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I have been training guards my first few seasons and my advice would be to train OD then Passing then Handling(along with 3-5 weeks of Jumpshot each season). If you train your OD up now while your player is going to pop fast just because he is young, you will be able to train Passing and Handling when he is 20-21 and training will start to slow(but not as much for your player because those skills will be behind his other skills). I recommend training Handling last because you will have a better idea of how much you need to train that skill after seeing how many secondary pops you get while training OD and Passing. I would trade in a few of the weeks I spent training Handling with my guards for OD, Passing, or Jumpshot.

I also wouldn't train One on One early on with your small forward. Driving is another skill that gets a lot of secondary pops and it doesn't seem like driving is a skill you want to get really high while your other skills are really low if you want to win games. I would replace it with Jump Shot.

I c, in fact, what you're saying makes sense to me too. How about 2 weeks of OD followed by 1 week of passing, then 2 weeks of OD again followed by 1 week of passing? Because I don't really want the passing to be awful and want to improve it. This way, OD will improve with the passing. Perhaps by 2 weeks of passing training, I could at least make it to inept and 4 weeks of OD would bring OD to proficient since OD takes 2 weeks to pop in 1 position training.