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I don't really understand, you say you have good inside and outside shot, but you also say your team is not good at 3PT shooting. Do you mean you don't have a good 3P% in your games, or do you mean their JR skills are not high enough? Because low 3P% can have a different cause than bad skills.

Assuming it's just low 3P% and all things equal, I'd try Motion and Princeton (if your inside players have good flow skills, HA and PA). These offenses utilize your outside players best, while also involving your inside players. If you don't have high flow/driving skills among your players, I would think the ISO offenses are good too because you can have the 1 player with good flow generate open shots for the others if they cannot create their own shots. You can't go wrong with Base offense either.

Also, don't put too much weight into shot distribution; it could be that your defensive center gets many shots because the other players draw attention and dish to him when he's open, which is a good thing. Try to view some games to see wether he gets assisted or unassisted shots.

Disclaimer: keep in mind that without knowing all skills it's hard to give good advice.

Playing base offense and patient gives you a great idea of who is scoring what and the offensive habits your team naturally has...then after viewing the stats and or games you can better tweek the tactics going forward...but Princeton seems like the wisest choice...or motion if their passing rating are decent all across the board...just my 2 pieces of copper

IYO, by decent, do you mean at least respectable in regards to passing?

Strong or proficient

Hi guys. I've got a question regarding suitable tactics for specific player sets. I was thinking to examine this specific player set, so maybe anyone had an idea of best using those guys.
So I've got 10-14 PA on all Positions. 1-3 positions have 14+ JS and 13+JR, PF has 12-9 with 14 IS and C has 7-11 with 8 IS..at the same time SG SF have 12 IS as well..what do you think is the best tactic for this type of lineup? I know it depends on my opponents ratings and so on, so assuming my opponents defensive ratings are around strong-proficient when 1-1 and his Max outside def is around 10 and Inside def around 13 when playing corresponding zone defenses. I was thinking about princeton, since all of them have 9+ HA and 8+ DR and with their 10+PA flow should be nice. The weakest line would be my ID since C has 13 and two players are with 6 and two with 8 respectively. My defensive set would have easily been 2-3 zone, but what about offence? Because of their versatility I'm having hard time to choose offensive tactic, RG motion, Princeton, OI, all look tempting. Mostly the look more outside oriented guys, but I might insert a C with 18IS and 12-12 ID & RB, though with pretty low HA DR and PA. but 18-14-12-12 IS on 5-4-3-2 positions would have been nice too. Any ideas?

I'd say look inside.

I don't know what you mean with 14+/13+ JS/JR, but unless it's significantly higher it seems like your outside scoring isn't high enough for outside tactics to be worth it. Of course you can still use it to mix things up, and motion/princeton are good options because of the high passing and decent shooting of your bigs.

Otherwise outside iso would be good, makes use of the high IS on the SG/SF too.

I meant that PG SG SF had more than 14JS, namely 15-15-17 and 13-14-16 JR.

Patient finds the biggest JS vs OD mismatch...Isos don't.

it is possible to Play a princeton offense where your SF and PF are the main scoring Option, expecially if you have good passing on all your Players. you can mix it up with LI, because of the good inside scoring on 4 positions. makes you more unpredictable

also i have a lot of drives when i am playing princeton.

I guess it does make sense. I've used Princeton not very seldom and the "problem" has been the IS rating, cause I think it's too low than expected..Princeton still is more outside oriented offense, likely 70-30% ratio when compared to IS rating. At least that's how I perceive it according to my game ratings..If it was around 60-40 proportion that would have been much better and it should be killer tactic with multiskill players