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Welcome one and all! FML Radio has been broadcasting on all USA channels recently. What better way to show our patioticity (is that a word?) than to talk about our USA National Team?

The clear expert on our team right now is head coach Isaiah who manages his team Smallfries on the side. Isaiah won the election for the National Team manager position in Season 33 by a margin of 50 votes over SherlockH. He also defeated the Flash Mashers in the finals in Div 4 back in Season 15. Give it up!

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Chek: Welcome to FML Radio!
Isaiah: Hey!

Chek: Tell us a bit about yourself!
Isa: I was born and raised in Indiana and still live here today. I am a credit analyst by day and a husband at night. I am completely addicted to basketball, whether it is watching it, playing it, talking about, or writing about it.

Chek: How is the National Team doing right now?
Isa: The National Team is doing alright. Definitely haven't performed very well to start this season. Some of that has to do with my decision making, and I am not afraid to admit that. Our group is very tough with really only two games that we are really favored for. This is quite a change from the Americas tournament when we really just stormed through the tournament besides the game we lost on purpose. I'm really looking forward to see how this team performs though over the next few games as it will give us a good idea where we stand moving into the second round (assuming we are there).

Chek: In his famous “Freedom Isn’t Free Speech” jfarb asked USA managers to purchase USA NT players. What is the benefit of having our players stay on American soil?
Isa: As a NT manager, it is always nice to be communicating with individuals who are from the same country and have similar goals. We have some great foreign managers out there who have done a great job, but they truly don't have the same desires as the USA managers.

Chek: The lowest paid players on the NT are still paid 100k/week or more. How can users in D4 or D3 that can’t afford that still help out the NT?
Isa: Simply put, by training studs at a young age. D4 and D3 managers have the perfect opportunity to trains guys out of position while still competing. By training studs out of position you have basically done the leg work for future owners. Then you can sell these players for a great price to USA managers in D.II and NBBA levels and use the money to either benefit your team to possibly promote. or you can use the money to train more studs. It ends up being a win-win for your personal team and for the NT :).

Chek: Why smallfries? Why not bigfries? Do you like your fries with Ketchup? Salted or not salted? Do you dip them in frosty’s? Is this too much about fries?
Isa: I really tried to come up with a sarcastic remark here, but I'm no ADub, Hrudey, Moflaffle, etc. haha. But really, my nickname growing up was smallfry so I used that for my team name. But I sure do love french fries, especially when they have been salted and dipped in a nice chocolate frosty.

Chek: Do you put more effort in to your own club or the NT and which do you enjoy managing more?
Isa: In all honesty, I haven't paid much attention to my own team in probably three seasons. I'm pretty sure I haven't set a lineup in three league games this season. As far as the most enjoyable, it’s the NT. I love interacting with other managers and hearing their opinions...FYI-everyone should contribute to the game threads! I just wish the offsite tools worked so we could get some better analysis on the pricks we are playing.

Chek: What would you do without A-Dub and magiker?
Isa: I'm starting to get used to being without A-Dub seems how him and Moflaffle keep having sleepovers without me. I guess I'll just have to sit here by myself and play cock of duty while eating my fries...

But in all seriousness, magiker and A-Dub own 6 of the key players on the team. Without their GS management on a weekly basis we would really have problems because we have such little depth.

Chek: If you had to pick one song to play every time you entered a new room for the rest of your life what song would it be?
Isa: All I Do Is Win-DJ Khaled

Chek: What do you hope the NT can accomplish in the future? Does it involve you staying as manager for another term?
Isa: Well, obviously a Worlds Gold, and maybe even back-to-back golds. It will take a lot of work, but we have a great community on the offsite and some great minds so I think we can make it happen. As far as myself, well ,I'll let the voters make that decision. I hope I can do enough to have at least one more term to make some strides towards those gold trophys, but I really think it will be future NT managers that will make it happen. We lack the depth for the next few seasons but we will see what happens. Maybe we can have some luck on our side.

Chek: What the hell:
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Isa: The team that plans best, wins ;). I planned for that matchup for half a season. Just had to make sure to stop Gary as he was trying to "March" his way to D III.

Chek: If you could make one change to BB or the way users play BB what change would that be?
Isa: Make FCP the best defense to use! Seriously, has anyone seen how efficient it has been in the NCAA tournament? Why can't we have that here? Imagine how fun it would be to watch two FCP and RNG teams playing each other. There would be scoring every 10 seconds. Lets see it happen BBs! That’s how you can get more users.

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Thanks to Isaiah for taking time out of a busy schedule to answer some questions! We want to wish the National Team good luck in their game against the Czech Republic here on Monday! Tune in at 11:30am to watch the boys play.

And remember to sign up for the USA Offsite to get the inside scoop on NT plans, our depth chart, and training help from experts! BB-Mail Phyr or E.B.W. for more information.

Thanks for supporting FML Radio, see you all next week!

It's important that each interviewee do a curtain call via post to receive their obligatory +1's; this way readers can express their gratitude. However, a lack of +1's will indicate a terrible interview. I call this the A-Dub provision.

Curtain call examples:
-Thank you
-Thank you all so much!
-Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
-Stop it, guys. Seriously, I'm flattered.

I guess I'll just have to sit here by myself and play cock of duty while eating my fries...

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It's important that each interviewee do a curtain call via post to receive their obligatory +1's; this way readers can express their gratitude. However, a lack of +1's will indicate a terrible interview. I call this the A-Dub provision.

Curtain call examples:
-Thank you
-Thank you all so much!
-Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
-Stop it, guys. Seriously, I'm flattered.

Apparently this didn't really take.

It's important that each interviewee do a curtain call via post to receive their obligatory +1's; this way readers can express their gratitude. However, a lack of +1's will indicate a terrible interview. I call this the A-Dub provision.

Curtain call examples:
-Thank you
-Thank you all so much!
-Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
-Stop it, guys. Seriously, I'm flattered.

Apparently this didn't really take.

I'm flattered.

Awesome series man. Keep up the good work!