William Albert (29474474) Shooting Guard
Weekly salary: $ 3 952
Age: 18
Height: 6'4" / 193 cm
Potential: allstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: average Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: inept
Driving: respectable Passing: awful
Inside Shot: mediocre Inside Def.: inept
Rebounding: pitiful Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: average
This player is fine as a 3rd trainee as he is an original player you will get a merchandising boost from having trained him and it is good to keep at least someone from your startup team. For training he needs OD, PA and JS. With luck you can draft a second trainable player. Then I would just buy a third one and for the third make sure he has at least superstar potential. Everyone will scream at me for saying this but I think you should buy a 19 year old. For peanuts you can pick up a 19 year old with better height, potential and skills than you will be able to afford in an 18 year old. In reality, the 19 year old with better starting skills and height is probably only six months behind the lesser 18 year old but everyone goes nuts over the 18s.
6'0" $5,000 salary 19 year old superstars will sell for less than 6'6" $3,500 18 year old perrenial all stars. If you are a new team that wants to train guards the first is much better.
Kinda a shame that Mahoney wasn't the 18 year old and Albert the 19year old in my book.... I think this advice is very sound, but still maintain he should use his new-franchise start-up money (which it looks like he sank into his arena entirely), and buy 3 18year old guys if the draft is a bust. then just throw these other guys he has posted on a as needed basis to JS, 1v1, Reb, whatever 2-pos training he needs based on height of drafted/purchased trainees.
the 19 year old SS purchase is baller ... I think I might steal that advice myself for my own team...