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I'm sure this question has been asked many times, so my apologies.

I have a great point guard with low IS. I tend to play alot of inside offense.

Do guards with high IS perform far better at inside offenses or is passing far more important to get the ball inside to the bigs?

He is not a great point guard yet if he has low inside shot. Stats and FG%. Would you prefer a guard shooting below .500 but having a high 3 point %. It depends on what the distribution of his shot attempts are. Passing is definitely important but having too much will make your guard too expensive to keep. Passing as a skill is not specific to any position but if you play look inside and low post a lot, shot distribution will more likely go to the SF, PF and Center slot. The one who enjoys the highest mismatch usually gets the ball more often from the guard. (In a perfect world) The game engine doesn't go play by play in terms of who initiated the pass but it will show as an assist in the stat column.

Indeed, guards with high IS do perform better offensively in any type of offence, particularly inside ones. Also of great benefit alongside high IS is a high driving stat, which I'm guessing your PG already has a decent amount of.

If you haven't already pounded a bunch of one on one training, then training him for a season or two in one on one forwards would be a nice way to develop several of his stats, including his IS. Given he was an U21 player, I'm guessing he got a fair bit of one on one guards however, so I couldn't recommend any more one on one without first making sure it wouldn't throw his JS/HA/DR too high and out of balance.

If you wanted more specific guidance or advice, you could get in touch with the Australian NT manager, mllama, as I'm sure he'd be happy to guide a possible future NT player - or even myself, if you didn't mind showing his stats to one of your division rivals ;)

Ultimately, it looks like you have a very nice player to work with, and hopefully one you can build a successful team around long term - that's what I did and it's worked for me so far :) Good luck!

Thanks guys for your replies.

Yes I have spoken to mllama who was very helpful and got me thinking about all this.

Really I am trying to determine what is the best area to limit as I am trying to keep his salary to around $200k.
Unfortunately we cant have everything, cant have great defense, great passing, great outside scoring and great inside scoring. So as a PG what is most important if your teams plays predominately inside offense?

Based on my limited experience, when I play LI I, playing 3 PFs, I need both guards to have high passing and JS with JR at most 3 levels lower. OD is a must with driving and handling secondary.

For LP i normally play my best passer at SF so ideally high passing & handling preferably with some ID, IS, thrown in.

Exactly how high would depend on your opponents.

Thanks DoG that was exactly the info I was after. cheers :)

I'd say some IS training can be very beneficial for your guard, as he'll be driving inside too, and without proper inside scoring his only option is to pass once he does so. If he doesn't have a good pass to make, he'll turn the ball over or take a bad shot. I'd figure if he at least had mediocre-respectable inside shot his options when driving will be better; most of the time he'll still look for the pass but he can make a decent shot if he can't find one.