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Take defence into account when buying a player, not just offense. Even at a price of a lesser offensive player, buy the one that can defend well. OD for gaurds, ID for C and PF, SF can be inside oriented, outside oriented or even one with both ID and OD can do great things for your team. While I was in league 4 here in Israel I used to only buy players based on defence, because I couldn't afford those highly skilled offensive players. It has done me well enough. I don't work that way any more, I don't recommend you to, but take defence in much higher regard than you did until today.

I bought Santacana for 350,000.. hoping he resells for a huge profit once his percentage gets above 90% of sales..Will buying skilled defensive players with abysmal offensive skills hurt my team?

Yes, because they will stop the other team, but will not be able to score themselves. You need a team that can score and defend.

My team is also in D.IV and i have the best defense in my league so i believe if you took my advice you would see some great results. First off i would simply try to find 2 SF's that can defend inside and Out. for instance on my team I have two SF's that look like this:

5k SF:
Inside D- Prominent
Outside D- Tremendous

6k SF:
Inside D- Prominent
Outside D- Strong

These are there full skills if you want to try to find a few players like them: They help soooooo much because it gives you options to set them as backups in 2-3 different positions because the first one can guard PG, SG, SF, PF and the second one can guard SF, PF and guards if your playing a bad team.

Weekly salary: $ 5 342
Role: draws a paycheck
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DMI: 19100
Age: 26
Height: 6'0" / 183 cm
Potential: superstar
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: mediocre Jump Range: inept
Outside Def.: tremendous Handling: respectable
Driving: respectable Passing: average
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: inept
Stamina: pitiful Free Throw: strong

Experience: inept

Weekly salary: $ 6 397
Role: draws a paycheck
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DMI: 34400
Age: 31
Height: 6'7" / 201 cm
Potential: star
Game Shape: respectable
Jump Shot: mediocre Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: strong Handling: mediocre
Driving: average Passing: average
Inside Shot: respectable Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: respectable
Stamina: average Free Throw: mediocre

Experience: respectable

The last thing i suggest is to have one Defending big man and one scoring big man and then one defending guard and one scoring guard. this way you have balance.

your current ask is a bit of a pipe dream. Cut your salary loses on him.

The lack of passing means the possession often will end on him. many times in contested shots. Other players on your team have far higher shots from an assisted position. I think he only netted you a handful of assisted opportunities (you can go through and count 8 out of 25). To have a legit chance of being productive imo a team needs to be at or better than 50% in all but 3 pointers.

a 5:4 ratio in assists to turnovers is garbage against a team that TIE'd vs your CT. A defender is no good if he cant make plays on offense imo. easiest way to do it is be a setup assist machine.

Last edited by FuriousSK at 12/10/2012 3:23:03 AM