Players skills

We will try to explain the different skills and what skills are most useful depending on the position in which a players plays. Let's start with physical skills:

Physical skills

The physical skills are distinguished because there is no specific training to improve them. Conditioning, quickness and confidence may have values from 1 to 6. In vitality the range is between 1 and 10 and the experience starts in 1 and can increase without limits.

Conditioning

Conditioning represents the player's fitness.Conditioning determines how tired a player, so that the better physical condition have a player slowly tired and therefore may be more time in the court without lowering their performance. It is necessary to train the physical condition every week to not lose conditioning. Playing games, training and specially, training condition helps maintain shape. Depending on the conditioning level a player has, you need a amount of physical points to keep up. If the players gets more physical points than needed for the week, his conditioning will increase. If, however, misses that threshold, he will lose conditioning. So, to have a high fitness, training whenever possible and occasionally, also trains physical condition.

Vitality

Vitality indicates the physical exhaustion of a player. The more vitality a player has he will be fresher and rested. The vitality is used during games and during training. In matches, affects to how a player get exhaused. Tired players play worse, so having a high vitality will help a player to play longer without lowering his performance. Besides having a low vitality makes it more likely that a player has an injury.
In practice, the vitality determines whether players are able to endure the training. If you have been a very intense training and the player is a little tired, then you may not finish the training (and not learn anything new). In that case you will see a warning in the training.

Quickness

Speed can not train, there is no specific training to improve the speed but the physical condition can influence speed of the players. The speed affects the counter and in the defense of counterattacks. In addition it also influences the penetrations to the basket. Guards typically starts penetrations while any player can start a counter.

Confidence

Confidence represents that something that players have when they feel that everything goes easy. Confidence affects the performance of players during the game, so which seeks to have the confidence of the players high. Confidence works similarly to conditioning. Players must achieved during the week a certain threshold to maintain the confidence of a player, but in this case, the main contribution comes off playing official matches. The more minutes a player plays the better. Players play better when they feel they have coach's confidence. Training also improve confidence except physical condition that not only not aid, but makes the player lose confidence, because after fitness training players often lose feelings

Experience

In the critical moments of the matches experienced players emerged. It is on those occasions where having experienced players will make the level of your team do not suffer. This nervousness specially affect players on the visiting teams at the end of matches . Local players, to have the support of his fans , often better control their emotions.

Height

Height influences rebounds and defending shots. If two players have the same rebound skills the taller player will rebound better. As for the defense, the difference in height between the attacker and the defender will affect the defense.

Technical Skills

All the technical skills have a specific training to improve the skill. The Most of the skills are useful for all players, but some are more importates for certain positions than others. We will try to describe each ability and how it is used.

Defense

Defense is perhaps the most important skill of the players. It is used for all aspects of defense, such as defending shots, defending the attack positional counterattacks. The more defense the better the chance of stealing balls, bloking or avoid doing fouls.

Inner shoot

Inner shot is used mainly by centers to shoot baskets from positions close to the basket but also for any player at the end of a tray, either in a penetration or a counterattack. In addition also influences the free throws. As you can see the interior shot is important for all players but perhaps more important for centers.

Exterior shoot

The long distance shot is used by guards. It also influences the free throws. It is therefore more important for outside players that in centers.

Passing

Passing is used collectively to calculate the static attack of a team. The static attack compared to the static defense of the rival tells us how well attacks your team and can provide assistance and prevent steals of the opposite. Furthermore in the penetrations and passes counterattacks are useful to give assists. As penetrations are executed specially by the external players, passing is a useful skill for all players but perhaps more for the outside players and especially for the point guards.

Technique

technique is specially used by point guards to avoid pressure and raising the ball to the opposite court. It is also used in external players in penetrations and by any player in counterattacks. Technique is therefore more important for particular points guards and any other guard.

Rebounds

Rebounds are used collectively to calculate the rebounding power of your team. Centers have more influence than the rest of his teammates, as they play closer to the basket. Also note that the height of the players also influences the rebound. Therefore rebounds is more important in the centers.