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Blocks and Look inside is good in this moment
2-3 it is too weak!
Stronger 2-3 will produce fear of playing look inside and low post

I'm not sure if that was ment as a remark or not, but since it was quoted later on I just want to confirm that the change indeed makes 2-3 stronger.

I have to disagree with your conclusion though, mainly based on historical arguments. The Look Inside dominance is something that has not been there for an extremely long time.

When R&G was the preferred tactic back in season 12 I bought 3 talented 18 year olds to train.
Back then, the elastic effect wasn't known yet, but the salary formula had been pretty much figured out and salary calculators started to appear.
I pondered a lot on how to train my players and what kind of team I wanted to build and came to the conclusion that the best way is to play look inside, because it's the most salary efficient way.
Of course, many more people came to that same conclusion and started training their players accordingly.

So, my theory is that as soon as the salary formula was figured out and managers could calculate which is the most efficient way to build a team, more and more managers started to train "look inside players".
Now that these players are all fully trained, we're seeing the look inside dominance in full effect.

You're right, the training and salary system didn't change. What changed was that managers figured them out and adjusted the way they played the game.

If you will increase the strength block skill and players with block 8 or 9 will be more effective in the defence then after two, three seasons when everyone will already have players with block 15 you will be reducing the strength of the block
Maybe increasing strength 2-3 tactics only is better?

In this moment 3-2 or 1-3-1 against Run and Gun is ok
but 2-3 against Look Inside is weak

Last edited by darkonza at 3/13/2013 12:06:30 PM

I actually believe the 2-3 functions fine against LI(it's just as you said, people have 8-9 blocking max). Where it is a little too weak is how much outside offenses and base offenses dominate it, where a 3-2 can hold its own against a LI.

if you look at the nba history the highest i guess a player average in blocks was 4.0 which was done by tree rollins ( i bet not much of you heard of him )

Huh, what?

Mark Eaton - 5.56 per game in 84-85. Tree Rollins' 4.2/gm season in 82-83 barely makes the top 10.

Mark Eaton is also the career average leader with 3.5/gm. Hakeem played longer and had more total blocks, but is third on the career average per game list at 3.09. Manute Bol is second with 3.34.

Last edited by Alec Burke at 3/13/2013 3:03:39 PM

I agree, if the 2-3 was meant to help against LI, it doesn't work
not to mention the litany of fouls perpetrated by the SF

Quick thought on forfeiting. I have a team in my league that announced in our forums that he is quitting. He now forfeits every game so everyone that plays him gets a +50 PD. He is in the opposite conference as me so everyone in that conference gets an automatic 50 point lead on everyone in my conference which is a huge advantage come the championship game if the records are the same. Is there anyway other way to deal with forfeiting?