Law - just read the thread Small Forward - the quest for the perfect player. One of the better threads in a long time. You really managed that thread and got some great intel within but the true genius was mixing in the comic relief of Glass. That and my French pressed coffee have totally made my morning. You're a stud.
Thanks for the compliment! Glass just loves to throw his two cents in...so much speed training.
I was looking to validate my reasoning, but anyway it seems like a good study. I mean look at Silverbacks has just sold Ferruccio Trevelin for $ 4 000 000.
These guys are highly valuable. The problem is you have to wrap up a ton of cash in them. Either through internally training them or buying them trained.
Heck, Silverbacks had to sit on 4M cash for three seasons while training the guy. Not exactly ideal IMO. Not terrible but I guess when you have the cash and nothing else to spend on...which I believe is important to think about going forward. There are a lot more rich teams then there were each season. I just believe most teams after building their stadium will generate cash most of the time. Therefore we will probably see inflation the next few seasons.
But anyway everyone I have bid on lately I have run into someone else that wanted them equally as much--especially in the PF/SF realm. I might just have to go all "Lethargic" and buy some cheap assets. We'll see.
It was a fun thread. I have tried to cut back on engaging with Mr. Glass because he patently refuses to learn from anyone's advice and he's such a special kind of wrong that it is painful to watch at times.
I kind of think that the way to go is to build the players that are unique and expensive and then try to treat the other positions as ones where you can go out and buy guys that are more common builds. I still haven't really ever trained a really good SF, though, and it might not be feasible to do so at this point, but I suppose maybe that's my goal for the next few seasons.