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From: E.B.W.

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Date: 1/15/2013 6:50:24 PM
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I believe it is better to train guards and SF's. Partially because it tends to be MUCH cheaper because of their salaries, but also because you can buy tons of bigs on the TL that are suitable (not the case with guards). Lastly, I think they are simply more fun to train because you get to train more than just 3 skills haha

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Date: 1/15/2013 6:55:22 PM
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Lastly, I think they are simply more fun to train because you get to train more than just 3 skills haha :P


That's what secondaries are for.

From: E.B.W.

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Date: 1/15/2013 7:00:37 PM
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Most people while training big men usually train inside shot, inside D, and rebounding (Aside from training one on one for a few weeks maybe). I am not saying all people, but that's just the majority. At least this is from my experiences and what I've heard from people...

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From: Big Dogs

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Date: 1/15/2013 8:15:34 PM
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There are people who do train secondaries on their bigs, but there aren't enough users doing so. And you are correct, this is the majority.

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I personally like training a SF (even though I train Big Men), and think training a SF is the best way to go. There's just a few things you gotta follow....

potential: for a SF you need very high potential to get a SF to where you need/want him to be. I like PAS (perrenial allstar) potential but more then likely you'd want a Superstar guy in it.

skills: can't have one jacked up skill at all, and if a skill is jacked up, it probably has to be one of the skills easier to train. for me, a hole in RB, JS or DR/HA is easy to fix. but skills like OD and ID are very hard to fix sometimes to where they can be efficient in that level. I usually go for a 5/5 guy to begin with at SF, not too low though.

time: you'd need to have a lot of patience training a 6'5'' to 6'6'' SF. It takes sometimes longer then others to train the players.


hope this helps


btw if anybody wants to train a big man, a Big Man with good secondaries are juicy on the TL and can give you a lot of dough.


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Date: 1/15/2013 8:55:51 PM
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If u r planning for the long term, train SF. it's difficult to train one and difficult to find a proper trainee but the salary increases the slowest. a world class SF only 50k or so salary and a 20k-30k SF is good enough for league 3 or 4, which is totall affordable. unlike training a big man whose salary quickly grows to 50k or above in 2-3 seasons and u have to sell him to get back little money while still struggling in lower leagues

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Date: 1/15/2013 9:01:59 PM
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Ah I see, so a SF would be more economical to train, but I just have to take my time since there are so many skills to train, and his height is in the middle meaning none of the skills will train faster than normal? Plus, why is it a 20-30k SF is good enough for D3/4? Is it because they can play inside and outside?

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Date: 1/15/2013 9:11:34 PM
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u r right. outside skills train slower than short guard. inside skills train slower than tall big men. but u can always decide whether u would want a outside focused or inside focused SF. usually people prefer shorter SF as more outside skills to train than inside, so perhaps u can buy 2 short trainees and 1 6'7 to 6'9 trainee.

u can search those 20k to 30k SF on the market to get a sense of what they are like. (ignore those with high JS, HA and DR but crap in all other skills)

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Date: 1/16/2013 12:30:49 AM
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I believe it is better to train guards and SF's. Partially because it tends to be MUCH cheaper because of their salaries, but also because you can buy tons of bigs on the TL that are suitable (not the case with guards). Lastly, I think they are simply more fun to train because you get to train more than just 3 skills haha

If you're only training 3 skills with bigs, you're doing it wrong.

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From: E.B.W.

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Date: 1/16/2013 12:35:28 AM
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I agree but unfortunately when you look at U21 big men and young centers, generally no other skills besides inside shot, rebounding, inside D, and shot-blocking are above mediocre-average, unless they were drafted with skills like that.

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