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I have my speech up in the forum now so please read it and come back with questions. Remember England is done with mediocrity it's time to step it up.

I understand you have already chosen your candidate but you don't have the right to tell us how to vote, even if some candidates are pretty weak for the moment.

Where Did I say you MUST vote for eminence?? Vote for whomever you want.

Hey... that's a pretty good idea ;) What time are Englands games?

Also, a question I've never asked before, does the BB clock adjust to your time zone or did I just get lucky to be in the central time zone?

Working with the community is my number one priority. I plan on making a website strictly for English buzzerbeater users to share tactics and to expand the English community. Of course I would communicate with other users during they're games to get then enthusiastic about the national team. Morwood, you being the U21 coach, you are crucial to the senior teams success. Especially with the amount of young potential this team has. You would be my #1 contact, we would have to be in touch if I were elected. Why do you think USA doesn't win world championships? Because not enough of the community cares about the national team. Thank you for the question Morwood.

Bell, given your lower experience in BB and at NT level, and almost no interaction with the English community prior to your speech. Can you tell me why I should vote for you in preference to the existing coach who is standing again?

Where has the existing coach gotten you? I call success competing with top teams in the world. I plan on building a squad for seasons to come with the help of our U21 coach and the entire community. I'm offering to unite this community and really involving managers in the national team because that is what I believe creates a successful squad. As for my experience as I've said I played from season 11-15 and won 2 championships and I've played seasons 19- present and have won 1 championship. I understand tactics very well and many managers do not understand how and when to rest players I assure you I know how and as manager I am not afraid to ask major teams in the community for they're opinions on tactics. Thanks again for the questions. I'm glad the English community cares who they're manager is.

He's actually done all you say you are going to do.

He lead the U21s, rebuilt the player base, united much of the community and we like him a lot. He's had two seasons as NT coach to work with the players he developed, and is still developing. Most of us are going to give him a chance to continue in this job and improve the results, he's earned it. You are the Bobcats in this election - a MASSIVE underdog.

I actually said to Eminence (about Season 15), if your ambition is to be England NT coach, be an assistant first and stick around the community adding value for a while before you make a run.

I offer you the same advice. Offer to be an assistant, add value for a while, consider making your case as U21 coach, prove you can develop players - then ask us whether we want you as our coach.

A question for all the candidates. When is a 2-3 zone an effective defense?

Not often. But after running some tests with Revo and Belgium over the offseason I believe it could be effective in a situation where we know the opposing team is going inside and is using guards/forwards who cannot shoot. As shown in our scrimmages the 2-3 will force the shots to the outside spots(PF will also take some if he has reasonable JS). However players will hit their outside shots at a much higher rate than normal. Note Hongs 12-23 3-3 from deep game where he scored 27 while Sharpling went 10-14 for 25 points, you just won't see those numbers against a man to man.

However the 2-3 won't turn a nonshooter into a sharpshooter all of the sudden; Palit going 8-23 in our three games against the zone.

It seemed to me that LP did a better job of distributing shots to the PG/SG/SF and even PF against the zone, while a LI led to the PG/SG shooting almost exclusively.

In fact I think I'll just put all the shooting data for guards here(against the 2-3 of Belgium, using LP twice and LI once):
Palit 8-23 1-6
Sharpling 11-17 1-4
Hongs 17-34 5-8
Gascoigne 27-47 6-12

So basically anyone who could shoot at all shot over 50% from the field, and Hongs/Gascoigne(!) lit it up from deep(I'll attribute Sharplings 1-4 to not being a very big sample size).

So in sum to be effective they'd have to have some really really bad shooters at the PG/SG spots. I also think I'd only be comfortable using it against the LI.Outside players(which many of these LI dominate teams have) with IS also seemed to dominate in the LP games, with Gascoigne scoring almost at will.

I would happily take an assistant coaching spot here in England if Eminence is re-elected. I offer that to Eminence if would take me in as an assistant. I can learn a lot more, but I believe I can take this team much further than it is now if you elect me to be the manager. Also to answer the question a 2-3 defense is an inside focus and rebounding defense. It's good to use if you have a big man center. Also if the opposition runs an inside focus offense.