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Basketball manager and basketball coach are not the same thing. Going by your definitions, GM=daytrader and coach=basketball manager. In real life it does not work like that. I have played basketball in a national league in Europe, I have also taught kids for a couple of years before I busted my knee. Economy, roster composition, salary decisions are all things only a GM would manage, not a coach. Training, tactics, depth chart are things basketball managers do not decide, the coach does. They are different jobs. However in this game, as a GM, you also take over some of the coach responsibilities and that's where the confusion arises.

If you see this game as a "pure GM game" don't you agree that we shouldn't even be talking about tactics or training, which is the topic of the thread? The truth is you can't just classify this game with a clear cut real life terms, since it is just a game drawing elements from various aspects of basketball: the game, the coaching and the management, without being exactly any of them.

Now back to tactics please. The OP asked if we believe there are other viable tactics among the "balanced" range. Marin Said LI/LP are still overpowered and OD is overpowered (in stopping 3 pointers), so there might be some changes in the future which improve outside/balanced tactics. Since you alternate BO to LI/LP you surely have something to contribute to the discussion. At least if you think your team performs better in BO rather than PTB or II, which is something many would probably not agree with.

Why are you so eager to put words in my mouth that I didn't say? Please forget the personalities and stick to a discussion of BB. Thank you.

Base offense is dead in my opinion.

The idea behind tactics is to give your team an advantage such that if u had a slightly worse team on paper, tactically you could give your team an advantage.

With everyone playing M2M defense the only way you would win with BO is if ur team is better on paper. Ie your best players will beat his best players. (Generalising a bit here).
Which is fine but tactically totally useless.

I totally agree with you. BO is an inferior tactic even when only considering balanced tactics. If you have favourable matchups PTB, II and Patient would give you an even bigger edge.

That's why I invited someone who routinely alternate inside with it to explain why he chooses BO over other balanced tactics since this was the focus of the thread from the opening post. Maybe there's something we're missing.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 2/18/2015 7:59:05 PM

i think its a default position that people take, because they don't want to use an outside based offence, and have not experimented with II or OO and obviously don't want to use Princeton.

thus this leaves them with BO, Patient, or PTB

PTB tends to highlight some stamina issues, so people play safe and go BO.

That's what I used to do anyways. had a fair bit of success with OI recently. Probably be giving II a go during my Private League games, see what benefits I get out of that.