[Icy]

A little advice for the backups, train your defensive skills as most of the starters are specialized on offense, so if you specialize on defense, you will have more chances to play or even start vs teams that we need to shut down defensively (like i succesfully did with Wade Moore in this game).

For big players the defensive skills are:
Blocking
Strength (helps on blocking)
Stealing
Jumping (helps on blocking)

For small guys, the defensive skills are:
Stealing
Speed (helps on stealing)
Blocking
Jumping (helps on blocking)