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Hey mate,
Welcome to the game. You willl get a draft for this current season which will give you 3 decent guys (hopefully). Once you have the draft I would have a look through your players and sell some or fire some until you get to having 12 or so players.

You should decide on what you want to train, so either guards, small forwards or big men. Small forwards are hard to train so I wouldn't suggest doing that to start with. I would recommend starting with training guards. So try and get 6 18 year old trainees with decent outside defense, jump shot, jump range, driving, passing and handling. Those are the skills that you want to focus on for guards. Although focus more on the outside defence to begin with. That will give you 6 players and it won't cost too much. Next, try and buy some older guys (27 years and older) that have decent stats for your other positions. You want to do this because they will be cheaper and have good starting skills that you can use to win games while you train up your players.

So:
Get 2 small forwards, 2 centres and 2 power forwards that are old, cheap and have decent stats.
Get or keep 6 18 year old trainees that have skills suitable to guards.

Don't try and train guards and big men at the same time. Pick one or the other.

Sorry I just read you don't want to buy senior players off the market, I would recommend that you still buy some senior players while you get started, then sell them later once you have some trained up players because otherwise it will be too expensive.

Wait to see what you draft before you commit, either train bigh guys (which are easier as you just rotate training IS/ID/Reb) or guards which are harder as you need to train more things. As a beginner I would look to train realistically 5 players 48+ minutes a week you dont want to fall short a minute or two either as it makes a difference. With good minute management 5 is not difficult to do. You want 5 guys that are 18-20 years old as they will train better than older players.

I agree with both. Wait till after the draft and just buy young at one side (big or small). Don't be afraid of the old guys because you can get some okay guys cheap (because no one pays a lot for guys on the down side of their career). Also, don't think you need to get guys with MVP potential. Save your money and get people with lesser potential. The high potential guys are expensive when they are 18 and if you built them up well you wouldn't be able to afford them and would have to sell them anyway (salary's can go up quick in two season's). Good Luck.

Wait to see what you draft before you commit, either train bigh guys (which are easier as you just rotate training IS/ID/Reb) or guards which are harder as you need to train more things. As a beginner I would look to train realistically 5 players 48+ minutes a week you dont want to fall short a minute or two either as it makes a difference. With good minute management 5 is not difficult to do. You want 5 guys that are 18-20 years old as they will train better than older players.

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Well said, for a new player you dont need players with high potential.

Hi I am in the same situation. A new team. Almost all players are horrible except two guys and they are both 31. So I have taken a really long term view. Train this pack of worthless duds into a lean, mean, basketball machine. I really don't think you can train both bigs and smalls at the same time but then again I am going to try some kinky SF action this season depending on the draft. My suggestion is see what you get in the draft. Try to get 5 players, age 18-19, potential at least star and the correct height (this is actually VERY important and often forgotten by us noobs) and then train them. Try to work on the core skills the most but a well balanced player is both cheaper and trains faster.

Be carefull as SF's are the hardest to train. I do not recommend you training those if you are a beginner, the training is a little slow and you might get impatient or worse frustrated. For beginners I recommend training tall guys as you just get 5 18-19 year olds and rotate IS/ID/Reb.