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A great summary by a great NT manager. I think we are looking really strong for next season. If Katsurou Matsumoto and Eita Wakatsuki were trained properly then we will have 2 world class big men, just hope 1 can play PF. Then if Keisuke Ikouga is as good as you say we have a top PG to get them the ball. Having a SF like Taira Kentaro if he really is a SF would be a huge bonus, you said he can even play PF, that is very encouraging. There is 4 solid starters right there. If 6k Ichiro Ekiguchi really is our 5th best player then that is a big drop with the 5th starter but again you said he can play SF or PF so he may have a great spread of skills.

That still leaves Yoshiaki Amori (9k) and my Takayoshi Kawagichi (13k now and projected salary of $23,504 already with a few pops to come) who can surely get some minutes. I know some NTs this season ran multiple PGs to fuel their LI attacks so maybe seeing we have 2 Cs, 2 SFs and 3 PGs as our top 7 we could do the same. This could work well if Keisuke Ikouga is the best outside scorer we have and he could slide over to SG. Then again maybe if he is such a brilliant PG he is needed there. But who is the SG?

The only thing we need is a coach...
Unfortunately, I can't consider it. It'd be a bit of an up from the Welsh job I just did, and I'll be stopping that due to a fairly substantial workload increase.

What about you Lord Toranaga?


Slight tangent: one of my trainees was just added to the Lithuanian U21 team. Pretty happy about that... that's 2-outta-3 on U21 teams. Now... hopefully my HK guy makes it on too!

Great work that is impressive.

No I would be the worst coach ever. Everyone knows how biased I am I would just run a starting 5 of all my own players and we would lose every game by 50.

I hope Taiyo will come back. He was the cup champion so knows how to manage. He ran last time and lost only 7 to 5 with a very fickle voting community here. Evidence of that is that even after the great job Wolph has done this season he is sitting on only 77% approval with 13 votes cast, so that is a few that disapprove.

PS: I was reading your blog and you are wrong. There is a special NBA rule 17.3.2 that says, "If you do a spectacular dunk then no matter what you do there will never be an offensive foul called especially if your name is Blake Grififin." Check it.

Last edited by Lord Toranaga at 4/20/2012 7:06:27 PM

Great work that is impressive.

No I would be the worst coach ever. Everyone knows how biased I am I would just run a starting 5 of all my own players and we would lose every game by 50.

I hope Taiyo will come back. He was the cup champion so knows how to manage. He ran last time and lost only 7 to 5 with a very fickle voting community here. Evidence of that is that even after the great job Wolph has done this season he is sitting on only 77% approval with 13 votes cast, so that is a few that disapprove.

PS: I was reading your blog and you are wrong. There is a special NBA rule 17.3.2 that says, "If you do a spectacular dunk then no matter what you do there will never be an offensive foul called especially if your name is Blake Grififin." Check it.

Taiyo already has a gig... and is doing great guns there.

And it's become pretty obvious that rule 17.3.2 DOES exist!

Last edited by malice at 4/20/2012 7:29:29 PM

Very interesting.

First with Kawagichi I have done 48+ pressure with a level 6 trainer for the last 5 weeks but he just doesn't want to pop. Still I am certain he will pop this week and assuming no injuries he will be sensational OD before the first game next season and just up and up from there. I wont be doing any JR as it is such a potential sink and he will get a couple of pops there over the next few seasons from secondary effects. I hope I can get him to around phenomenal OD and PA if I am careful with good JS, HA, DR and some nice secondaries even with his superstar potential as long as I don't train his JR and RE. Obviously a long term plan there but I want him to be a JBBL starter and I think that is what is needed.

We are loaded at C, the lack of a PF is bad but surely a $40k C is better than a $10k PF at PF. If we do play against teams running SGs at PF it may be different but for the typical LI team the primaries would be key and we can't afford to be losing rebound battles by big margins.



C Matsumoto is a slam dunk for C.
PF Surely we need our 2nd bast player Wakatsuki to start, he has played some PF for his club team only getting .5 less ratings than usual so he should be the PF.
SF Why would you play Kentaro at PF leaving Wakatsuki on the bench when you say he is the best SF and your option is to play Amori a PG? (Although I see he has had almost all his age 19 training at C so he may have great secondaries and that would make his salary deceptivly low - he could be a gem for us maybe backup PG or backup SF could be a very handy player.)
SG as you say is a complete mess with no-one. I think one of the PGs who has some JR should slide over here.
PG Keisuke Ikouga is apparently a stud who can defend, pass and score. Fantastic!

I disagree that PG is just about 2 stats, obviously OD and PA are the highlights but HA, DR and JS are all important probably in that order. After that either IS or JR in the current engine. DR is critical as running LI your PGs will take a high % of their shots as driving layups and I think a low JR stops them taking bad 3s. But I could be wrong and I'm not the coach. OD and PA are no doubt key. Hopefully by the time we are in playoffs at the end of the season Kawagichi will be on around double wondrous. That is only 4 pops from where I expect him to start, not a hard ask really.

Guys like you and Taiyo have proven yourselves in the JBBL. Malice is a basketball encyclopedia and now has NT experience. There are a ton of other top managers here like Mizik, Izaman, Yellow cake or even the legendary Superfly Guy that know a lot more than me and would be top candidates. Really I would vote for almost any JBBL manager except mikelm15. There is also Akiko_0219 of Shikoku Otaku who has always run his team well in 2/1. ﾃｨﾓﾃｨ of aisteru.4ever, Baikinman of Baikinman, there are a lot of solid managers in Nippon.

I am a bit wary of an overseas manager after last time but I guess if a really good one came up it would be possible.

Dude... you LEARN more by being it. You have your own ideas, and you could do well.
The most important thing about a National Team job is not experience, it's passion and dedication. I don't think any of the guys you named have that over you.

I'd vote for you.

I'd vote for you. Wales was a big job because you had to do it all. Here you would have a ton of support. Wolph, Tayo etc know how to run things. I would be happy to assist in some way scouting or press releases or whatever. It would be easier than Wales.