Monay is right on this one:
1. If you train a lot secondaries on a big man, he will not make the U21 team. Look at the type of bigs we have on the roster: Trenton Funk, Wofford, Beaucage $136K salary. Then remember in the past we've had elite big men like William Sanders, Marcus Miller, Len Nielsen, all with excellent primaries. You can't afford to take time to train secondaries and compete with all the people training primaries.
2. If you train straight primaries, PAS builds will cap long before they can be useful to the U21 team. Look at those big men I listed, a PAS player would have been capped way before that, meaning they capped somewhere in their 20yo season. That means they won't be improving much if at all in their 21yo season if you did put them on the roster, meaning that top big men from other countries would dominate them at the end of the season.
3. A real-world example from the top of my head: Clayton Sikes
(19243863), pretty much capped at $80K salary when he was turning 21, only mild salary increase since then (~$10K in a full season of training, not much for a big man when every primary pop is at least that much of an increase in salary). How is a PAS big like Sikes (caps at $80-90K) going to compete with a big man like Beaucage or Funk ($120K+ and still plenty of room to improve)?
Is there anything else you need to know to convince you that there is virtually no way a PAS big man can make the U21 roster?
Last edited by jfarb at 6/21/2012 9:23:20 PM