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Play Princeton, then have your trainee play defense where he plays defense best and then move other guys down (ex. C plays SF, SF plays PF, PF plays C.

I am not sure if Princeton will get the C outside shots at a high rate. The PF will, but I feel that the C may be a majority low block option. I would think Motion > Run and Gun > Normal focus > Princeton > Inside focus would be your best bet to get the Center outside opportunities. I also think a slower pace would help find the mismatch better. If the Center has high driving, a faster pace COULD be a better option, though.

Northern Ninja's defensive strategy is spot on. When playing out of position, I always make sure to rotate defensive assignments. This helps mitigate the damage done. Before the rotate defense option was available, it was not as easy to play a player out of position and still win.

Edit: I thought the original poster wanted to get his Center outside opportunities, but I now see he just wants advice on the best offense to run. Princeton is definitely a good option with his high handling and passing, as it will allow the ball to go through him a bit more than your standard offense. He won't score down low, but he will be able to kick out to other scorers. A good all around PF and Inside oriented Center is preferred for this option, though, and it appears you have it a bit backwards. Not enough recent experience with the offense to comment further.

Last edited by Alan Ellis at 8/29/2011 2:02:06 PM

Thanks for the replies. I thought there would be more people who have trained their SF like I'm doing at the moment:)
Guess I have to try motion and princeton at first.

My favorite to train is SFs and stretch PFs. They are difficult to train, but so valuable once you complete them. Your SF really dictates what type of offenses and defenses you can run properly and I prefer to build them myself than spend forever on the market trying to find the proper player.

I try to hide weaker trainees in games I either can't win, will win easy, or scrimmage games if neither option is available. I make sure to stagger my trainees so I have 1 or 2 at least that can play at or near the level of competition for my league.

Another trick is to train 1 Guard, 1 SF and 1 Bigman. Guard and SF play league games during guard training and SF and Bigman play league games during Bigman training. It takes quite a bit of planning to get this to work out properly, but it can be very rewarding to have well balanced players AND remain competitive during both league games.

I was going to do the same. Training defense up to 11 first. It will take me about the rest of the season. Because of that, my trainee will not allow me to play any inside offense (He's 7 at IS)
But I will take your earlier advice:)

I cannot hide weaker trainees, because they are all weak at playing Center. I can only hide it defensively when I change the match ups.
I'm not going to switch between guard training and center training. I just wanted to know which offense would fit the most for a center without center-skills but good guard-skills.

that's most probably Princeton. A good matchup at the C-Position could be quite dangerous there.

I hope so:)

Patient might be considered as a good tactic as well, as you have a passing PG and Patient searches for the best perimeter shooting mismatch on the court.

I did so last game and he put up great numbers. He still had a low 6.5 rating though.