In my first season as a PF, I requested a trade and ended up on the Suns (they sent Lopez to Houston for me -- the Rockets were pretty boring to play with and the Suns weren't one of my trade choices). It was prior to the patch, so playing constant freestyle with Nash was pretty fun. A month or so later, the brilliant CPU front office traded Nash, J. Rich and a 1st round pick to Houston for Yao and Kevin "OK, I'll shoot!" Martin. It was like I never left.

I'm nearing the end of my 2nd season with that PF, now with the Celtics, a much more favorable place for a PF. Averaging 24 ppg and 18 rpg, while Rondo leads the league in assists by a mile from all the pick-and-roll. We were on our way to a 79-3 kinda season, but the monotony caught up. Been playing Superstar/Simulation for the past dozen games, but the shooting %'s are pretty atrocious. There's just no balance between challenge and a stupidly unrealistic .270 FG%.
Anyone else notice that any given teammate seems more likely to make a shot if the pass comes from another CPU teammate and not you? Hard not to take that personally.
I think most of where your minutes come from is based on your performance, more so than your attributes. That's really the only way a <70 OVR player could displace an all-star in the starting lineup. To lower your minutes reliably and in a hurry, just play terribly; put up some D- teammate grades. If you're willing to sim, then lowering your OVR will do it, but as soon as you start playing well enough (performance wise), you're back in the starting lineup again. Getting a 6th man award without going over the maximum starts allowed is gonna be tricky.
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