Depends on the type of patient I think. Yes passing is needed at all 5 positions. But the amount of passing per division can be talked about. Yesterday I ran patient just to tank the game and go to game 3 to get more cash.
(http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/85552904/boxscore.aspx)As you can see, that still didn't happen. Given the opponent was around the run of the mill d4 team, I can predict for USA D4 all you need is around 10ish PA amongst the guards and around 5 on the bigs. The focal pt of the offense wasn't even a pure scorer anyways. Has not too shabbby is with decent js jr. I'm not gonna say the skills cuz there may be a d3 team reading this and idk which league I'm going to yet. But that is one type of patient offense, "tough patient" as it is called
The other patient is a more calmer version. Like manon says you need passing amongst every one of your players. It is also good that they have handles too otherwise they will lose the ball or Chuck a bad shot at the end of the shot clock. You want a good scorer among the 2 or the 3 position with decent amount of js jr and decent dr and is. One of my former players had 12 js 13 jr and 6 is, he was able to put up 50+ points consistently in a tough d4 league. So consider that your start line in looking for a scorer
Just my 2 cents...I've ran patient offense a lot so I know what it can and can't do.
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