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Fellow Americans, don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zones and try new ideas or builds. I want to push upon you something new, at least for the U.S., and focus on lots of 1v1f and defense. I want to implement a new style of training into our U21 prospects. Change is necessary. Here are my thoughts...

Inside guard idea:

Train 1v1f and OD until 21 For a guard prospect that has decent PS and JR already, this would be great. I love PS, but at the U21 lvl not much should be needed as long as you have good HN/DV; my starting guard lineup in the NBBA finals -- Meek (10 PS) and Isom (9 PS). Personally, I would love more passing; however, If I can get away with lower passing for guards at a D1 lvl, we'd be OK with less passing at the U21 lvl for an inside build. Also, I would like to do the same with SFs: Lots of 1v1f and OD/ID - less attention to PS/RB/JR, remember, you can address these skills at age 22. For our bigs, I was thinking aim for 12 RB, and pound 1v1f and ID

Again, I would like to implement this new style of training for all our prospects. This is a bold direction for the US U21 team, a direction I'm willing to guide us in. And it wouldn't stop at the U21 lvl, I would like to continue to guide our prospects all the way to the NT -- after the age of 21 we would start to round out these builds, focusing on a more diverse skill set; Player builds I already have in place.

One last thing...


CAN YOU DIG IT?!

Fellow Americans, don't be afraid to step out of your comfort zones and try new ideas or builds. I want to push upon you something new, at least for the U.S., and focus on lots of 1v1f and defense. I want to implement a new style of training into our U21 prospects. Change is necessary.

I have been throwing around the idea of making a "3 and D" build. Especially with the recent announcement of somewhat increased percentages on attempts I think it could be worth trying out.

The basic premise is that JS/JR/OD will all be trained to 14+ before anything else. Achievable with a PAS with a salary around 37k-ish. Along with that I'd train SB [hopefully to at least 10] to counter IS guards.

I doubt a player like that would be considered for the U21 [too much OD, player becomes a black hole, blah blah blah] but hypothetically what would need to happen for a player like to even sniff U21 especially since it is built completely opposite of how NT guards are expected to be built [high HND, high PA and no JR expected]

I feel like inside guards are going to start getting negated due to SB builds. The counter to that is snipers and strong offensive rebounders imho.

We actually had a guard like this this season. IMHO the lack of DR/HA/PA really hurt his performance. The only game he did well was when we played a 2-3 Zone. If you want to build a guy that can score, I think you need DR to help you generate shots and you need some type of flow so the guy is not jacking up bad shots and turning the ball over against other teams high OD guards. I think you can punt PA (leave it at like 7-9) if you have high levels of HA but you can't punt HA and PA and expect a guy to be effective on offense IMHO.

Those also aren't the expectations of a NT guard anymore. Unless its a tremendous inside guard, its expected that guards have JR to be able to play outside.

I completely agree with DRV, the issue is there is no way to train it individually and HND eats up CAP.

You had a guard with high SB on the team this season? Or just the high JS/JR component?

shooter with OD and no HA/DR/PA. no sb

How'd he do? That's my least favorite build on a U21 guard. Driving is everything, and passing makes his driving more effective, assuming BB follows real life basketball(not always a given).

I don't like that much either. Driving improves a player's ability to provide push in a situation where he is stuck, PA makes it easier for the flow not to get interrupted.

I don't mind the high IS/DR builds, but i tend to be a little weary of the interest of all positions reaching the same height (somewhere close to 16-17 DR and 16-17 IS), as i've seen other teams more successful with more unique players.

What consistently seems to work well even in a Look inside or Low Post offense is having that ball movement guy hold down the PG spot. This would be inconsistent with A-dub's build in some ways, because it would require less focus on DR (still around 13-14) in order to get more maximization out of OD and PA. Ideally that build gets some free SB to (speaking to the 6-7 starting point), but i think that the focus beyond that is a bit wasted in terms of development time unless you are building a SF (in which ID and SB become more interesting).

Last edited by FurY at 2/19/2016 2:17:33 PM

I doubt he did well, especially since we play inside focus a majority of the time.

My point, which hasn't been considered [one of the issues I've had with offsiter often] is that the sim is changing. Shouldn't we try to maximize on those changes? Or at least consider it.

Yes, te player last season may have not played well, but that was before the change. How much will this change effect the game? I have no idea, but shouldn't we take a proactive approach instead of just doing the same things we did prior and failed at?

hypothetical question for all potential managers,
Two players look like this at start of u21 year, whats your action, if any.

Player A
7/12/12/3/4/10/8/10/10/12

Player B
8/8/9/6/6/10/10/10/10/12