1) Which skills did you consider important, and what were you trying to create?
most important rebpounding, inside shot and depending on tactics insideshot.
Second category Passing and a "bit" handling.
Third category Jumpshot(especially as a PF, on C i think it is an advantage if he had it, but he use it pretty rare)
Fourth blocking, because to get it to the heigth where it might be usefull(1,5 of opponent insideshot, the salary is to big or should we forget about id then that those players actually shot the ball that he could use this skill)
2) Have you tried playing your big man at SF or a guard position on offense but C/PF on defense? Did it work?
It works, the main problem is that Sf is a tough defensiv position, where you need lot of OD - so you need a PF /C who could defend outside else you get punded from outside. So for the player himself it works good, he could create in offense and defend like before but you need a very strong SF to compensate his missing inside and still to able to defend on the other end. With guard it is easier to move to the three in my eyes, because creating an outside SF is a bit easier or at least more common(so it is more easy to buy him)
On Guard position i didn't try, because i tried to train my sf in inside skills - for training bigs the solution to play him on sf is pretty pintless because JS and driving is trainable on PF too. Handling three position is in my eyes weaker for handling training then one on one for two so maybe you get the possibility to train OD which isn't totally pointless but takes pretty long which didn't get better if you train three position(and good OD on guards helps a lot too, if you have weak centers there at least i am not scared with my OD 1 center on court)
3) If you started to train a more balanced big man, how did you use him tactically? Did it work?
my performs well as a PF, but he still needed high inside skills and ain't cheap, maybe with 10 skill less in blocking he would be better on orice/effort.
Last edited by CrazyEye at 3/24/2010 6:06:43 AM