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This player has prodigious defense @ 19! He could easily be a legendary defender by the time he's 20.
How did he train so quickly? He has only a 5k salary so it doesn't look as though he got too much training last season, and we're not even at all-star break yet.
Is this the work of a world renowned trainer? Because I'll have to get one if this is the speed I could be training at.


Last edited by JON at 8/7/2010 3:09:23 PM

Firstly, I would remove the link as you are not allowed to link to a player on the transfer list.
Secondly, great defence for a 19 year old but pity the other skills aren't very good.
Thirdly, assuming the player started with respectable OD that means he has had 9 pops in outside defence.
Chances are that he was 1 position trained for OD every week and no other training has been applied.
There has been 20 training weeks so far. So that means 9 pops in OD in 20 weeks.
Considering that he was 18/19 years old and because he is so short I think it explains why he average 1 pop every 2 to 2.5 weeks.
I think you could do this with a level 4 trainer if the OD of the player started at respectable with a high sublevel.
I am also surprised his salary isn't higher, although the salary calculator estimates his current salary (with the high defence) to be around 8k, so I am guessing that the reason his salary is so low is because all of his other skills are quite low.

OK, I removed the link.

Who cares about the rest of his skills? At his height, handling, passing and jump shooting will all come along quickly. Wow, he's 19 @ prodigious OD ffs! You can train the rest of his skills next season when he's nearly legendary defender.

If an Average trainer could do this, then you've got to explain to me what's the point of getting anything above Average...

haha I wasn't saying he wasn't good because of his other skills, I was just saying that it would have been double awesome if his other skills were good too.
If I was the owner I would stop training OD now and concentrate on training the other skills.

I think an advanced trainer could do it, but it is possible that the owner had a superior trainer (or higher I suppose).
Well if you can do that with an advanced trainer, maybe with a world reknowned trainer he would already be at legendary? :D

To be honest, I think the main reason he has trained so quickly is because he is really really really short and so he trains really really really fast in OD :)

Yea I would stop training his OD and concentrate on other skills at this point I agree.

Do we know for sure that shorter guards (5'10", 5'11",) train quicker than taller (6'1", 6'2") guards in OD?

Realistically I would imagine 6'2, 6'3 guards would train quicker . They have the advantage of their height and can get in the face of the opposing shooters much easier. Then again, smaller guards would have the ability to steal easier than bigger guards.

Sorry i'm just thinking out loud to myself at this point.

Last edited by JON at 8/7/2010 3:34:28 PM

As far as I am aware, the general concensus is that the shorter the player the faster he trains in guard skills.
There has been some research done on it and it seems to point to this conclusion.

While it might be different in reality, in the game a 5'11" will train OD faster than a 6'3" guy, and a 7'4" guy will train faster in Rebounding than a 6'11" guy.

Ok, that makes sense. I'm curious to buy a smaller guard now, mine are over 6'.


Last edited by JON at 8/7/2010 3:57:44 PM