From what's being said here it seems that the consensus from all the candidates is that a main obsticle to success is the lack of a 18/18/18ish big man. And that such a big man is not likely to be trained in the near future since foreign owners don't want to train the prospects, and USA I.1 is too competative for an owner to take on the financial risk and train such a player.
So, let's say that, without a big dollop of luck, such big men will not be a reality for the team anytime soon. My question to the candidates is,
1) What are the ideal G / SF prototypes to cover/compliment for our existing frontcourt deficiancies?
2) If such players don't exist now, how would you encourage their training by U21 grads or others so that they exist a few seasons down the line?
Not sure how I missed this question, sorry fewmit.
1) You could take the Silverbacks (NBBA team) approach to winning by absolutely suffocating teams with OD. He recently admitted he doesn't own a single player with greater than 10 ID, and everyone plays LI against him (I just did on Saturday and lost!) and yet he's won 2 straight Cups and is always in the NBBA playoffs. That's insane. So we'd need a slew of 20+ OD guards at the NT level. We already have a bunch on our team, so we've kind of done this already, and I think has helped cover our big men in some ways.
At the SF, it would be great to have an all-around player who was slightly better in big man skills to be able to plug in there, but right now we just don't have that. Velasco is close, but not really what I'm sayingt. It would be fantastic if we could train a player like that for our future.
2) Other than begging someone to bite the bullet and make a monster big man ;-) No, I would just encourage owners to make the types of guards and SF that I mentioned in #1.