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My advice is bring some of the less sensitive information onto this forum.

This will allow users who are not aware of the NT Forums on bb-stats.org to see that you are active in controlling the team.

Also something to work on for both the U21 and the NT is getting Staff organised.
I think involving the community in more than sharing tactics is an important part of the NTs.
Most of the other big NTs are like fully fledged organisations (especially the US, German and Italian leagues)

Australia has been getting right up there with the big NTs since I was the coach in season 3/4 so I think it is definitely time to get a Staff structure in place so Australia as a community can really start to grow together.

Some ideas for positons:
Level 1 - U21 Coach (elected)
Level 2 - Scout Manager (appointed), Tactics Advisor (appointed), Communication Manager (appointed)
Level 3 - Offical NT Scout (appointed)

The tactics advisor should be someone who is known in Australia as a good tactician (for example Shepard is one of the best in the ABBL). This person would consult with the NT manager about the weaknesses and strengths of the opponent and how best to defeat them.

The Scout Manager would develop a strategy on acquiring new players. This person would find people willing to be Official NT Scouts and assign them countries (or continents) to search for new players (using the NT scout feature on bb-stats.org).

The communication manager would be in charge of managing the information on the NT forums and what is made public on the BB Forums

that's what I said during the last election ;)

Very good advice Judge Nik. I absolutly agree with the fact that not everyone will look on the off site forum and may think I am not doing much with the team. I will try and be more involved on this forum without giving away too much.

I think you are right as well in saying its time to really bring it to these bigger nations by becoming more organized. The only problem I have with this is that i'm not sure if we have enough users to fill these positions. Thats why I like using the off site forum as managers can come and go with their opinions. But in saying that I'm going to set up a more organised staff structure.

In an attempt to achieve this I would like managers to start contacting me if they are interested in being a Scout Manager or a Tactics Manager. I will also be contacting a few managers as well who I believe are competent for the position.

As everyone knows I work closely with C-Cat and already have direct support from his group. I also have excellent support from everyone on BB-Stats forum.

Thanks again Judge Nik, Hopefully this is a step towards becoming the greatest basketball country, in at least Buzzer Beater :)

If anyone else has more advice please let me know in this thread.

Thanks

JudgeNik,

I love the BB-Stats forum, and can recommend it to anyone keen to know even more about the U21 and NTs.

Cheers for the undeniable hard work,

Franka

Ok, maybe this is a dumb question, but what sort of level of stats does a player need to be considered for the national team? I know I have no-one now but I do have a spare 300K so is it possible to buy someone for that much who could be trained into a good player some day (if I stop being a noob and learn how to play this game.).

Last edited by yodabig at 10/19/2009 3:46:54 AM

Depends on what position you're training. If you really want to train up a NT player then you'd probably be best of training big men, fairly stocked on guards atm.

300k isn't going to get you much of anything in the current market though unfortunately. Your best bet for now would be getting something good in next season's draft.

Direwolf is right the draft may be the way to go. Just train a player that starts off very well (as many respectables as possible for 18 yo) as well as you can at single position. From their it depends on other players etc to see if he is in contention but good training is all you can really do.

Dear judge nick, i have a player who is been trained well, i want to train him as a SG, i would like suggestions, in how you would want me to train him for the U-21 team? please contact me asap

Nik isn't the coach any more. If you've got a player you think has potential, you'd be best of contacting J-Dog the current U-21 coach or even better, getting on the forums http://www.buzzerbeaterstats.com/phpBB3/

yea best bet is to bb mail j-dog.
will be a bit hard to approve a yank to the aussie forums