I have the highest overall in my conference by a long shot and I can't do anything right. I have switched lineups a million times and everything fails. What the hell am I doing wrong????

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=13327

Your team has a lot of alright but not really great ratings, your team ath/spd/def is weakish, and reb is very bad, and you have no bh/pas in the motion

thought it was a pretty good D3 team at first,

you run man and don't shoot 3's thats a huge recipie for sim upsets imo. and you schedule way too tough in non conf which will keep you out of the post season whereas you probably could've made the 1st or 2nd round of the NT if you scheduled a majority of senior or junior heavy sims and won those.

I wil have to look into your depth chart later that's all i can say at first glance right now Im too busy to give you a full length review

You have some nice players here and there, but they don't form a cohesive team and they have some very fatal flaws.

You run a motion offense, but have no obvious PG (I consider a high-quality PG to be a must have for motion). Nichols has some nice ratings, but he has a 19 DEF rating. You can't run a man-to-man defense and have your PG (or any other player who plays major minutes) at a 19 DEF rating. You need a PG with very high BH/P if you are going to run motion. You need to find a PG with good SPD, DEF, BH, P & WE and ignore everything else (including PER -- you can run a good motion offense with a distributor PG).

Overall, your defense sucks, especially once you go to your bench. Generally speaking, your bench guys are awful defensively. I added it up -- in your six conference losses, your bench has been outscored 162-94 -- their bench is outscoring your bench by 11 ppg. You can't run M2M with those defense ratings (50-38-34-33-19); if M2M is what you want to run, you have to recruit better defenders.

Take a step back and look at your team in the big picture. What should this team do well? I can tell you what my best teams do well -- they don't turn the ball over, they don't foul and they shoot well from outside (kind of like a classic Bo Ryan team). So tell me what strengths your team should have.

the0nlyis is right -- you need to shoot more 3s. You're taking a bunch of 2s and your opponents are taking 3s. What do you expect to happen? A team that doesn't shoot a bunch of 3s can win if they can generate a ton of possessions -- like a FB/Press team that gets a ton of turnovers and easy baskets. But if you are playing with a low number of possessions, the game will favor a team that is shooting 3s.

I would like my team to play great defense and be able to hit from the perimeter. Nichols was only targeted to be an off the bench scorer, but when I was handed this team, 4 senior Point Guards left the next season. That hurt.

Posted by Mr_Kid on 4/7/2016 2:57:00 PM (view original):
I would like my team to play great defense and be able to hit from the perimeter. Nichols was only targeted to be an off the bench scorer, but when I was handed this team, 4 senior Point Guards left the next season. That hurt.

A few things:

1. I keep hearing newish coaches say "I recruited these players because I lost 3 point guards or I lost 3 big men." Stop that. You need to take control of your team and how it is constructed. Just because your lost 4 senior PGs in one class doesn't mean you have to replace them with four freshmen guards or even four guards. Your team was coached by a SIM for 15 seasons before you showed up. Are you really going to let the SIM dictate your class composition?

Right now, all of your young players are guards and your seniors/juniors are big men. So in two years, you'll have a bunch of experienced guards and rookie big men and you won't be able to figure out why you can't rebound or score inside. You won't be able to win with a teeter-totter team.

Put together a spreadsheet similar to this one. Figure out what your team will look like in 4 years. Get your team off this cycle of being completely unbalanced.

2. You want to play great defense, but you aren't recruiting great defenders. You need to really step your recruiting of great defenders.

3. You want to be able to hit from the perimeter and your guards have good PER ratings. So why aren't they taking those shots?

You make good points. I need to figure my **** out. Thank you for the spreadsheet idea.

Posted by grimacedance on 4/7/2016 2:46:00 PM (view original):
You have some nice players here and there, but they don't form a cohesive team and they have some very fatal flaws.

You run a motion offense, but have no obvious PG (I consider a high-quality PG to be a must have for motion). Nichols has some nice ratings, but he has a 19 DEF rating. You can't run a man-to-man defense and have your PG (or any other player who plays major minutes) at a 19 DEF rating. You need a PG with very high BH/P if you are going to run motion. You need to find a PG with good SPD, DEF, BH, P & WE and ignore everything else (including PER -- you can run a good motion offense with a distributor PG).

Overall, your defense sucks, especially once you go to your bench. Generally speaking, your bench guys are awful defensively. I added it up -- in your six conference losses, your bench has been outscored 162-94 -- their bench is outscoring your bench by 11 ppg. You can't run M2M with those defense ratings (50-38-34-33-19); if M2M is what you want to run, you have to recruit better defenders.

Take a step back and look at your team in the big picture. What should this team do well? I can tell you what my best teams do well -- they don't turn the ball over, they don't foul and they shoot well from outside (kind of like a classic Bo Ryan team). So tell me what strengths your team should have.

the0nlyis is right -- you need to shoot more 3s. You're taking a bunch of 2s and your opponents are taking 3s. What do you expect to happen? A team that doesn't shoot a bunch of 3s can win if they can generate a ton of possessions -- like a FB/Press team that gets a ton of turnovers and easy baskets. But if you are playing with a low number of possessions, the game will favor a team that is shooting 3s.

This is a great post and should be starred. Decide what your teams identity is going to be. What do you envision your team to look like on the floor. Then decide if the system you are running matches that and then recruit players who can run your system. For me, this was a game changer ... Of many game changers with this game.

Posted by kbc167 on 4/9/2016 1:07:00 PM (view original):

Posted by grimacedance on 4/7/2016 2:46:00 PM (view original):
You have some nice players here and there, but they don't form a cohesive team and they have some very fatal flaws.

You run a motion offense, but have no obvious PG (I consider a high-quality PG to be a must have for motion). Nichols has some nice ratings, but he has a 19 DEF rating. You can't run a man-to-man defense and have your PG (or any other player who plays major minutes) at a 19 DEF rating. You need a PG with very high BH/P if you are going to run motion. You need to find a PG with good SPD, DEF, BH, P & WE and ignore everything else (including PER -- you can run a good motion offense with a distributor PG).

Overall, your defense sucks, especially once you go to your bench. Generally speaking, your bench guys are awful defensively. I added it up -- in your six conference losses, your bench has been outscored 162-94 -- their bench is outscoring your bench by 11 ppg. You can't run M2M with those defense ratings (50-38-34-33-19); if M2M is what you want to run, you have to recruit better defenders.

Take a step back and look at your team in the big picture. What should this team do well? I can tell you what my best teams do well -- they don't turn the ball over, they don't foul and they shoot well from outside (kind of like a classic Bo Ryan team). So tell me what strengths your team should have.

the0nlyis is right -- you need to shoot more 3s. You're taking a bunch of 2s and your opponents are taking 3s. What do you expect to happen? A team that doesn't shoot a bunch of 3s can win if they can generate a ton of possessions -- like a FB/Press team that gets a ton of turnovers and easy baskets. But if you are playing with a low number of possessions, the game will favor a team that is shooting 3s.

This is a great post and should be starred. Decide what your teams identity is going to be. What do you envision your team to look like on the floor. Then decide if the system you are running matches that and then recruit players who can run your system. For me, this was a game changer ... Of many game changers with this game.

Definitely, KBC. Patience is key too. I'm learning that...lol!

Man isn't a bad defense to use. But it is bad if you don't build it right, and its easy to mess up if you don't get the right players. THe problems look mainly offensive: Too many turnovers(The lack of bh or pass) and too many people who shouldn't shooting more threes than they should, and the defense of that bench