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Perhaps the stronger case for Salas over Soto is the difference in OD. PFs are slightly weighted in outside team defense and do have to defend outside shots, so Salas's 6 OD is much better as a PF than Soto's 2. But still, it's a long way until season 21, so a lot could change. Both or neither of these guys might be contenders by that time. We don't know for sure, but they're both top competitors for roster spots at this very early stage.

Nice job there. I assume that you know how to single-position train. Just keep pumping his primaries and if you need help or want to sell him, just let us know. Do you want to make him a C or PF?

No worries, cheers. I've trained up an Australian U21/NT C before (Dally Wilson) and a Philippines U21 PG, so I've got some experience training national players. I'll most likely train him up as a C for the reasons you guys mentioned above, and it fits well with the Australian 18yo I'm training too. Currently plan to rotate him on 3 weeks on the three big man skills.

My PF-prospect Kris Hunt got 3 pops week ago, his JS, DR and HN are now average :)

Nice job, keep training.

Kris Hunt ↑popped↑ in Driving from average to respectable .
Kris Hunt ↑popped↑ in Inside Shot from respectable to strong .

This is William Ortiz....the first Arizona Desert Storm draftee with real potential to be something special.


Weekly salary: $ 4 425
Role: draws a paycheck
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DMI: 36400
Age: 18
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: strong
Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: inept ↑ Handling: respectable
Driving: pitiful Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: pitiful Inside Def.: average
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: pitiful
Stamina: respectable Free Throw: respectable

Experience: atrocious

Weekly salary: $ 5 123
Role: rotation player
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DMI: 19700
Age: 18
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Game Shape: strong
Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: respectable
Outside Def.: mediocre Handling: mediocre
Driving: pitiful Passing: awful
Inside Shot: mediocre Inside Def.: mediocre ↑
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: average ↑
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: awful

Great prospect, just keep pumping his primaries this season, and train his secondaries during short weeks.

This is my player:

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Center

Weekly salary: $ 5 762
Role: regular starter
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DMI: 17800
Age: 18
Height: 7'0" / 213 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: average

Jump Shot: atrocious Jump Range: awful
Outside Def.: inept Handling: pitiful
Driving: mediocre Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: strong Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: awful

what do u think???

First of all, I think he looks good. I will also assume that you know how to single-position train. He can become a really good player with training. Unfortunately, with only perennial allstar potential, it will be very tough for him to make U21. Great player for your club, though!

Ho, leaguemate! Nice player pickup, for sure.

I broadly agree with what Big Dogs said. To expand a bit on what he said, your best shot of getting him onto the U21 team is to simply train only primaries, all the way from now, through his 21 year. If you look at the big men on this season's U21 team, they're all listed as centers. So, secondaries are nice, but in the arms race of U21 land, primaries rule.

Now your guy has a bit of an edge, already starting with 7 JS/JR, and 5 OD. Still, you should realize that if you pump his primaries nonstop, he'll be very expensive by the start of his 21 year, and huge when he's 22. So in the long term, that may not be ideal for your own club. Of course, you could then fill out his outside skills to make him into a pretty killer PF.

I'd probably do a lot of one positions IS, ID training, and then work in RB and 1v1 forwards in short weeks (would be nice to get that driving up a bit, even though I'm not a huge proponent of DR on bigs). Ideally a couple weeks of passing training would be good too. That will take away a bit from his primary skills, but keep his salary a bit more manageable, and he'll be a more effective player overall.