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I presume its the guy at 20 years old ?Thats too old for what you are trying to achieve and his training slows as he gets older. Even then, he doesn't have great stats. Inside Def is pitiful and will be scored on a lot.

You're better off waiting till after the draft and find a good 18 year old trainee

Owner: Whitney Wildcats

Ineligible for playoffs.

Weekly salary: $ 3 262

DMI: 6900
Age: 18
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: star
Game Shape: average
Jump Shot: awful Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: inept Handling: average
Driving: mediocre Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: awful Inside Def.: respectable
Rebounding: mediocre Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: respectable ↓ Free Throw: awful

Experience: atrocious

this guy a good trainee? im not in like a super good league but like you think i good get him up to maybe 10-20 k salary? How long do you thnk it would take to get there?

For the 18 year old:

You probably have 4 good seasons to train him ( at 19, 20, 21, and 22). You have 40 weeks (10 weeks x 4 seasons), more if you're in the playoffs or 6th/7th place.

You could train him like this JS (wingmen) x13, pressure (pg) x6, OS (sg) x4, IS (c) x8, reb (c/pf) x9.

You could end up with:

Jump Shot: prominent Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: average Handling: proficient
Driving: respectable Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: prominent Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: prominent Shot Blocking: average

It's only an estimate.



Last edited by kLepTo at 11/29/2009 9:35:16 PM

I assume this player is on the transfer list?
Are you trying to train a small forward? Powerforward?
Either way his JS is a bit low, hist inside scoring is really low and he'll be 19 by the time you get the chance to really train him. I guess he's not a terrible prospect, but you can definitely find better at an affordable price (and certainly draft better). You can definitely get him up to 10k (under the soon to obsolete salary structure) if you pump a few skills up hard, but it's going to be tough to get his shooting skills up to a respectable level in the short term. I definitely wouldn't base my training around him.

You want at least three good, trainable players who you can either keep or sell at a big profit. I really think you should wait until after the draft to start worrying about long term training issues. You can either pick up one or two good trainees there or draft players who you can sell to buy the kind of player you want.