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You let a 66k big man play only against teams who play inside offense,and in that game you are forced to use an outside tactic that your adversary can easily defend?

Yes, I would play that guy basically ONLY against inside offense teams. But if I'd play in BBB (or NT games) that would mean, some 90% of all games! From the 32 team round 13 of the 16 winners used LI this year (not sure if it was exactly like that but just about).

And this I'd really like you to explain: How is my outside offense easy to defend if I have that guy on the court?

11 JS isn't much more than what the actual top PF have.This player would suck against the big mans that plays in BBB,because these big mans have pretty high IS and many times they have good JS(8-9)too.And for a team that isn't playing in BBB or a team that is aiming to win the first division of a national championship,is just a waste to have such a player

In addition to that,your hypotetical players can't be created,because training ID and RB you train IS too,and to reach 19 in ID and RB you bring your player to at least 3 IS with the conseqeunt growth in salary(and you should add the effect of cross-training too
And is impossible to build a player with such skills
to cover his deficiencies,because even if you could train him in IS,ID and REB to 19 level without raising IS too,and to do this you need to have a tall player;you don't have the time to train guard skills to that level with a so tall player

So basically,you are supporting your opinion using as argument things that can't realistically happen

There I agree about everything with you, but that is not an important thing. Yes, he couldn't have precisely those skills, but the idea is important: high ID, SB, PA and pretty high RB, JS, JR, DR, HN. And to train those guard skills, yes, it might be pretty slow, but with good starting skills I think its pretty much possible.

If that player had lower PA,JS,JR,DR,HN would become useless also for an outside offence,so you would basically have a player that is useless with ANY offensive tactic,and is useless agaisnt ANY offensive tactic of your adversary that isn't an inside tactic.And,because it's impossible for a big man with 19 IS,ID and REB to have the guard skills to such an high level,your player with high SB become automatically useless

And I know I'm quite weak in this discussion, saying that SB is a great skill, because there isnt any real evidence to speak for that, but thats just what I believe in. :)

I think I can sum this entire thread up:

1) People complain about not being able to stop LI
2) People complain that is all teams run, LI
3) It is known at this point SB is what stops LI driving shots, and helps against other inside shots
4) People then complain they have to pay too much for SB
5) Paying too much = it is not worth training somehow

Simply put, you cant have the best of all worlds. If you want to stop LI, make a sacrifice elsewhere and train SB. It is that simple. If you dont have SB, you will not stop LI more effectively than anyone else. It has already been shown that SB costs less than other inside skills. Make your decision to train SB or not, but dont complain about how hard it is to stop LI if you are not willing to train SB.

The problem here is that you can't stop LI beacuse 2-3 defense DON'T WORK,not because you need to train SB who is a waste of money.
This is a better sum,imho

Instead of searching solutions with the current situation we have on BB, you prefer complain. I prefer the red's approach, that's why I give him +1 :)