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1) The offsite has been very important for our recent success. For those who followed the gameplanning for the gold medal game saw how important it is to hear multiple perspectives. This is a cabal with an open door. I hope every usa manager joins the offsite. There is room for everyone with an open mind ar the offsite. 3 worlds gold medal cant be wrong.

2) i have been involved with the development of the Season 31 worlds team on thr offsite. I also volunteered for scouting in Season 28 but others had wanted to do 18 years old so I was assigned a different age group. I also trained a player in the pipeline, Mick sterling, who, before I passed off to another usa owner last season, was one of the top guards skills wise that we were monitoring on the offsite.

I dont have access to the nt database so I can only comment on the guys posted in the pipeline thread, but I am a little concerned about that uncertainty which is a begin reason scouting was the first part of my platform. Im very anxious for the election to be over so I can begin to scout. I plan on doing most of the 20 year olds myself.

I am also planning on acquiring 2 bigs to train this week for the season 33 worlds team.

I have been working hard the past few seasons trying to train players for national teams, and I'm always on the lookout for USA 18 year olds. I have a lot of experience with big men, as you can see if you look at my current roster. All 4 of my current big men i have trained myself. I am currently in a rebuilding phase, so i can focus 100% on the U21 team.

Does Coach K have a BuzzerBeater account?

i wish

To all candidates:

Our U21 has utilized a wide range of tactics, strategies, game styles, and plans over the last few seasons. More often than not to decent effect. However there is always room to improve, and more importantly, steal ideas. Have you noticed anything that other U21 programs have done in recent seasons that the US team might be wise to consider and appropriate?

Don't get me wrong E.B.W. did an awesome job but I think if we go with any of the guys in the offsite that were active we'll pick up right where we left off. Almost every game thread had 40-50 different messages with people contributing their notes and ideas. As great as E.B.W. was for the USA(and believe me I'm not trying to take anything away from what he did), I think anybody who read those threads would agree the best part about that gold is that really was a community effort that got us there.

I agree to your point MadJordan, that why i will create a forum for suggestions and comments from the USA citizens if i am elected as the manager.

Well, it seems to me national and even top teams (ex. NBBA) dominace comes from big inside men. I have some experience with training big men, and I can scout and find some top notch big man talent. I will also encourage other USA members, but not all, to train big men, as it seems that even our rival Italy uses the inside game a few times. I think if we can find some high level big men than we can develop a strong force to stop. Although we also need some USA managers to train some solid guards as well, because i've also noticed that most U21 teams have high big men salaries and skills, but fairly poor guard skills and salaries. I think we should remained balanced, with a little bit of big man game bias. That will be a solid plan for victory

There already is a forum for this purpose, among other things, located at http://s3.zetaboards.com/BuzzerBeater_USA_NT/index/ . All USA managers are encouraged to join and leave input!

There already is a very active offsite community. General Manager Nick jump in there and take a look around. Definitely take notice of all the communication/scouting/planning that went into the U21/NT games.

I think the hardest team to prepare for was the Philipines. Big props to Morwood on taking them to a bronze medal this year. They were a big pain because of the way that they moved Musa around in the lineup and varied their tactics. I think that patient could be something that we add as a once in a while tactic. It's a better GDP complement to Look Inside (Slow vs Fast) than Base or Inside Iso. It would also allow us to exploit the low OD bigs that you see on the U21. Only problem is that we need someone to train a JS/JR monster. We didnt really have that last season so it wasn't a viable option.