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Happy Birthday!!!!! and a great post!!!

I guess I should apologise for Kawagichi's poor effort, 7 minutes only, didn't take a shot, 0 points, 0 rebounds, just 2 assists, a bad effort. Maybe bad next week too, he either gets 90 minutes and 48+ training or about 50 minutes and no training at all. I am planning to go with the 90.

@Izaman

Blanks are effective. Rebounds at PG~SF are not (my opinions obvoiusly)...
I see mostly yours and YCs players in the lineup.

We need reboudning on the PF/C.... RB on the SF/guards didn't win the rebounding battle for us... rebound distribution is always funky...they spread theirs out more. it was close I guess...but ultimately we needed more flow,scoring and OD from the guards. I think the selections you have made this season gave us lower primary OD and flow skills for the PG~SF..and less RB for the bigs. This is/has been a problem IMO

I will respond several ways to this.

First, we need rebounds at sf because we need rebounding period. If we had monster bigs, taking a CHANCE on a skilled sf with low rebounding would be an option.

I only challenge you to look at the rebounding of SF on the major contendors when they are up for sale. Its nothing against your player, but in a look inside environment, the sacrifice of OD for reb is a logical decision inmy opinion.

Second, as for the playing my players...i only ask you to sort by salary on the NT page. I have 3 of the top 6 salaries. Salary is not the end all be all, i will give you that. But it matters. certainly it does.


Lastly, look at the rebounding distribution in our last game.(23535)

We had 4 guys get 7 rebounds, after that only 3 other players even got one. Look at our opponent.

Look at the NZ game (23532)

We had a combined 92 mins of non PF/C/Asano game time...and 4 rebounds there.

Bottom line is, rebounding is expected in elite countries. Its not even a point of discussion. When we are going up against SG with level 11 reb, SF with level 14s, to say that i am over valuing rebounding is not necessarly fair.

This game punishing you when you give up Orebs.

We outrebound Singapore, we win that game. That simple.

I will also say, i just dont trust the blank line up as much as others.

The randomness is good to a point, surely.

But for the end game, there is such a risk of having guys in the wrong place. I just dont trust it as much as i probably should.

Ill put it this way. If my flaws as the NT "coach" is spending to much time setting the lineup over just selecting the 12 best guys for the game and running a blank, so be it.

If that is where i am failing the NT squad, i can easily "fix" that.

The bottom line is, however, NT Japan is still looking for its new generation of elite players. At best we have half of an elete player in Furusawa.

We will get there soon enough. But truth be told, me need more MVP's +. For the simple fact that they just dont max out. You know what is happening next door in china. We all know.

There is not finesse way around it. We need the stats to compete.