I have what I consider my personal best team ever coming back for this season, but have one player that I don't really know what to do with. Daniel Wright has some obvious flaws, but I'm wondering if his 99 BH, 100 Pass, and A- FT shooting would make him too valuable not to start at PG. It should also be noted that I run a fastbreak (M2M Def), and like to treat my SF as another pure guard. Right now I am planning on having Wright as my #1 backup at both PG and SG, and going with the following lineup:

PG: John Huffman
SG: Edward Khoury
SF: Kyle Jenkins
PF: John Ice
C: Michael Allen
Wild Card: Daniel Wright

Anyone have any suggestions? As you can see, Khoury at SG is definitely my weakest link, and who I was considering bumping out for Wright. Khoury does have plenty of growth left, and don't sleep on the significance of a B+ FT shooter in the FB.

I know this isn't a national championship contending team or anything like that, but I want to give myself the best chance I can to win a couple games in the NT. Thanks, and any feedback will be appreciated!

Wright isn't big 6 worthy even with that bh/pas he's a decent non major player and that's it. his ath/def is terrible for Big 6 even with the elite spd/bh/pas, he's still a big liability as a backup a smart coach would attack him and abuse him.

Honestly I'd be surprised if you even won a NT game barring some great seeding and a lucky draw. Sorry to say.

Allen is really nice, Ice is solid though

PG - wright then huffman
SG - huffman then khoury
SF - jenkins then davis
PF - Ice then Buentello
C - allen then garza then McPherson

Ive had PGs like that or a little worse on a couple teams that made the round of 32 from my VaTech teams. He is a PG that will be able to get others into scoring poisition IMO. yeah he may be weak as a defender but he will be fine on offence IMO

oh boy

one thing alot of people forget to take into account is you need each player to play roles (read the gillespie plan, a must breakdown of how to build a team). That PG will work because you are a "C" team, if you had a B+ prestige then ya people like theONLYis can talk crap but for your prestige you have to pick things to concentrate on and do well. so put in place a group of 5 that will do their part. The one big problem you'll have is scoring because you have one slasher and 1 post player so you'll need a 3rd guy to get lucky and play above his ratings (maybe allen or jenkins) or have someone improve a ton over the yr.

Posted by the0nlyis on 4/4/2016 2:50:00 PM (view original):
Wright isn't big 6 worthy even with that bh/pas he's a decent non major player and that's it. his ath/def is terrible for Big 6 even with the elite spd/bh/pas, he's still a big liability as a backup a smart coach would attack him and abuse him.

Honestly I'd be surprised if you even won a NT game barring some great seeding and a lucky draw. Sorry to say.

Allen is really nice, Ice is solid though

With all his sr's and the iq that come with that its a much better team than you're giving credit. I run a fb too and players like huffman can be huge scorers.

Wright reminds me of a guy I had a while back

https://www.whatifsports.com/hd/PlayerHistory/Ratings.aspx?tid=12092&pid=3063061

I think a guy like that is a perfectly legitimate backup option, but wouldn't start him. Set his distro high and let him come off the bench. You're not going to win a championship with guys like that, but they can definitely be serviceable for fringe teams.

Your team is good except for Khoury. You will struggle getting pts against good defenses unless jenkins faces a friendly match-up. It's a Pit team closing in on a nt. I hope your non-con is light and good for your rpi.

The problem with him is how much offense he will have to produce to make up for the shooting% he will give up as well as the fouls. He's not a high per player(if so I still wouldn't start him but I'd have him off the bench easily at that level), but he's still not a great scorer the 95 spd and 99 bh is good but he has 72 per so he won't be that good scorer, he can be a good facilitator off the bench, but again a smart coach will target him he's a clear weak spot.

I;ve been successful with similar playes I have a few, but they were all at non major schools and were exposed against good schools.

I've gotta tell you the0nly, I think you're straight-up wrong on this one. There simply aren't enough coaching controls to allow coaches to target a backup, especially a backup at multiple positions. After the first few minutes of each half, backups don't necessarily tend to line up against one another - in other words, you're 2nd PG is still more likely to be facing my starter than my #2 at any given time when he's on the court. If my starter is a good defender and you jack up your backup PG's distro to try to take advantage of my backup, I don't think you come out ahead on that. And when you throw in a wrench like putting him on the depth chart at 2-3 positions, there's really not much room at all to try to match up against the guy. A lot of coaches have been asking for matchup-based coaching controls, but as of now, I don't think there's any way to productively achieve this kind of thing.

Posted by dahsdebater on 4/4/2016 9:48:00 PM (view original):
I've gotta tell you the0nly, I think you're straight-up wrong on this one. There simply aren't enough coaching controls to allow coaches to target a backup, especially a backup at multiple positions. After the first few minutes of each half, backups don't necessarily tend to line up against one another - in other words, you're 2nd PG is still more likely to be facing my starter than my #2 at any given time when he's on the court. If my starter is a good defender and you jack up your backup PG's distro to try to take advantage of my backup, I don't think you come out ahead on that. And when you throw in a wrench like putting him on the depth chart at 2-3 positions, there's really not much room at all to try to match up against the guy. A lot of coaches have been asking for matchup-based coaching controls, but as of now, I don't think there's any way to productively achieve this kind of thing.

uh all you have to do is have an offensive PG and move your best offensive backup to PG and you'll be getting points on him. If you start him then you're just asking for opposing pg's to dick on you.

It's really not that hard to target a backup. Yes it's not as effective as it could be, but it's still very possible, I'm surprised you don't think thats possible, like incredibly surprised you think that.

i mean seriously you guys don't target weak players and backups? I thought was a pretty easy thing to do lol

I am in the "bring Wright off the bench" camp. I tend to list guys like that as the backup 1 and 2 just so guys have a harder time trying to exploit them.

Thanks for the help guys. Some of these players, especially Khoury and Jenkins, have a bunch of potential remaining so perhaps I am looking at them knowing where they will be at the end of the season, instead of just their current stats. I have had and seen players like Wright put up big offensive numbers in the Fastbreak, where 40+ LP for a guard can be pretty significant when combined with high SPD, LP, and FT.

don't listen to the only hater, everyone else is right, wright is workable, on C prestige. granted - that ath/def is mighty hard to swallow, running m2m. but you can tolerate it for a lead scorer, and because you run fb, wright can be a top scorer. so its workable - not ideal, but workable.

you have a solid team, but the problem isn't this player or that, its the player you don't have. fastbreak is a great offense, it lets you get offensive production from non-traditional scorers, freeing you up to work on other things. but that is no excuse to ignore the fact that strong 3 point scoring remains by far the most efficient form of offense in the game. with a strong 3 point scorer around to pick up another huge chunk of your offense, you'd be in much better shape.

edit: id probably play wright at pg against low to mid scoring pgs (maybe 8ppg or less or so), and have him backup the 2/3 otherwise. that pass + iq at pg is very valuable, maybe up to 12ppg or so you could live with him there. maybe somewhere in the middle is better, i don't know, thats hard to pin down, i really would have to look at your team better. but, my gut is, i would play him at starting pg when i could. who is your 4th guard anyway? one of the sfs?

Thanks gillispie, good stuff as always.

Fourth guard is probably going to be Davis. May be a little slow but still has blue potential in SPD. My only other option is Autry, a redshirt FR. He is going to be a great player eventually (cores still blue) but he isn't there yet. Don't plan on having him on the court much to start the season, maybe 3rd string SG and/or SF.