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According to the salary calculator I use, player 1 would have a salary of $339k, and player 2 would have a salary of $182k with all other skills at atrocious.
A better comparison may be player 1 (18 IS, ID, RE and 7 SB), to a player with 17 IS, ID, RE and 13 SB who would also have $339k salary, or if you want higher SB, a player with 17 IS and ID, 16 RE, and 15 SB who would have $340k salary.

Heathcliff Attackers needs a Rajon Rondo or so, because his offensive movement isn't great.

The situation you described is precisely what 2-3 is designed for.

Am I to understand that the "2-3 is broken" argument is centered around the concept that 2-3 should work in situations it wasn't meant for?

You have double his salaries, you only won by 8!! Plus you had HCA!!

Yeah, but I'm Edju, so that evens things out.

I just wanna say a few things. (to be honest I only read like half of this post)

In Real Life going inside is better. You have to attack. So Nelly's Wariors while being entertaining weren't too successful. I would say Look Inside is the most effective offence in RL!
2-3 zone is the one zone that is often employed in NBA. How do you beat it? 3pt shots, drive and kick.
So no surprises there. 2-3 would be effective vs Low Post, which I'm not sure it is at BB, really..
2-3 advantage is also the fact that it eliminates opponents pick'n'rolls, pick'n'pops, but since they're invisible in BB, you can't see this advantage either.

The problem and deviations from RL I think is how skills work. Which guards in RL are poor at lay-ups?
It's the first thing you learn. In BB it's very hard to train IS for guards, so everyone trains their outside skills, thus creating and outside oriented teams.

BB somehow manage to reinstall the proper balance giving an edge to inside teams. I can see it being unfair to people who care more about consistency of BB than its similarity to real life.

p.s. A fantastic idea, bringing everything together, balancing training and salaries was put forth earlier. A new skill called Athleticism with 6'7 players gaining a slight more RL-like advantage, addressing Shot Blocking skill.
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/community/forum/read.aspx?thread=178282&m=1

Last edited by thylacine at 5/16/2011 1:54:42 PM