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I'm not sarcastic at all! That's what I really meant!

Just mentioned that even after so much time there are still things to learn about the game, which is great!

Last edited by ig at 6/5/2012 10:23:35 AM

i love this thread..

the probability of SB being a salary-efficient skill is the same as the probability of Low Post working better than Look Inside..
i hope i stay long enough to see the first guy training SB to 20..

This just made my life complete *sniffle* :)

Since I see this thread is coming back, I would like to voice my opinion once again. There is no possible way that anyone can say that SB isn't worth it if you have never actually taken the time to train it. I find it really hard to believe that the BB's would create a skill that has no affect on the game, and then lie to us by saying it is worth training. If they did this, I'm not so sure what to think about this game anymore...

It also is not fair to say that SB is too expensive to train. To bring up a point I believe I may have stated when I first started this thread, if you trained a Center who has triple 14's in the big man primaries, a 6 in SB, and 1's in every other skill that big's salary would be about 65k.

Now you take 2 pops from each of the primaries and add them to SB, to make your trainee a quadruple 12 player. This player still has atrocious in every other skill. The salary of this player would be about 44k.

20k a week is a big difference, and could save a team a lot of money. In the end, I don't think SB is a special skill or anything but it's a skill just like any other skill. I honestly do not believe there is a skill in BB that is not important.

Last edited by SREZ at 6/5/2012 5:39:14 PM

if you trained a Center who has triple 14's in the big man primaries, a 6 in SB, and 1's in every other skill that big's salary would be about 65k.

Now you take 2 pops from each of the primaries and add them to SB, to make your trainee a quadruple 12 player. This player still has atrocious in every other skill. The salary of this player would be about 44k.

Now we need someone to do his because the question is now, are those 6 pops in Sb worth the 2 pop loss in IS/ID/REB?

After Donovan develops and I go back to training bigs I am most likely going to do this (of course this may be in seasons time, but still). I'm trying to create players that will have lower salaries but still perform at the same level if not better than the regularly trained player. I honestly believe that a quadruple 12 player would be more valuable on my club team than a triple 14 player, but of course this can't be said as a fact unless I have successfully trained this type of player. Perhaps I will purchase a HoF NT/U21 prospect Canadian, and try this method out on him! ;)

Why not some small country like the Bahamas? :)

if you trained a Center who has triple 14's in the big man primaries, a 6 in SB, and 1's in every other skill that big's salary would be about 65k.

Now you take 2 pops from each of the primaries and add them to SB, to make your trainee a quadruple 12 player. This player still has atrocious in every other skill. The salary of this player would be about 44k.

Now we need someone to do his because the question is now, are those 6 pops in Sb worth the 2 pop loss in IS/ID/REB?

This question depends very much on the offense the opponent is running. If they have an outside offense, SB isn't that useful. As well as IS is pretty much a waste of money if your team plays RnG.
So I'm trying to say, it'll be hard to prove that question, but great of course if someone tries it :)
rubbercube

[quoteThis question depends very much on the offense the opponent is running. If they have an outside offense, SB isn't that useful. As well as IS is pretty much a waste of money if your team plays RnG.
So I'm trying to say, it'll be hard to prove that question, but great of course if someone tries it :)
rubbercube


Not specific/clear. SB isn't useful against the outside shooting? Or it does you no good to have SB on inside players, when they are running an outside offense?

1st way, I disagree
2nd way, That would depend on your defensive tactics you had slected now wouldn't it?

My bad I was unclear.
I meant that if the opponent runs an outside offense, high SB on any of your players doesn't prove as useful as it would if the opponent ran for example Look inside. Of course SB affects outside shooting too (I think I've seen even three balls being blocked), but it is way more useful inside, against driving layups and dunks and so on. Even the game manual says: "SB. --. Not very useful for perimeter players." I assume that this means SB is not very useful AT the perimeter, nor is it completely useless there. Of course SB can be very useful for guards too if you play MtM and the opponent's guards drive to the hoop.
When it comes to the big guys, I think SB is always useful for them (if we think about defence), because even if the opponent was runnin an outside offense, there will be many driving layups anyway. I'm just saying that it's more useful if the opponent has Look inside or Low post as their tactic.
Hope this was more spesific :)
rubbercube


Last edited by rubbercube at 6/6/2012 11:29:36 AM