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Hi RabidCamel & Iwen

Those 3 games were the only 3 games Fallon played as a small forward.

The other games he played out of his position so that he would get training minutes either as a centre or point guard, so that I could best maximise his training.

If you notice historically over the last 3 seasons when he has played as a Shooting guard (2nd best position), power forward (3rd best position) or as small forward (best position) he has rated a lot better over good minutes

Small forward seems to have been the weakness of the Australian u21 team all season and because of Fallons all over evenness it is his best position.

Speaking of small minutes, Darcy only played 8 minutes for his rating of 9

Admittedly Stamina is not Fallons strongest asset but I'll give him 48 mins as a powerforward (still not his best position) tonight.

I hope you appreciate I'm not going to completely stuff up my training minutes by playing him long minutes as a small forward just to prove a point especially when J-Dog has a closed mind on the issue

Sid

Last edited by Sid Vicious at 1/19/2010 3:00:41 AM

Sid join the offsite and J-Dog can post exactly why he is not in the team.

SF is a hard spot. Some strategies work best with a SG or PF playing SF.

I don't know his skills. Haven't watched his games. So can't really comment.

You are Div 3 so stats aren't best way to judge. That said. Tos are high.

Games like (18116086) boost up his numbers as well.

Without watching him play or seeing his stats its really hard to say anything sorry.

Ratings aren't everything.

Yeh, please join the offsite forum so we can compare skills and discuss.

http://www.buzzerbeaterstats.com/phpBB3/

Like Coach Bob and Iwen have stated register for the offsite forum and we can discuss it further from there.

With that I encourage all aussie managers to register on the forum that way all areas of the team can be analyzed from all different views. Through open detailed discussions we can then make the best decisions to help the U21NT be as dominant and successful as possible.

Hi Iwen & rabidcamel,

J-dog dropped him from the U21s prior to the 10th season and given I've had the discussion with J-dog I don't hold out any chance of a recall for him to the national U21s. His most recent posts on this forum certainly don't help.

Truth is for the last month or so because of these conversations and the feedback I received, whilst I have still been training Fallon intensively every week, my focus has been on getting pops for my other small forward who will be a champion for Portugals U21s next year.

I would hope that Fallons rating of 9.5 over 48 mins in a lesser favoured position, which don't embrace his skills of Jump range and outside defence, quell your previous comments about his scores coming over low minutes.

My concern is that even learned coaches like yourselves see scores of 7's and 8's and don't click to the fact that he has been played out of position for the last season and a half, so as to best enhance his training.

I find it difficult to believe that he wouldn't rate as well playing as a Small Forward for Australia over 8 minutes as what Darcy did - Gees he almost rated that 2 seasons ago when playing in his second worst position (point gaurd) v Brazil.

True Small forwards are hard to find, most are just shooting guards or Power Forwards.

Coaches like myself who try to train small forwards probably deserve the encouragement & opportunities that countries like Portugal provide

Sid

I wouldn't think that ratings would be that important in deciding the U21 team, more likely that the team was picked based on their skills. Can't really comment how he compares skill wise because i havn't seen his skills to compare to the current team

I'm also training my player as a SF for the U21. J-Dog has also trained a mean SF.

You really shouldn't put us coaches down about not supporting fellow Aussie trainees. These guys work their butts off trying to find the best talent available for Australia and advise coaches on how to best train them. When I came to the off site forum with my young C, they advised me to train as a SF. I took on their advice and it's getting me results.

I don't like the defeatist attitude you exude. Like we suggested, join the forum and discuss the options there. J-Dog has already stated that a SF needs to have 20+ combined in inside and outside defense. He also needs to be a passer, rebounder and shooter. If you don't want to be involved and would rather sprout drivel about our lack of support, then so be it.

And yes, I did check his games to see what positions he was played in. I can see from that you are trying really hard to train him, but the fact is, he's too far behind at his age to make the U21 team or the national team. He may become a great player for you, but that's about as far as it will go.

I could make the exact same arguments you are now with regards to this player:

Sam Clune: http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/8158412/overview.aspx

I've played him out of position pretty much every game in the last year to give him good training. He's putting up similar ratings out of position to your guy. Salary was very similar last year, too. But he just wasn't quite good enough. It happens.

Given i have been involved in the selection discussions and scouting for both the U21 and senior NT's i can promise you that i have never once looked at player ratings. It's all about player skills not ratings.

If you are not interested in joining the offsite forum sid you are more than welcome to BB mail his stats to me and i will give you a comparison to those of the other players in both NT's so you can see where your guy is missing out.

Hi,

I am a new player here and have been reading this forum, was wondering if it would be alright if I could join in the conversation on the national teams in the offsite forum, I have joined the offsite forum, unless its adifferent one. So if you could let me know what else I need to do.

Thanks

Once you are signed up just log in and click on the board index link and then start looking the the Australian section. I was just looking at the user list and you are not registered there as mattylf so if you let me know what name you signed up as i will make sure you are registered on the site.