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Inside players salaries are cheaper(Guards - Forwards)

forwards is not cheap whatever you wanna play in or out.

guards yes you can build with low salaries but not for winning teams. cheap guards it's not enough in strong DIV1 or B3.

you can build low salaries LI to get promotion to DIV1 or play DIV1 but it's not enough to win trophy.

The point is:
IS 20 for PG or SG is for free
JS 20 PF is extremely expensive or impossible

So it is “cheaper” an LI team than a Motion team

Alonso never said that an LI team was cheap. But it's not a stretch to say that every team naturally turns into an LI team right now, due to the limitations of the salary and potential formulas.

It used to be that training a HoF players primary skills to the cap took a long time, at least for backcourt players. This acted as a natural counterbalance against loaded IS/secondaries, because better primaries are obviously preferable. But now we have youth trainers and the gym supercharging a players development curve, so they approach the cap with several seasons to spare.

So because IS costs nothing in the PG/SG/SF salary formulas, and not much more in the respective potential formulas, managers are wise to spend the extra time they have boosting IS (and for PG/SG, ID as well). This isn't new logic, but circumstances have allowed it to become the meta to the point where certain managers may now look at 15 IS on a guard and say "bah, mediocre!"

Of course you have a point too, players with high TSP for their salary are a lot more expensive to buy than less rounded out counterparts, so clubs can't necessarily afford an entire team of top NT level talent, even with the merchandise subsidies.