Paint Protectors' guide is to protect the rim against your center,
nba mt and to protect the rim on people driving to the lane. Its role is to
make sure that no one scores in that paint but if you guard a stretch
big it will be hard guarding the paint but that's what you have to do
basically. If there is an archetype that can stop the Slasher, the Paint
Protector is this archetype. Also on screens your defensive
capabilities allow you to do a passable job guarding guards momentarily.
Extremely inferior offensively to other centers, even with defensive
stopper you can still be posterized by a glass cleaner for example.
If you play mostly MyPark solo I would recommend a smaller player. Most
of the bigs are stretch bigs and most of the time you will be up
against some combination of PG/SG/SF. I find mobility to be at a
premium, to cover smaller players and to give you the range to cover the
paint and a stretch big.
Or you can max agility and defense first, as those are related to your primary job. After that grab
rebounding and strength. For offense go either with post scoring or
dunks, but you will likely spend most of your time on offense setting
screens. Think DeAndre Jordan or Ben Wallace, your job offensively is to
help the other players from off the ball or find ways to get open near
the rim.
We recommend getting a team to play with because if you play with randys man to man and you get a stretch, there's a good chance
paint is gonna be open the entire game so find a team of 3 and just
play zone. If you have a group to play with, just play zone and stay
near the rim to stop drives and get rebounds, and do whatever fits best
into your group's offensive scheme.
