also, almost completely ignore SB in your bigs in this scheme. really, all you care about in your bigs is stamina, ath, reb, and def. and, i suppose, decent work ethic. i see you are in low d1 now, so tlaking about championships is probably not ideal - so let me say this - even if i was trying to win a title in d1, i'd happily take 5 bigs with 90 ath/reb/def/sta, 50 sb, and 1 spd, lp, per, bh, and pass. so in your shoes, being a crappy d1 team who takes leftovers, you are going to basically have to be even less selective. go for bigs who are like 60-70 ath, 80-100 reb, with good stamina (80s or better) and decent def (60-70 hopefully). that will be fine for you to make the NT.

Posted by Trentonjoe on 5/17/2019 12:15:00 PM (view original):
Stamina, stamina, stamina....what the hell is good stamina? 80?

Why you no like stamina TJ?

Posted by Benis on 5/17/2019 3:21:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Trentonjoe on 5/17/2019 12:15:00 PM (view original):
Stamina, stamina, stamina....what the hell is good stamina? 80?

Why you no like stamina TJ?

Takes to long.....

Posted by Trentonjoe on 5/17/2019 7:20:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Benis on 5/17/2019 3:21:00 PM (view original):

Posted by Trentonjoe on 5/17/2019 12:15:00 PM (view original):
Stamina, stamina, stamina....what the hell is good stamina? 80?

Why you no like stamina TJ?

Takes to long.....

Ha nice. I was gonna make a joke about your wife valuing stamina a lot more than you do.

Pretty sure she wants it over as quickly as possible. At least with me....

“a lot of the above advice was good, but the advice about prioritizing defense (the stat) was bad, for a few reasons. 1) you can't have it all, and you HAVE to have good stamina, ath, and speed. that is your mission in life. 2) you HAVE to be 12 deep, and competition for high ath/def players is really high, so you have to look elsewhere.”

Stamina is very important, but it’s a different kind of prioritization, and you should note that. Stamina on its own doesn’t make a player useful. A 90+ stamina player is only a positive for the team if he also brings value in other areas. And while you will very rarely find players who won’t get at least to the mid-60s in stamina (which is still enough to be a 12-mpg sub), there are thousands of players with sub 60 defense. A low defense player does more damage individually than a low stamina player, because he’s giving up more points, and fouling more - which in itself causes its own stamina problems.

I am sure billyg said it in this thread all ready, because he’s said it a 100 times, “good stamina doesn’t make a bad player good, it makes a good player great and a great player elite”.

I think the big thing is that there is a big difference between “don’t recruit guys who won’t make it to 70 defense” and “don’t recruit guys who won’t make it to 70 stamina”. One statement excludes a huge number of players. The other doesn’t. That’s what I mean by a different kind of prioritization.