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Honest answer? Nothing

In a perfect world I'd say that I'd nag the top teams that have disposable cash to buy American if they can. But then I'd be taking Jfarb's job. And truthfully it's hard to convince those managers to take the American player when the player that is more beneficial to their club more is foreign. They all seem to be too stubborn to listen to the merch increase they get for buying/having American.

I'm not going to sugar coat everything to give you all what you want to hear. There are few things that can be done in this regard and all of them would be very difficult to have succeed.

It's Mitch McGary, gosh!

And I wish I got his salary. Think of those bonuses!

In the past your advice on training SF's with sub 8 potential has been to either avoid rebounding or hold it off until the end. Depending on how you want your SF to turn out, that could be good advice. I exaggerated my statement of course but I don't think I'm totally off base when I say that your not a huge advocate of rebounding. Of course that is just with SF's. I have no clue how you value rebounding comparitive to the other big man skills, on your bigs.

ah. well, that was very specific advice. if you have to give something up to avoid capping, rb makes sense because a single pop is very expensive as it relates to the cap. but as someone who regularly has 2 of the top 10 nbba rebounders i can assure you i value rb quite highly.

My mystical fairy-land answer: I will ask them nicely and they will apologize to me, hire a level 7 trainer, and train SB to 22. With 9 GS.

Realistically, we're not. You can just hope stars align and you get a manager with the right mix of resources to keep him in good GS. It's not a million-in-one chance, but occasionally having a good prospect in poor GS is immensely frustrating.

by looking at last years team, i think we have enough talent to win it all. the only problem was the gameplan of the coach. if i'm elected, i will make sure that the gameplan fits the team.

I'm hoping you are sarcastic? If not I'm sure life under the rock was a bit lonely. We won world's last season. Those players are gone. Any questions?

Those players are gone.

And his votes too.

Question for the candidates:

Rambo has a very nice new thread on the offsite listing season 19 (next worlds) prospects. Without looking at the thread (you're on your honor!) name as many of the players as you can off the top of your head.

Question for all candidates. Lately, we have seen a lot of the best prospects in the US hit the transfer list because the owner can not afford their salary (Owens, Bland Luther, exc).

Hey mof,

I don't think this is a big problem with U21. Last season, we only had Felder go on sale while on the team, and we did lose him the rest of the season due to GS issues. Just bad luck I guess. Owens and Bland caused financial troubles for their owners because they held them long term. While it's difficult to hold some of the U21 bigs for the U21 season, most teams usually manage for the season. You'll see a lot of guards (Luther for example) get too expensive in the 22 and 23 year old seasons, but it's not a huge concern for U21.

How do you plan on trying to get the best prospects to trust-worthy managers that can handle high salaries?

Not much you can do. Obviously, a transfer ad will be posted on the off-site, so people will be aware of the sale, but that's about it. It's pretty much on the guy that wants him to outbid everyone else. Can't help there.

A lot of people from the top leagues are not looking to train a US prospect

I would disagree with this. It may seem that way, but remember, there's only 80 teams in the NBBA and D.II combined, while there are 256 in D.III and 1024 in D.IV. In the NBBA alone, Coco had B-Rod for the U21 season, Calum is still training Owens, cws has Hurst, jfarb's got Logsdon, Silverbacks trained Dennison, Rambo is training Rex Perez, and made a serious attempt at purchasing Carson. Czobo trained Ugona, Namssor bought an 18 year old prospect last season and started training... I'm sure I forgot some, but you get the idea.




Last edited by magiker at 11/4/2011 12:43:05 AM

Question for candidates:

By the end of last season we seemed to get away from using "blank" lineups. What are your feelings on blank lineups and how do you plan on using them if at all?

Damn you

Umm

Wade Harder
Ed Sherpard
Rex Perez
Phillip Ojeda
Dane Valenzula
Michael Lavoie
Marcus Miller

Now let me ask you a question. Do Doctors know the name of every single patient admitted in the hospital without looking at their charts?

Last edited by oriolekid at 11/4/2011 5:50:15 AM