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Dear fellows,

I have a small experience in this game and in Basketball in general, but I would allready state the assumption that the beast NBA/BB teams must maximize the team effiency performance while limiting the salaries.

So I would like to know if it is worth to have 1 or 2 players in the big 5 with the only job of defending well and leaving the offensive tasks to the other players.

This may dramatically decrease the offensive note per sector but (1) if the opponent play a man to man defense and (2) if they take few shots, this negative impact would be negligeable.

generally speaking, it depends on the level of leagues you are in - the higher the competition, the more severe you could be punished for such a trade off.

I have used teams with only one offensive player and 4 pure defensive guys with success on Division II (league average salary around 450k) so far, but have definitely had more difficulties after being promoted to top league.

The more balanced approach on this strategy would be have players with high inside offense and high outside defense and vice versa, than switch defensive responsibilities on the defensive end - this does wonders in limiting salary but are extremely hard to train. You will notice how expensive such players on the market easily.

Can you show me what kind of ideal player profile would it be ?

You need an elite inside defender and passer to play at PG and defend at C and then at least 2 SFs, one with a lot of IS and enough OD to be played at PF and defending at SF or PG.

This is the easiest way. Take a guy with 17+ ID/SB, 15+ RB and around 10 IS with 18-19 PA and play him at PG. Tide of Fire had a guy like that who also played for the Swedish NT and he was a stud defending at C (also got several triple doubles in D1). Then you need a highly skilled SF to play at PF with say, 18 IS, 12 ID and 15-16 OD to defend at SF or 17-18+ OD to defend at PG.

The PG will take fewer shots than other players because he has no DR and will pass all the time.

As Bigeasy said, these are expensive skillsets. Especially the SF is very hard to build and requires appropriate height, potential and initial skills. The PG however is not that hard: PA will be a problem to train up to 19 or more without pumping HA/DR, but you mostly need inside skills really. So pick a quite tall guy , 6'9'', 6'10'' but clearly the higher the better, with MVP or better potential and then suffer while you train PA without elastics. I reckon for this type of player you need low-ish initial IS although not too low, 7/7 HA/DR are desirable and so is high OD.

Last edited by Lemonshine at 05/03/2018 19:53:32

Thank you for the precisions