Reached out to someone from the mentor thread but got nothing -

I'm on my second year with these guys in Allen.

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=7796

I'm running flex/fc press and am not quite sure what kind of guys i should be looking for/how i should be using the ones that i have. More directly -

Roger Thornton - how much of a defensive liability is he? Does his spd make up for def at all in the press? Does his low ath make him less effective on d? Is he worth starting as a 75+ PE and P guy?

Timothy Chandler - His scoring ratings put him as more of a SF, esp. because he'll be 75+ LP by senior year. Does his low REB and BLK make him a liability on d at SF? Would it be worth playing him there anyway? How much use would he get out of high LP at SG? How much would he get out of it at SF?

In general, how much of a liability does low P make a player in flex? Is it less if they are at SF? PF? C?

In general, how important is spd in big men in press? Can you get by with 55-25 guys like Schall and Barrett and Roper?

Rutenberg will be a 95+ PE guy by senior year. Are there other attributes that influence perimeter efficiency in flex, or should he be high play dist with +2 3p freq then?

Capra is H/H in LP but he's got essentially no stats in REB or BLK, is it worth training? Would it be ridiculous to play him at 2 or 3 if he was 50/50 LP and PE? Does the fact that he's 5'9" influence any of this? Does LP even help at 2?

In general, what attributes must a player not be a liability in to function in the flex and the press?

That's all I have pressing right now, but if there are other questions i should be asking, feel free to answer them as well.

Thanks.
aitchrjay

Posted by aitchrjay on 9/20/2016 11:07:00 AM (view original):
Reached out to someone from the mentor thread but got nothing -

I'm on my second year with these guys in Allen.

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/TeamProfile/Ratings.aspx?tid=7796

I'm running flex/fc press and am not quite sure what kind of guys i should be looking for/how i should be using the ones that i have. More directly -

Roger Thornton - how much of a defensive liability is he? Does his spd make up for def at all in the press? Does his low ath make him less effective on d? Is he worth starting as a 75+ PE and P guy?

Timothy Chandler - His scoring ratings put him as more of a SF, esp. because he'll be 75+ LP by senior year. Does his low REB and BLK make him a liability on d at SF? Would it be worth playing him there anyway? How much use would he get out of high LP at SG? How much would he get out of it at SF?

In general, how much of a liability does low P make a player in flex? Is it less if they are at SF? PF? C?

In general, how important is spd in big men in press? Can you get by with 55-25 guys like Schall and Barrett and Roper?

Rutenberg will be a 95+ PE guy by senior year. Are there other attributes that influence perimeter efficiency in flex, or should he be high play dist with +2 3p freq then?

Capra is H/H in LP but he's got essentially no stats in REB or BLK, is it worth training? Would it be ridiculous to play him at 2 or 3 if he was 50/50 LP and PE? Does the fact that he's 5'9" influence any of this? Does LP even help at 2?

In general, what attributes must a player not be a liability in to function in the flex and the press?

That's all I have pressing right now, but if there are other questions i should be asking, feel free to answer them as well.

Thanks.
aitchrjay

Ill sitemail you.

In flex, I want guards who can shoot (Per/spd) and passing helps at all positions, because you can work a flex nicely with only 2 scorers - high passing maximizes your chances of finding them in the right spots. I tend to value speed over ath, also passing over ball-handling in the flex.

In the press, you also need speed, but ath and defense are very important, or you'll be in foul trouble. I think you're seeing that with Thornton. Ideally, I'd have a guy like Thornton come off the bench at multiple positions, so your opponent can't target him. If he's the #2 guy at both guard positions, and maybe even sf, he'll still see close to 20mpg, and may avoid foul trouble.

Speed helps at all positions in the press, but I value ath over spd for pf/c. Obviously, I'm trying to get the bulk of my rebounds there as well. I would be comfortable with Chandler at sf, as long as you have good rebounding bigs. Unless he's still blue in speed, he probably won't be fast enough to be a good flex guard.

If it's my team, and I'm trying to max success for this year, I would likely start:
pg - capra
sg - fields
sf - chandler
pf - barrett
c - rawls
I'd bring Thornton off the bench at #2 for pg/sg, have rutenberg set #2 at sf, and #3 at the guards. Roper is your #2 pf, schall your #2 c.

I'd be looking for about 20% offense each for Capra, Rawls, Thornton, and Rutenberg, 10% for Chandler, and the rest split among the other 4 guys. Right now, Chandler is more valuable to me as a distributor, maybe a 3rd option. That could change as the year progresses, he may end up a better scorer than Capra, so keep an eye on that.

Thornton could be okay with low Def if he was super fast. But he's only 67 SPD. Needs to be closer to 85. He'd be better coming off the bench and popping a couple 3s.