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No chance. As stated before, I'm stepping down from the Welsh job because of time constraints in my job. Japan'd be a significantly bigger job than Wales.
I am going to be busier this year than I've been for the last... well, perhaps ever.

I think we agree on almost everything.

Wakatsuki: obviously us having a debate about him where you can see his skills and I can't you will be right and I will be wrong. All I can go on are his salary, ratings, positions trained and stats. With him the salary is good, ratings 11-12 are ok. He has low fouls, low assists but still higher assists than turnovers. He hits a good FG%, doesn't block many shots and is a little low in rebounds. Obviously I have little idea about the quality of play in Polish division IV but I am assumung it is like 2/1 here minus the top team or two. From that I have to guess stats and if his secondaries are all low then I am wrong. I couldn't tell what they trained when he played PF (most of last season) so the assumption is 1 on 1 for forwards. But that could be incorrect.

I have constantly had this same debate that a lot of secondaries are worth more than a few primaries. My players are not like that right now (being all local but 1 I have to take the best I can) but when I am ready to make a run I will be finding players like that as my 2 imports. I probably have 1 "salary"monster on my team right now in Tsumemasa Kurogane but he is only $30k and was the first goodish local big man I found. He will certainly be upgraded sometime.

Kawagichi: I hope you are wrong. I can't find the player but a while ago in 2/1 there was a $100,000 + PG who dominated the league, I think he was a USA player but I can't find him. He was a defensive terror and racked up assists like crazy. I was amazed to see when he was sold he had very low JR. I had always assumed it was critical for a PG. Except for Rondo I can't think of an elite PG who can't hit a 3. But it made me think, here things are different. JR is such a salary and potential drain, maybe I could have guards without too much of it who instead drive to the basket.

I can't link to guys on the TL but as an example (wasn't the guy I was thinking of) there is a USA player in Spanish D2 right now with awful JR playing PG with wondrous PA and OD and he mostly takes 1 or 0 3 point shots a game. I assume Spanish D2 is probably much tougher than the average JBBL team.

Anyway that is my theory.

I must have not spoken clearly about the OD pop and forgot 1 week was 1 on 1 for forwards, it was not 0 pops in 6 weeks, next week will be the 6th week, it was only 1 in 4 weeks of pressure, so this week for sure he must be on X.99.

Training him at SF isn't going to happen. He can get the occasional week, but I have the Shinkansen coming Shin Shidehara (24273129) and I can't afford to train both as inside players, I would get killed in league. Hard enough to train both each week at PG which is why I so often have to do 1 on 1. I can't help Kawagichi's RE but the Shinkansen has atrocious so he will have lots of salary and potential free to hopefully make it to a NT standard guard, unless the standard is much higher then.

Thanks as always for your input.

I didn't use anyone with OD as low as Kawagichi last year

I can see a certain 21 year old guard on the TL right now who has Outside Def.: proficient and he played! Kawagichi will be waaaay better then that at the START of next U21 season let alone the end. In fact looking at him Kawagichi is better or equal in everything except JR and ID (which is nice on him).

I didn't use anyone with OD as low as Kawagichi last year, but but if you are training nothing but OD or JR from hear on out single position PG with level 7 trainer, he could start. We also did not use anyone with atleast double his JR in the SG/SF spots....and never a PG taht low in JR before in two seasons.

Another week and he finally got the OD pop. 1 more week of pressure now before some offseason fun with 1 on 1 for forwards. He has been playing really well for me in the JBBL recently as has season averages of 12.1 PPG, 6.2 APG (3rd in the whole JBBL), 4.6 RPG and an impressive 0% from 3 point land, but as I said he doesn't take many and gives the ball to the big men as he should.

He only took 23 3PTs for the entire season about 1 attempt for every 4 assists I would much rather that than someone who had better JR and constantly jacked up bad 3s, took 100+ and made 10-15. I have Sonoda hitting 60% of his FGs this season and Kouzuki hitting 57%. You know where I want the shots to be taken. So really I could be wrong about this low JR theory but this season it sems to have worked. It will be interesting to see how he goes on the U21 team next season, I expect him to take a lot less shots than players like Ikouga but with Ikouga hitting only 23% of his this season do you really want him taking a lot of shots?

USA has an entire team of C and PG players and they seem to have done well, there must be something to it. I am sure there are lots of SGs they could have had but they went with this sort of team and they are 5-1 in the final pool so it seems to work. In their big game against Italy they started PG, PG, C, C, C and had a great win. We should try something like this in one of our scrimmages.

I keep scouring the TL, but there's never anything remotely close to what I currently have... so, I keep 'scouring'.