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I've contacted the manager of DECCEN CHARGERS.
Hopefully he'll stick to the game...

Already sent mail for him...and yes hopefully some manager will buy him not a trader (Sur)

news about our hall of famers...one got to good manager that planed to a make SF out of him...I think thats good for India NT and good for the long time run. he will not be a star in the U21 team

I've contacted this number just now. Hopefully he'll reply and is willing to train him.

But if you're looking at such players why not Farooq Ishtaq (18250492)

Weekly salary: $ 4 189
Role: rotation player
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DMI: 27200
Age: 19
Height: 7'2" / 218 cm
Potential: perennial allstar
Game Shape: respectable

Jump Shot: average Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: atrocious Handling: inept
Driving: atrocious Passing: respectable
Inside Shot: prominent ↑ Inside Def.: strong
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: mediocre
Stamina: mediocre Free Throw: awful

Experience: atrocious

Hmm he looks alright. But he's little behind for 19...and is almost turning 20.
I suggest that you train his RB and ID.
In my opinion, the training procedure should be...
2 weeks of RB
2 weeks of ID
1 week of IS
1 week of SB
and repeat this cycle for the next few seasons.
Btw I've never trained a big-man in my BB career, so if any of you have a better procedure, please do make a note. It'll help Jay_m and myself too :)

With the correct training, he should be able to make it into U-21 NT, but it'll be when he's 21 I'd think.

You've trained him well this season, too bad he is 19. If you got his ID up to sensational+ then he could be useful for the U21 team.

Definitely try to train an 18 year old next season :)

Here's my guy:
Kaliranjan "Ram Jam Salad" Selladurai

Age: 18
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: allstar
Game Shape: strong

Jump Shot: respectable Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: proficient ↑ Handling: strong
Driving: awful Passing: awful
Inside Shot: mediocre Inside Def.: strong
Rebounding: inept Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: inept Free Throw: mediocre

I'm pretty happy with the way he's progressing, he's actually my "worst" SF trainee. I bought a superior trainer last week ($16 000 salary for $215 000) so I expect plenty more pops next season.

He has a bunch of high sublevels (JR, PA, IS, ID, RB). He'll have 12 OD and 9 ID by Allstar break next season. I don't know the skills of the U21 players but hopefully he can earn a spot sometime next season.

Last edited by Johnson at 4/13/2011 9:03:50 AM

WHA!? You bought a superior trainer only for 215k? I know that during this time the trainers are sold cheap but I didn't expect them to be sold this cheap...I bought 15.5k trainer 2 weeks ago for 312k...I should have waited a little more :P

But remember that the difference between lvl 4 and lvl 5 trainer is not very large. People say that the lvl 5 trainer gives you extra 2-3 pops over the course of 2 seasons. But ofc depending on the sublevels, I'm sure it can give extra 4-5 pops.

Now your player. He's improved compared to the beginning of this season. Are you planning to make him a well balanced SF or outside oriented SF or inside oriented SF? It'll take quite a lot of time to make him into a well balanced SF, so I don't wecommend this option. plus his potential is allstar, so if you're thinking of training him for a long time, then you should focus on either outside or inside.
It will take about 6 weeks to reach 12 OD and probably 2 weeks to reach 9 ID. Whether you want to make him inside or outside oriented player is up to you. But if I were you, I'd probably go for outside cuz his height is not too bad for guards, and his guard skills are better (except his JR).
I hope you're considering to train his JR as well. Better to train that when he's young cuz it takes ages to train at older ages.
Btw this is my SF, who's on the U-21 NT. I'm eventually thinking of making him a SG, who can sometimes play as SF, when using outside focused tactics. Currently in U-21, he plays at SF position.

Jump Shot: sensational Jump Range: strong
Outside Def.: sensational Handling: respectable
Driving: proficient Passing: average
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: strong
Rebounding: average Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: strong Free Throw: strong

He's turning 21 next season, so it'll be a pain to train his JR...i got him as my draftee when I didn't know how the training worked, so i wasted half a season of training. But he's come a long way and he's not doing that bad.

some points I want to make

-If you are training player, aim for some level and dont stop train that skil until he reach it. what im saying dont train 2 weaks that 2 weeks another training. The best managers in iceland at least follow what i said.

-You dont need to train SB for any player...thats wais fo weaks in training. at least when player is young and you want the main skills as high as passable.

-training an SF is beautiful thing:) but if you want balanced you have to have MVP poteintal or higher...if the player has lower poteintal than you should focus on inside or outside SF and make the hight say what he will be.

Tungi your player is good for SF at U21 level both on inside attack and outside. in the future he will be SG or SF with outside tactic in mind as you said.

This is just my point of view :)

Your guy is great. He doesn't look very Indian, was he adopted? :P

I got lucky with that trainer purchase. There were less than 400 managers online, and I swear the auction was only extending by 1 minute for every new bid. I monitored the auction of a superior trainer that was purchased about 30 minutes after my guy, he was 19k and sold for over 400k :)

I'm training OD this week. Then ID next week and he will pop to proficient (I'm letting my opponent win game 2 of the finals so I get 3 training games). Next season I'm training Pressure for the first 6 weeks (he will reach sensational OD after 5), Rebounding for the Allstar break, then 2 weeks Inside Shot followed by 2 more weeks of OD. Depending on my playoff situation I'll train RB and IS for the last 3 weeks of the season.

For his 20 y.o season I'll train 1-position stuff again, for the last time. I haven't decided what I want his defense to look like (probably 14 OD and 12 ID), so I'll just be rounding him off with OD, ID, PA, JR or whatever.

I'm going to train him 3 seasons on single-position skills, so when he is 21 he will be able to play SF/PF for my team and I can just blast Jumpshot and 1on1 for forwards until he caps. I'm guessing he'll cap sometime during his 5th season of training, and I will have a great player (3 actually) ;)

But then I'll have to sell one or two of them :(

Four emoticons in one post... that's got to be a record for me.