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As the title suggests i have lofty ambitions of making one of my players a NT SF. Here are the stats of the player in question.

Jump Shot: mediocre Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: inept Handling: mediocre
Driving: inept Passing: inept
Inside Shot: strong ↑ Inside Def.: strong
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: mediocre

He is 19 with HOF potential & 6ft 2in I figure by the time he is 25 he can be a NT player.

First of all am i wrong in thinking he can be a NT guy.

Secondly what do the more experienced managers suggest as a good training plan. At this point i am training his inside skills. With IS for 3-4 more weeks. 1 week of Reb training over the allstar break the ID for the rest of the season.

My plan initially is to get him to tremendous in JS, JR, OD, IS & ID then seek the opinions of whoever is NT coach at that time to see what direction they want him to go in there.

Please let me know what you think and if there are any holes in my plan.

Also i have an exceptional coach and pretty much always plan on training at 1 position with the exception of the occasional reb week and when i do JS.

Thanks in advance for your input.

Ljubo

Joel O'Connor (24058471)
Point Guard
Weekly salary: $ 3 028
Age: 19
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: MVP


Wally Gould (22818652)
Center
Owner: Red Star Bayswater
Weekly salary: $ 5 016
Age: 19
Height: 6'2" / 188 cm
Potential: hall of famer


Looks like you have two great young players. With that potential, determination, a lack of caring about wins and a high level trainer you can do it. But you have a VERY low base to begin from.

O'Connor was bought as a complimentary player to fill a training slot and sell off later for a profit. Gould is the real focus. He's had a week of ID & Reb without a pop in each of those when i had a superior coach so he should be close to getting multiple pops.

Should i be ignoring any skills for NT development and focusing on others? Is D more important? Should I do that first? I have quite a few options given how much there is to do with SF's.

He will never make the U21 team and making the senior team will take probably more than six seasons of training so really it doesn't matter. However the traditional advice is do defence as soon as you can so he fouls less and has his minutes messed up less often. It also means he can do something useful for your team a lot sooner.

The spanish 23 year old might need some training

Definitely a 4th priority.

SFs take a long time - this guy will take aaaaaages to get his ID up. However, if you stick at it, he'll be a gun player for your team and his salary won't be so horribly monstrous that you'll need to sell him once you finally get there.

I bought gould as an a8 yo midway through last season and have trained up his inside skills since. He's had about 7 pops so far and i upgraded to a higher level coach only about 4 weeks ago.

I'm in it for the long haul with him and figure by 25 he should be pretty awesome.

is there any difference in training speed between JS for guards & JS for forwards?

sorry if this floods your thread Ljuboo

helloo?