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My newly purchased trainees!

Age: 18
Height: 6'1" / 185 cm
Potential: superstar

Jump Shot: inept Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: inept Handling: average
Driving: average Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: mediocre Inside Def.: pitiful
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: inept

Experience: pitiful

Age: 18
Height: 6'4" / 193 cm
Potential: superstar

Jump Shot: average Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: respectable
Driving: inept Passing: pitiful
Inside Shot: inept Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: pitiful
Stamina: awful Free Throw: awful

Experience: atrocious

My draft who i prob am gonna sell:

Age: 18
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: perennial allstar

Jump Shot: awful Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: inept Handling: average
Driving: average Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: mediocre Inside Def.: pitiful
Rebounding: atrocious Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: strong ↑

Experience: atrocious


prob train JS or OD first : )

Last edited by Kensei at 10/10/2010 10:19:59 AM

First guy is ok but i hate that OD. You can train that but will take a while maybe even the whole season to get to a good level. But after that his other skills are behind. Up side great potential and quite balanced guard skills, a team could get sucked in by that overpaying for him.

Second guy, my favourite out of all of them. Great skills, don't worry about passing at the moment cause it trains really quick. I had a 19yo with atrocious passing and 4 weeks of training passing it pops to mediocre. Thats a pop every time i trained it. It was because the other skills where all average and over and probably a high sublevel. Train OD and JR. Switch between the two until OD gets to proficent or JR gets to proficent. If you get a pop first time training OD then stop training till OD gets to prominent (rorating between JR and OD). Play him as a SG when training JR so it is one position. After that it would have taken about 8 or 9 weeks getting 48mins one position every week. Train JS till that pops once. Train one on one for the rest of the season. Remember ASW and every 2 game weeks train stamina or FT. HE is gonna be a great player.

Third guy is ok but again i hate that OD. Get that up 1 level then sell him, good potential and that OD pop will make him look more balanced sucking in some teams.

Goodluck with these players

I saw the poor OD on him... part of the reason I bought him was because the other trainee also has bad OD... actually I also wanted to test the height thing.. and see how fast the guard skills improve with shorter players :D

Giuliano Loyato (16449790) Point Guard

Weekly salary: $ 3 657

DMI: 9200
Age: 18
Height: 6'2" / 188 cm
Potential: starter
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: atrocious
Outside Def.: average Handling: respectable
Driving: respectable Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: atrocious Inside Def.: pitiful
Rebounding: pitiful Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: average

Experience:

The player may have bad JR but the other guard skills are very good, none under average. You can still train him but will always have lower JR.

I think player A only sells for that price because of potential. The guy you were giving advice to has respectable OD and only medicore on your guy, that's about 4 weeks of training just to get to that level. Not to mention the JS and driving (driving trains quick though).

Player B is the type of player you would want but sells for more than what you have said.

Keep in mind the guy can have a defence/passing PG where he doesn't take as much shots but sets them up instead. He will sell for more with more OD and passing

Shooting isn't everything. He can just focus on OD for the whole season and get that up to a very high level and sell for heaps. Also the elastic effect will cause JR to train faster so maybe it might take only 2 weeks to pop up. With OD training and keeping all guard skills balanced for this season next season he can focus on JR which should train quick with the elastic effect.

I had an SF, every skill over mediocre besides passing which was atrocious. When he was 19 i decide to train it. I got 4 pops in a row and went to mediocre in 4 weeks. Maybe sublevel was high i don't know. I then sold him for 3 million.

So i suggest training mainly OD and some passing, one on one and JS for the season then next season train JR and see what happens. You can not waste such a good player, he won't be the best PG, but he will be a decent one that can get him through div5 and maybe even div4.

You are only getting OD up to respectable? I have a player like yours, now 19 and he has all guard skills over mediocre and Od at proficent. Train OD the most this season then focus on passing and handling and driving.

How often in a draft do you get a player with guard skills over average besides JR? Starter potential does limit him but lets say he has all-time-great potential then training is not such a bad idea.

As for your guy training doesn't really slow down heaps once he reaches 20. Driving and passing will pop heaps even when he is 20 so train OD and JR and JS to good levels then focus on the other skills. If you get OD, JR and JS high enough then the elastic effect will do it's job when you train those other skills. Balanced only works for transfering as everyone would like a balanced player or if you play him as a SF and use PTB to really showcase his skills.

Some people think when he is 22 training is slow and wont get a pop but this is false. My 25yo just got a pop in OD and is now on sensational. I think once a guy turns 25 or even 26 then training will be almost useless, unless you want 1 pop in a skill for some reason.

My 19yo has already got promient OD and with 1 more pressure training will get prolific. The other skills are around respectable (some strong) besides driving. Once he is 21 or 22 i get driving into him and he will pop like crazy with elastic effect and the fact driving is the fastest skill to pop. Also driving and handling doesn't need to go past tremendous, i heard somewhere that after tremendous these skills don't really show in games.