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Some managers told me that in order for players to not drive to the basket too often, don't train DR high. Both for guards and bigs. Because they will have very little IS. Maybe I can train ball handling for the first time :)

Hello,

is 3-2 also a good option against motion and run and gun if i don't have any players that are particularly good defenders (at least both inside and outside wise)?

First you need to see if you got weaker defenders in any part of your box. A weaker player will be found time after time and used to score against.

Unless it's one of those games where a low skilled PF played at SF still manages to hold great outside shooters to sub-15% because sometimes that just happens.

Thanks for your opinion Falke, I noted them :)

If you want a player to be a scorer he needs drive. No matter if it's inside or outside scoring.
For example your big man you want to build: If you really give him some more JS/JR like I suggested, he can also have 12-13 drive. It won't hurt you.

I couldn't disagree more. I'm quite happy with the outside scoring I receive from my starting guards now that I actually can play them as intended rather than as trainees. They have 11, 9 and 11 driving respectively, and they're all at about 20PPG and 40+% 3FG against good competition. I'd be happier if the engine wasn't designed so that no matter how good you are at outside shooting and how bad you try to be at 2 point shots, you're never going to take even half of your shots behind the arc.

But on the driving thing, I've noticed way too often that when I've had guys with fairly high driving, they'd take a lot of driving shots. Which is fine, if they're also good inside shooters, but if they're not, you'd see a lot of plays where they have a clear path to the hoop, attempt a driving layup and miss. It was especially a thing I noticed in Princeton.