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If you suit up a SF that has low rebounding against another SF that's your typical "center @ SF", you will lose lots of rebounds.

It's definitely important, but prob not more important then ID and OD.

actually rebounds ain't a matchup thing, it is a thing like a fight from 5 guys for a ball. If the opposing SF had 10 rebounds and your SF 2-3, and you like to regulate the disadvantage it is also possible(maybe easier) to buy a better PF and the opposing team including their SF will get less rebounds.

actually rebounds ain't a matchup thing, it is a thing like a fight from 5 guys for a ball. If the opposing SF had 10 rebounds and your SF 2-3, and you like to regulate the disadvantage it is also possible(maybe easier) to buy a better PF and the opposing team including their SF will get less rebounds.

Yeah, but I think that's going to change in the game engine update, no?

Steve
Bruins

Small Forward could be the most critical player on the teams. There are some reasons to suggest that idea. First of all every manager in the game wants to secure 2 positions PG and C respectively. Big part of budgets are allocated to grab players playing at these two positions. So many of managers do not want to invest their money to SF. Secondly, There are very few complete SF in the game. Most of them are one way SF, having skills inside based or outside based. When you review even champion teams squad, they use PF or C in SF position. And lastly, really good balanced SF could be difference between win and defeat. Imagine a SF having great skills both in the defensive and the offensive play. He can support good team defence both inside and outside, can shoot from range, when needed also can score from the paint, with good passing he can appear as a secondary playmaker while PG is defenden by a solid defender. After you analyzed opponents starting SF, you can focus on their weaknesses.

After 13-14 seasons in that game, i started to train a SF for my starting 5, i will have a dream SF, all skills balanced:)

Have good times in game!

I don't know if its a case of managers wanting PG and Cs, more of a case that it is easier to train guards and bigs since you can do it in their normal position rather than SF which most of the training has to be done out of position. I believe that the data shows that SFs get very very expensive on the TL.

I completely agree on that, iti is easier to train PG or C than SF. And the height of the player has a big impact on the training speed. Whili it is easy to build inside skills for tall players as same outside skills for short players, it gets tough to train SF because training speed is lower because of height.

I've always felt the same as you in that the SF position is very important. That is why right now I have two 20 year old SFs that will be on the U21 national team next season. It has been a clear struggle to train them out of position for 3 seasons but when they are 22-23 and I can play them at their natural position, they will be beasts that I can keep for 8+ seasons.

No the SF isnt the difference. The real difference is that in a 3-2 Zone the opposing team will typcially shoot the majority of their outside shots against the worst rated OD defender so that could be your PG,SG, or SF. and with a 2-3 they will typcially shoot against your worst rated ID defender so that could be SF, PF, or C. So the real key is who's your weakest defender and how can you hide him the most. if a team has a terrible Offensive player sometimes playing man to man is best and putting your worst Defender on their worst Offensive player. If you have multiple guys with REALLY good defense then Zones any Zone works really well. Because they wont find a low rated person to shoot against so all shots will be defensively affected.

The REAL key is understanding how the GE works. In my time playing this i have NEVER seen a team shoot exceptionally well from 3 PT range nor have i seen a team even using low post or look inside take ONLY inside shots. So unlike most people who say play defense based on opponents weakness i DISAGREE. play defense to YOUR strength. If you change your D every time based on what offense they are running you will hurt your team. AGAIN THIS IS ALL OPINION!!!!