I am new to the hoops side, have played football for a few seasons now. I am getting a lot of assistant coach suggestions as far as practice time for my players after every game (5-8) at a time. Should I take all of these at face value and do what the AC is asking? The reason I am skeptical is the AC in football is always a complete idiot and listening to him is a sure fire way to run your team into the ground.

The ACs in HD say a lot of meaningless stuff too but unfortunately the player practice emails are legit. When they tell you they can't get anymore out of the guy it is true. I just set that skill to 7 or 8 and move the remaining minutes to someplace else.

The only exception to that rule is Free Throws. I leave that at 12 (some coaches say 10) because otherwise it will drop.

For maxed out ratings I use 3-5, and for FT shooting I use 7-9. Both largely depend on how important it is, and of course WE. I've never had anyone drop more then 1 point in a season and never had a grade in FT shooting drop. Like weena said though if they say its maxed out its maxed out.