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I'll try to give my take on a few of the questions you have raised. It is only my opinion, but from your comments, I think you will appreciate these.

1) The newbie thread position skill list is adequate, simply not all-encompassing. In real basketball, every position uses every skill at some point in the game and the designers say (perhaps not often enough) that they have structured the game engine to show this. So no skill is worthless.

2) The question of which skills a SF should possess depends on the style of offense you wish to play. You DO need to make a choice here. This is where your lack of familiarity with real basketball hurts you, I think. Most of us that have followed basketball all our lives understand what it is needed to run the five different offenses. You need to select an offense, then buy/train players who can run that offense.

Defense is harder to advise on because it depends on what your opponents are playing. This is the reason you don't get solid answers on the SF question. What I mean is that a SF with high skills in OD will be less than useful if you are in a league where the top teams all have inside player offenses. He will defend well on the outside, but the other teams will overpower him inside.

Those are some of the reasons no one has a definitive list of exactly what you should train at each position. The basic skills are the list you see, what you do after that is up to you. And you do need to make choices to fufill your tactical choices.

3) As to success, there is only one real measure--win!

Other goals are more specific. Mine is to decide if this game is really worth playing. I played seasons 3-5, got promoted from IV to III and was on track to be promoted to II when simply stopped playing. Why? It was too easy for me. No challenge. Plus, too much of the game is unrealistic. I could write more about that part, but it would not answer your questions.

I hope that helps.

Oh yes, and watch more basketball on TV if you can. It will help you immensely.

(118426.7) - maybe you could use this one, this was the opion of three german NT and the guy who make it in this forum - you could also read it at the page linked in the signature but i believe the english part in the swedish forum is better then our german text ;) Even if it was a bit more detailed.

Cheers. Really nice post.

I've taken to watching ESPN in the hope of catching NBA and College basketball, however it seems every time I go to ESPN America they have Ice Hockey or Baseball on!

I have no problems with Ice Hockey, it is a rather cool sport, but baseball...ugh.

Basketball is quite rare to see, which is a surprise to me as I've heard Basketball stars command the biggest salaries and sponsorship deals out of the popular American Sports. Of course I am happy to be corrected on this.

I must confess I was very disappointed in you.

All is forgiven! That is a brilliant link. I see it even contains your own opinion of what to look for in each position.

If you were a lady and next to me I would kiss you (if you would let me!).

Many thanks.

I've taken to watching ESPN in the hope of catching NBA and College basketball, however it seems every time I go to ESPN America they have Ice Hockey or Baseball on!

Meanwhile I live in NYC and cant watch a single hockey game w/o paying for it on NHL.com. All the NBA playoff games aren't on ESPN as the regular networks hold the rights to them.

Last edited by FatCurry at 4/29/2010 10:44:01 AM

Similar situation with football here, or soccer as you might call it.

We have to subscribe to specialist channels whereas many overseas countries can watch the EPL for free.

It's the way of the world alas.

I think passing is very important for a SF seeing they are the link between the big men and guards.

I must confess I was very disappointed in you.

the complete answer isn't that easy, and maybe you see it in the three different contributions that there are also different views of the importance from the skills so it is hard to make it in way that everyone agrees. If oyou ask me how i will distribute it, i am also pretty sure you will see small difference everytime i make it because this topic is very complicated.
You will also see differences betwenn the communitis in some skills, french for example trained a lot driving in the past(i believed that changed today) while italy nearly ignored it at those time but both NT manage to have succes ;)


But the post from the sticky was pretty crappy, because it was made in the beginning of the game where we have less feeling for the engine and especially we now have a new one ;) So i like to make at least the short reply that you should ignore it, because of the many faults(underrating Defense i.e.).

In my Opinion here are the most important skills for an SF (since im training one for the U21 NT :D)

1. Outside Defence and Inside Defence
2. Jump Shot and Jump Range (some people like an inside oriented SF, but that makes no sense, just make a PF then haha)
3. Inside Shot, Rebounding, Passing (now a lot of people say that Rebounding is VERY important. To me, maybe proficient or prominent is good enough)
4. Driving (more important of course if the IS is really good)
5. The rest of the skills?

It depends what you are doing. I play a 3-guard offense with a premium on passing. If you have that sort of attack, JS/JR/H/DR are necessary. Lots of 1on1 training helps matters dramatically in that area.