Monday, August 27, 2007

Hyped Skills

The overrated skills dribbling and footwork.

It sounds strange, as these skills are highly popular nowadays in Charazay, and I even train them, but they are not needed.

Excel in these 5 skills and you'll be unstoppable:

Rebounds
Passing
Speed
Defence
2 Points

Why will this be so effective? I'll give you the players needed here: They almost do not exist, but they could've been trained this way easily. 45 in 3 skills isn't uncommon. These standards are for topteams, though. It can be lower too, these guys just give you an idea how they need to be shaped.

PG:
Height:200 Weight:85
Defence:20

Free Throws:x
Two Point:x
Three Point:x
Dribbling:x
Passing:15
Speed:10
Footwork:x
Rebounds:x

Experience:x


SG:

Height:205
Weight:90
Defence:20
Free Throws:x
Two Point:10
Three Point:x
Dribbling:x
Passing:x
Speed:15
Footwork:x
Rebounds:x

Experience:x

SF:

Height:210
Weight:100
Defence:15
Free Throws:x
Two Point:10
Three Point:x
Dribbling:x
Passing:x
Speed:20
Footwork:x
Rebounds:x

Experience:x

PF:

Height:215
Weight:115
Defence:20
Free Throws:x
Two Point:x
Three Point:x
Dribbling:x
Passing:10
Speed:x
Footwork:x
Rebounds:15

Experience:x

C:

Height:220
Weight:120
Defence:10
Free Throws:x
Two Point:15
Three Point:x
Dribbling:x
Passing:x
Speed:x
Footwork:x
Rebounds:20

Experience:x


Here's the deal tactically. You're fine defensively. So there will be many missed shots. You got 2 fine rebounders, so they'll catch some rebounds. The center will shoot them with his 15 2p and the PF will pass the catched shots to the PG. He will provide the SG/SF/C with an easy chance. The center will score due to his great 2points, the speedy SG and SF already had all the time to pick up a fine pass from the PG and has an easy shot.

Of course this is just a theoretical discussion, as there's no such team around. But at least it's interesting enough to talk about. Will this only work in theory, or is there someone brave enough to try?

Many Thanks to barthijzz for this article.

1 comment:

Willi said...

Really nice theory! But I think the PG will have quite some TO's due to low dribbling, even if he's set pass-most and conservative and the C will have problems defending high footwork C's, he himself will have troubles getting shots off without footwork or speed. At a Top-Team-Level they will lose the rebounding battle most of the time if only PF/C rebound. But the great defence can make up for that - this reminds me of Tuby Orcs when they managed to held the All-Stars to 39 Points and won despite all the rebounds the All-Stars had (64 i think).
What I like about your theory is that you focus only on 5 Skills to train, this would make such a team possible - with a lot of patience and maybe money.