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Here I'm neglecting the guard's skills as secondary, and considering the IS, ID, RB and SB as secondary skills. If so, I'd say ID and IS are the two most useful skills for point guard.

What should be the optimal height for training a point guard ?

Well shorter the better, there is no doubt about that. So the question would rather be like...what's the height at which a player shouldn't be trained to be a PG?

There are really nice PG who are tall enough to be trained as a bigman. So really there is no right answer, but I would say a player with height 6'9" / 206 cm or higher shouldn't be trained as a PG.

For PG, I would train on the basis of age. Training mainly depends on skills here.
For an 18 year old, it is best to train skills that take time to train which are mainly OD and JR. Then JS and passing should be trained. Finally driving and handling can be traimed when the player is about late 20-21.
I believe that the skills in order of importance, not training order go in the order:
1. Passing
2. OD
3. JS
4. Driving
5. JR
6. Handling
As driving and handling are bot very important and easy to train it is best to train them last, especially for the U21 team. Though I don't consider JR to be that important, it and OD train slowly so it is best to train them first. OD should be trained more thlhan JR. Passing and JS are extremely important primary skills so they should be trained.
After 21 the skills should be rounded up and improved in all areas especially JS, OD and passing.

What is the significance of potential over training ?

Higher potential players can be trained longer, resulting in better skills. So that means when training a player for NT, one would want to have at least superstar potential. This also depends on countries because some countries are more competitive than others, but generally superstar potential is like the lowest boundary for an NT player (but there are some with perennial allstar (we have that in India NT)).

Superstar is the key and is what you really want to make a player than can dominate the IBPL and be on the NT. However even with allstar potential you can be an U21 star and make a player who can be a great backup in the IBPL so they are far from useless.

As for trainers, yes it may only be a 2% increase from level 5 to level 6 in your trainer but there is a multiplier effect. I assume that you are training three guys and they would be getting at least 10 pops a season, that is a minimum of one more pop a season over the three trainees. Over three seasons they should all have at least one more pop.

Compared to a level 4 trainer the effect is much more dramatic. They should all be getting at least one pop each for every two seasons.

So lets say you started training three 18 year olds and used a level 4 trainer. By the end of their U21 season they may all have sensational OD. If you had used a level 6 trainer they could all have had wondrous OD. Quite a difference if you think about it that way.

And this is the conservative view. Many have stated that changing from level 5 to 6 is worth one pop per season! There is no doubt high level trainers are great.

Very true. The effect of higher trainer within 1 season is pretty small and may not be evident but over the course of a few seasons it is definitely beneficial, specially when training for an NT! Great post. +1 :)

What is capping ?

A player is said to be capped when giving training to this player results in no improvement because he has reached his potential as a player. The player can still improve, but just becomes RIDICULOUSLY slow to train. A skill that used to take 2 weeks to pop may take like....forever to pop once the player caps.

What is elastic effect/cross training and what are their influence on training ?