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Ever heard of the triple threat ? If you can score inside, it forces your defender to step away from you and give you room to prevent driving, which helps your long-range shooting. Keeping defences honest is the basis of basketball, yet some of you think a guy who can only shoot will still be wide open...

That may be true, even in BB, but why take the choice away from the manager? If a manager wants to develop crappy players with high salaries, he should have the right to do so.

The ratings don't mean anything. In game I think having IS is really useful.

Congrats training SFs, it's true it's very hard. I like it that you tried to play the game against the mainstream.
But your team was successful from the begininng. Two promotions in your first 3 full seasons doesn't look like a struggle, you did well enough :)

I don't know what is exactly advancing very fast. Now that the game is more mature, it's not possible to advance as fast as before. Even in lower leagues, several teams are at their salary cap and at a bottleneck point, they may need more rounded players at some point to make a difference. They are at their salary cap, they can't continue hammering on primaries anyway.
It may take them longer than before but it's already longer than before.

Cross-training is tiny, there will still be a lot of beloved crappy players and they will continue to dry out the GM's money. Guaranteed.
Untrained skills will remain crap if they started crap.

Congrats training SFs, it's true it's very hard. I like it that you tried to play the game against the mainstream.
But your team was successful from the begininng. Two promotions in your first 3 full seasons doesn't look like a struggle, you did well enough

There was no one in division III Canada back then. I appreciate your positive spin but promoting from an (almost) bot league is not exactly worth celebrating. ;-)

I dont mind the training change that much but i wish they would have just changed it so i could just say pick 3 people on my team to train od that week no matter what position they are playing. Or if younwould rather 2 position train you could pick 5 to 6 players to train in what ever. That would have been the best change.

That's exactly the problem. In the long run, it's really going to do absolute crap in terms of "cross training". The 10 percent distribution is far too small to actually make a significant difference in secondaries. That said, it takes several weeks off of primary training.

Go to sleep, wake up, and 150 posts. Wow.
I haven't read the whole thread but wanted to reply to a lot of people who said things like when I train OD I never want REB to improve ever. When you train OD in real life, unless you have the worst coach in the world, you train until the end of the play, which ends with a defensive rebound. If you do not block out at the end of your defensive play, you are not playing defense until the end of the play. Cross-training is far more realistic than not. Basketball is a fluid game, or should be when played correctly.

When you train jump shooting, you are also working on handling and driving. How? well, most JS training involves a gu making a jab step and cut to a spot on the floor( the building blocks of driving) catching a pass form another player (handling and passing) then shooting the ball.

The other thing is that people knew this change was coming and now are upset about it. I don't know how many times it has been said, but making long term plans in this game is risky because things change, as the game is just out of its diapers and starting to toddle.

I train mulit-skilled players anyway, so I'm loving the change. Oh, and SF training just got easier.

They could have done a slow down in primary skills development after an specific level is reached, but this is a mistake...
10% is a big deal. And they did not specified if this applies for all kind of training, even for team training.

Why would someone use two/three position training if you are going to have 1 or 2 pops less per season? Why are the BB mocking of their users with a ridiculous story about trainers going to "Hogwarts" school of magic that trains random skills and reduce the effects of current training?

We are going backwards.