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It's true, jump shot is trained like it's the most important skill in the game and it's really not.

So I've been reading this thread with fascination the past few days...partly because I've been in the middle of training a superstar guard and most of his guard skills are pretty even and I've been debating what to train next. [actually, at the start of this week, I was training jumpshot, but switched it to OD after reading the first part of this thread ;)]

My question then is this: what does your ideal guard look like? Obviously this will differ based on league, but a good generalized description would help those of us trying to figure out the basis of your argument.

I like guards who could play on both Guard position, and are only a bit specialisied. Which means a ideal SG maybe have 10-20% less Passing then my ideal PG, and thats also the difference in Shooting skills betwen them.

OD should always be on of the top skills of a guard, even when i am not with moutlinho that OD 20 guard are totally dominating, i am more with Wolph here let it close to the other guard skills. JS is also a high skill for me, and even at the PG spot the same or slightly higher then Passing, Jr is around 20% less then JS. Driving isn't that much important for me when i buy player, but it is an good training(especially when you do it off position) and you train it as a secondary nearly every week so you get it anyway. I rate Handling a bit lower then Passing and like 'em with secondaries.

Maybe you could follow my thought easier when i put them on a scala
, where 100% is the max skill:

JS: 100% JR: 80-90%
OD: 100% HN: 80%
DR: 70% PS: 90%

Secondary depends also a bit on the level of the player, my starting guards have an average close to 7 in that skills which i find pretty good, but the decline of the value of the skills isn't that big then at the primary skills because the skills of the matchup nearly don't change betwen the leagues.


PS: slightly up for a Pointguard on the cost of his shooting skills , or PS a bit down for extra shooting skills and maybe some D for the SG.

Last edited by CrazyEye at 8/5/2011 10:36:07 AM