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Oh well I started something like 1-2 weeks ago and I feel that a little bit of mentoring wouldn't be bad for me =)
Feel free to give me some advices!

I agree with yodabig, Driving is important, LA Lakers a top team just had a shooting guard up with Phenomenal handling and driving, and wondrous passing, however he only had proficient jump shot and respectable jump range, he had around a .500 shooting, and .400 3pt percentage, he was 23 and a mvp, this kind of player reminds me of mj... however someone with wondorous+ shooting and range is more of a peja or ginobli... which is good but does not stick out in my mind, especially in AI environment.

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/4667075/overview.aspx

Hi guys, i just started, am on my way to completing the tutorial but could do with a bit of help. Mainly on training. Thanks.

Where to start. Its a good idea to read the forums a lot of questions u have have probably been asked by other people. When your starting out the general choice is whether u want to train bigs or smalls. SF's are a bit trickier to train and probably left for when your more experienced.

I am unsure, whatever is easier i suppose. You can look at my players and see if i have any potential if you want, because i don't know.

Well when your looking for trainees the younger the better as they train faster. So u aim to train them up from 18 or 19. Guards might be your best bet. You have Denton and O'Neill who are not great trainees but will probably do the job for now. Another 18 or 19 year old guard or 2 would be good to get. Potential doesn't have to be that high but at least star potential if u can.

Ok, so what should i look to be training and how much of each?

To get full training a player must play for 48 minutes in the position(s) that you are training. If he plays less than this he still gets training but it is not as effective. If he plays more than 48 minutes it is still exactly the same as if he played 48minutes.

The fastest way and most effective training is 1 position training. This is when you only train 1 position either PG, C or SG (Jump Range is the only option for SG thou) By doing this you can train 3 players a week by playing each of the for 48 minutes in each of your games. There are a few types of trainings that do not allow 1 position training (Jump Shot, One on One and so on) so for these you must use 2 position training, which is just about as effective as 1 position training (only for the ones without 1 position training)

Young players train faster than old players so the most effective way to train is to have 3 young players (18-20 year olds) who are either all PG's and SG's or PF's and C's and do 1 position training having 1 of them playing the full game at PG or C. Then if a player doesn't play the full 48mins (fouls out or gets injured) play him at SG or PF in the next game and do 2 position trainng for that week.

This ofcause is all just my opinion based on what I have read and what seems to work best from my experience (and from hearing about some results from friends trying different training tactics) but if I were you I'd look through some forums and read as much as you can.

So you recommend one posistion training? I was thik of training PG's and SG's. I have one 18yo bought already and have three more on the way. Does anyone else have an opinion on wether i should start off with one posistion or two posistion training? Thanks.

That is what I do and I have had very good results so far.

Training 2 positions is fine. It is slightly slower but in the end there is more profit to make. If you are going to train PG/SG I'd personally go with outside shooting for a few weeks and handling. OS trains jump range as primary and jump shot as secondary. Handling trains handling as primary and defense as secondary plus minimal driving. Give them some def and passing traing at end of season until they pop in that particular skill. Do this for about 5 seasons before selling and buying new trainees.