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Great player, pity his potential isn't higher.

Heres my best rookie
Bill Rodriquez (14597111) Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 4 831

DMI: 37700
Age: 18
Height: 6'10" / 208 cm
Potential: superstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: awful Handling: atrocious
Driving: awful Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: proficient Inside Def.: strong
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: pitiful
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: strong

Experience: atrocious

He would be better, but he isn't my number 1 trainee. I am thinking of getting his driving and handling up along with my other player before continuing on the inside skills. I will probably train a little shot blocking because it will help speed up his training.

Ok please provide me with that infomation.

Mathmatically that means your saying age doesn't affect training? If you train one on one when he is 18yo hes driving, handling, JS will improve just as fast as if he is 21? Is that what your trying to say?

Sorry i may have misread what you said

What is your trainer level please? If level 4 i highly dobut this unless he had very high sublevel when you started to train OD. Did you train OD 6 straight weeks or did you train something that affects OD?

Ok please provide me with that infomation.

Mathmatically that means your saying age doesn't affect training? If you train one on one when he is 18yo hes driving, handling, JS will improve just as fast as if he is 21? Is that what your trying to say?

Sorry i may have misread what you said

I am not saying that age does not affect training but I am 95% sure its not the way most people think. For example the difference between training 18y/o and 21y/0 is rather insignificant so it doesn't really matter what you train first as long as you have some kinda of long-term plans. For exaplme if you have 18y/o with 7 in all guard skills and lets say you want him to have all guard skills at 14 by the age of 22 lets say. In this case it does not matter if you do OD or JR or PS first. In truth the faster skills will train even faster when the player is young which would compensate the slower skills later on. So the end result should be roughly the same. At least thats what I have seen from my team.

I completely agree.
The only difference though is from a psychological point of view. It is better to train the slower things first because it won't take as long to get pops. And so you will have steady progress. However, if you train the quick things first, then you will get lots of really quick pops which is great, but when you get to training the slow things it will be frustrating because it will take weeks to get pops.

I'm pretty happy with how my two rookies have progressed this season:

[France]
Ludovic Ligier (14781920)
Point Guard

Weekly salary: $ 4 088

DMI: 36500
Age: 18
Height: 6'3" / 190 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: strong

Jump Shot: mediocre Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: prominent Handling: proficient
Driving: respectable Passing: strong
Inside Shot: atrocious Inside Def.: inept
Rebounding: mediocre Shot Blocking: pitiful
Stamina: average Free Throw: atrocious

Experience: atrocious

[Italia]
Giocondo Smedile (14751937)
Point Guard

Weekly salary: $ 3 395

DMI: 33900
Age: 18
Height: 6'2" / 188 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: strong

Jump Shot: mediocre Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: prominent Handling: inept
Driving: strong Passing: strong
Inside Shot: awful Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: average

Experience: atrocious

Tanked my whole season post all star break to get this guy.


Weekly salary: $ 4 898

DMI: 0
Age: 18
Height: 6'3" / 190 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: inept Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: average Handling: mediocre
Driving: respectable Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: atrocious Inside Def.: pitiful
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: pitiful
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: pitiful

Experience: atrocious

:)

Weekly salary: $ 2 792

DMI: 0
Age: 18
Height: 6'3" / 190 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: pitiful Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: respectable Handling: pitiful
Driving: respectable Passing: awful
Inside Shot: average Inside Def.: pitiful
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: mediocre

Experience: atrocious


Second rounder surprisingly wasn't too bad either.

Fairly happy with my draft as I was picking about 12 or so. I'm in need of guards and an all-around small forward so Macken should be just what the doctor ordered. I'm not sure if I'll put them straight into single position passing to make use of the elastic effect for Macken, or something like one-on-one for forwards so I can get a bit more on my big men that I've been training previously. Probably the latter I guess, but I'd be interested in others thoughts, thanks.

Dana Muldoon (16930789) Point Guard
Weekly salary: $ 4 168

DMI: 0
Age: 18
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: star
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: awful Jump Range: mediocre
Outside Def.: average Handling: respectable
Driving: mediocre Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: atrocious Inside Def.: mediocre
Rebounding: pitiful Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: inept

Matthew Macken (16930802) Small Forward
Weekly salary: $ 4 809

DMI: 0
Age: 18
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: superstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: average Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: mediocre Handling: awful
Driving: respectable Passing: pitiful
Inside Shot: mediocre Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: inept