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I have recently purchased a bigman and will purchase another one soon. I am wondering what should be my training regiment over the next couple seasons in order to have the best players.

I recently purchased this player who is on Lebanon's U21 team already,

Sharif:
Weekly salary: $ 3 805
Age: 18
Height: 7'1" / 216 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: awful ↑ Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: mediocre Handling: strong ↑
Driving: respectable ↑ Passing: pitiful
Inside Shot: strong Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: awful Free Throw: atrocious

Experience: pitiful


And am looking to purchase this player

Leung:
Weekly salary: $ 3 010
Age: 18
Height: 7'0" / 213 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: average
Jump Shot: pitiful Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: atrocious Handling: pitiful
Driving: respectable Passing: inept
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: inept
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: average Free Throw: average


I was thinking about doing one on one - forwards for awhile, but am not too sure. Tell me what you guys think! Thanks.

I think 1v1 is a good start for them! Training bigs can get pretty expensive, so I would spend a lot of time on secondaries for them before moving to primaries, as they will be better overall bigs in the future and not cost as much salary wise every week. I think after 1v1, you could move onto OD and ID for awhile. With their height and potential they could be some very nice cornerstones for your team!

You said training ID as well. Does ID not raise the salary as much as training IS?

Yeah a few weeks of 1v1 is a good starting point for your training. Like said, training secondaries is a smart thing to do when your trainee is young and trains fast, and you won't miss him on his primary position since he's not good anyway (as opposed to playing a 50k center at PG, you'll miss him at C). Your first guy actually has pretty good DR/HA already, and with some Passing training they will be around 10. Get OD up too, so you have the hardest to train secondaries at a good level right away. JS can be trained later from the PF position.

Once done with the secondaries I'd start with ID so your guy can at least defend and with the good passing he won't be too much of a weak link on offense.

No, I think it raises it about the same. The difference is if your trainee can defend well, he can play in higher leagues and in more games rather than being a liability. Easier to make up offense than defense, which is why defense is usually suggested before offense for training. Or at least that is my belief along with many other people.

ok im gonna buck the trend of the advice given here.

You are in Div IV. and you have MVP trainee's. who are 7'0 and 7'1.

And are 18.

You can't ignore primary skills forever. So unless you are planning on moving up 2 divisons in th next few seasons, train the primaries and then sell them. They are MVP potential, so you are looking at having a $150k+ Salary big man in about 5 seasons time.

yes - train 1n1 for forwards, but really, financially, its pointless to try and limit their salary for MVP potential players. Train them to be good players to sell. Oterwise you are wasting their potential and height.

On the other hand, if you ARE plannign on being in Div II in 3-4 seasons time (hehe go for it!) - then. train ID and SB. You could get away with Respectable Driving whilst in div IV (and possibly in Div III). After that, you will need to bump it a bit.

I think with good secondaries trained and overall good training they'll sell for a lot more than if you were to sell them now.

Yeah, and everyone is advising against that. Most are advising to train secondaries first to avoid that problem and to increase market value, while the alternative that has been advised to sell right away. No-one said train primaries endlessly.