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From: MrJ

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Date: 6/8/2025 8:28:32 AM
Swan River Serpents
III.2
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Second Team:
Westopian Tigers
So far I’ve had two “Franchise” players of note, one an NT Guard, one an NT Big. Based on success of the team in each era, I have to say the big. My guard (Hongjing) was arguably the better of the two and in big games could go on runs late in the the fourth of consecutive threes that stole games we didn’t deserve to win, but my team has consistently been better with role player guards and Lambkin (my big) then with role player bigs and Hongjing.
I suspect, though, that three $100k guys and two $50k guys beats out a $250k franchise, a $50k guy and three $30k guys for a similar price range.



If we are talking about players we have already trained...

...well, I have only trained one homegrown stud guard onto the Aussie U21 NT (Dogan) and others onto different country U21NTs. However, Dogan was far from a franchise player or even close to the franchise player I want.

As I noted, I have always liked the idea of building a NT-calibre SF all-rounder. As a manager of a Homegrown team now, I will finally get the opportunity to try and achieve this...

Well, at least it's a goal.

Home Grown; for teams who like a challenge!
From: Deano25

To: MrJ
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Date: 6/8/2025 5:53:51 PM
Heywood Big Dogs
II.2
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Heywood Lions
There is a manager who currently has a player on the NT, Charlieboy, who has Holley on the team, who seems to be doing that approach. He has another guy who is somewhere between a SF and.SG and Holley who is more of a SF/PF. These players are the “Franchise” players, but outside of them there are the guys who don’t get training every week but do get it regularly, so end up sort of SF builds. His team was very competitive in Div2 quickly, but he made the jump to ABBL when he purchased the best C in Australia at the time, Meehan, and dropped out of ABBL the following season as Meehan started to decline. A really good centre makes a huge difference. If you can carry the salary is almost go a gun C and a gun PG and have mid level SF players for all other spots.

From: MrJ

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Date: 6/9/2025 4:35:51 AM
Swan River Serpents
III.2
Overall Posts Rated:
340340
Second Team:
Westopian Tigers
There is a manager who currently has a player on the NT, Charlieboy, who has Holley on the team, who seems to be doing that approach. He has another guy who is somewhere between a SF and.SG and Holley who is more of a SF/PF. These players are the “Franchise” players, but outside of them there are the guys who don’t get training every week but do get it regularly, so end up sort of SF builds. His team was very competitive in Div2 quickly, but he made the jump to ABBL when he purchased the best C in Australia at the time, Meehan, and dropped out of ABBL the following season as Meehan started to decline. A really good centre makes a huge difference. If you can carry the salary is almost go a gun C and a gun PG and have mid level SF players for all other spots.


Yeah...I suspect this is where I will likely be, but I can dream about that perfect SF...

Home Grown; for teams who like a challenge!
From: Lappa

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Date: 6/9/2025 7:36:14 AM
Rakuunat
SM-Koris
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Dragoons Academy
Change Inside Shot to 1 and you have a future GOAT.

I have trained two NT level guards for my team but in the next project it doesn't really matter if I have homegrown guards or rim protectors in my team. Either goes and are expensive to buy later. Maybe nowadays those RP's are a bit easier to get so I might go with guards again.