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Hello everyone.

I'd like to talk with you about the Outside Defense Training.

Outside Defense is essential for Point Guards and Shooting Guards, but you can only do with Point Guards a monoposition training, and if you want to include your Shooting Guards in this training, you have to train players of two different positions.

So if I am right, that means that Shooting Guards train less effectively outside defense than Point Guards?

I read once in a thread that monoposition training gives you a 100% training, two-position training 70% etc....


So what is more effective?
Training a 18 year old hall of Famer Shooting Guard for 3 seasons in Outside Defense, where he gets aproximately 70-80% training, or training him for 3 seasons in Outside Shooting?

Good point. But the training-system is different from what you explained.

Training your players bi-position is, indeed, much slower than training them mono-position.
Now, to be more precise, SGs don't train slower than PGs when it comes to OD. What is important here is to make sure that, in order to train your guards most efficiently, you give them 48 minutes of playtime on the PG-spot and give them mono-position training. This is the case, not only for SGs, but for each and every position (there are some exceptions though; GS, FT and Stamina can only be trained as a team-training; Rebounding, One on One, and JS can only be trained bi-position).

So, in order to train your SG most efficiently in OD, you must set him up on the PG-spot for at least 48 minutes per week and train him mono-position. What I'd advise you, if you want to train your SGs (regardless of their potentials), is to set them up as PGs for as long as you want to train them in OD. As soon as he's reached the desired OD-level, set him up on the SG-spot and train OS.


To make things clear: What influences the training-speed of your players is not their best position as shown on their profiles, but the number of minutes they play on the spot you decide to train, and whether you train them mono or bi-position (training your players bi-position is not recommended).
The length of your player is also very important! The taller your player, the faster he'll train inside skills (ID, IS, Reb and SB). On the contrary, the smaller your player, the faster he'll train in outside skills (OD, JS, JR, PA).




Last edited by Mister Q (Luxembourg U21 Manager) at 4/28/2011 1:24:10 PM

Ahhh, now all these things are clear to me.
That means that if I let my Shooting Guard playing as a Point Guard, he'll get the Point Guard training, even if this is not his "true" position.

Thank you

Exactly, you got it!


PS: As announced in this thread (182905.3), I'll set up a training schedule for each spot to help Luxembourg trainers training their players most efficiently. This schedule will be available this week-end.