I see differences, but your a bit off in my strategy. i bought 2 players off transfer list recently, both starting bigs. I trained a PG and SG from 18yrs (one home grown), and added 2 SFs along the way that had inside skills already but needed guard skills. Ive been able to shape my team by training my 3 starters how i want them to look from the start. Having said that I have not shone away from turning trainees into large salaried players, as I wanted to turn them into the best players in their positions in our country.