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With less ID your player could end up defending less shots. He will be to slow/weak to defend his opponent which could result in open shots. It's true that your guy could block more shots if you give him +2 SB with -1 ID. But I would prefer a big which defends 15 shot attempts/game rather than one which only defends 10 shot/attempts/game.

This is the trade-off that would be interesting to measure at a given level of OD vs Flow. Then if we have a rough idea of how much an extra point in ID increases the successful defense (by reducing the unguarded shot overall number) and how much SB does the same (by reducing the FG% on guarded shots), we could have a much better idea of what builds are preferable. Granted, SB also gives a small contribution to reducing the number of unguarded shots too, trains probably faster, it's cheaper in the salary formula and it should become increasingly beneficial at higher OD levels.

You are missing a very important point here. SB alters shots. Your player could finish a game with 0 blks, but hold his opponent to 0-10 shots. The number of blocked shots isn't that important, it's the defensive benifit which counts. I have two bigs with a shot blocking ratio of 35%.
The first one has 5% shooting foul, 30% altered shots and 30% failed actions --> the opponent scored.
The second one has 0% shooting fouls, 53% altered shots and only 12% failed actions. You see, they have the same % of blocked shots but different impacts on my defense.