stamina is bad, but I've got other guys just as bad or worse and they aren't suffering like this. I'm playing Look Inside or Base Offense, and almost all my players are good passers, so I don't think he's taking an undue amount of difficult shots. The games were against equal or inferior teams to mine, so I can't believe he's met a run of great defenders. The guy just can't shoot and I can't figure out why. Can anyone offer any insight?

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143443.2 in reply to 143443.1
Date: 5/9/2010 5:20:19 PM
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my bet is his going up against defenders with strong+ outside def.

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143443.3 in reply to 143443.2
Date: 5/9/2010 10:03:59 PM
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my bet is his going up against defenders with strong+ outside def.


The Team Ratings in the boxscores don't indicate that. He went 7-21 against a team with Awful perimeter defense team rating (20398141), 3-11 against an Inept (low) (20398134), and 3-12 against a Pitiful one (20398119). In all cases my team's Outside Shooting rating was better or about the same. None of the individual players he faced were high salaried; some of them were in the $3000 range.

The guy's played 15 games for me, including cup, scrimmage, and private league, and he's been awful in all of them. There's got to be something more.

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143443.4 in reply to 143443.1
Date: 5/9/2010 10:18:43 PM
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This is a problem when you play Look Inside. Your first priority is to try get the ball inside. If they can't get it inside then they are forced to take shots from the perimeter. These are usually contested shots so thus he more often misses than hits.

Try playing a more rounded offense or a outside tactic and you will notice that his shooting %will increase.

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143443.5 in reply to 143443.1
Date: 5/9/2010 10:30:48 PM
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My opinion:

If you are playing look inside, then your guards also drive into basket sometimes (At least it happens to me). i I think there your players scoring factor comes more from driving & inside shot. So inept driving + pitiful inside shot is not so good in this case.

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143443.7 in reply to 143443.3
Date: 5/10/2010 6:29:58 AM
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My opinion:

If you are playing look inside, then your guards also drive into basket sometimes (At least it happens to me). i I think there your players scoring factor comes more from driving & inside shot. So inept driving + pitiful inside shot is not so good in this case.
Exactly! And if the opponent SG has an Inside Def. of 4+ then your guy is just unable to do more.
See the replays of your matches. Where is he shooting from? If the most shots are inside the paint then you get your answer...

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143443.9 in reply to 143443.5
Date: 5/10/2010 7:44:53 PM
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If you are playing look inside, then your guards also drive into basket sometimes. So inept driving + pitiful inside shot is not so good in this case.


Now that I've reviewed some of the game logs, that makes a lot of sense. When I play Look Inside, my best SG has been the guy with Strong driving, even though he is not as good as shooter as the other guys I've played at the position.

The guy in the OP is taking a lot of long 2's. That suggests he is having trouble driving and has to shoot from a distance. Still, I play Base Offense about half the time and he's having the same problems there.

Thanks for your advice. And thanks to everyone who responded! Everyone's input was most helpful.

Last edited by Jerry Midwest at 5/10/2010 8:00:36 PM

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143443.10 in reply to 143443.9
Date: 5/11/2010 7:27:21 PM
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Experience may also be a factor, smedlock's dude has prominent experience...