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I didn't use anyone with OD as low as Kawagichi last year

I can see a certain 21 year old guard on the TL right now who has Outside Def.: proficient and he played! Kawagichi will be waaaay better then that at the START of next U21 season let alone the end. In fact looking at him Kawagichi is better or equal in everything except JR and ID (which is nice on him).

I didn't use anyone with OD as low as Kawagichi last year, but but if you are training nothing but OD or JR from hear on out single position PG with level 7 trainer, he could start. We also did not use anyone with atleast double his JR in the SG/SF spots....and never a PG taht low in JR before in two seasons.

Another week and he finally got the OD pop. 1 more week of pressure now before some offseason fun with 1 on 1 for forwards. He has been playing really well for me in the JBBL recently as has season averages of 12.1 PPG, 6.2 APG (3rd in the whole JBBL), 4.6 RPG and an impressive 0% from 3 point land, but as I said he doesn't take many and gives the ball to the big men as he should.

He only took 23 3PTs for the entire season about 1 attempt for every 4 assists I would much rather that than someone who had better JR and constantly jacked up bad 3s, took 100+ and made 10-15. I have Sonoda hitting 60% of his FGs this season and Kouzuki hitting 57%. You know where I want the shots to be taken. So really I could be wrong about this low JR theory but this season it sems to have worked. It will be interesting to see how he goes on the U21 team next season, I expect him to take a lot less shots than players like Ikouga but with Ikouga hitting only 23% of his this season do you really want him taking a lot of shots?

USA has an entire team of C and PG players and they seem to have done well, there must be something to it. I am sure there are lots of SGs they could have had but they went with this sort of team and they are 5-1 in the final pool so it seems to work. In their big game against Italy they started PG, PG, C, C, C and had a great win. We should try something like this in one of our scrimmages.

I keep scouring the TL, but there's never anything remotely close to what I currently have... so, I keep 'scouring'.

Normally you are very helpful so I will assume the tone here is just the result of your frustration with your injury.

1) Ikouga is better than Kawagichi. I never claimed otherwise.

2) Kawagichi needs more OD. It wasn't always possible this season and last when I was fighting for the best record in D2 and now trying to stay in in the JBBL to always play him in league which meant lots of 1 on 1 so he and Shin could both play in the scrimmage. For all guards this game starts and ends at OD. Shin is 18 and already has prominent OD, his next best stat is strong. He will hopefully be at least wondrous when he joins the U21 team at age 21. If I was the coach I would almost always go with the player with the best OD.

3) Unless you go through the minutes in detail you can't know who played against whom. It is a good guess but not certain. Also in this game their starting PG played 46 minutes so MAYBE Kawagichi got 2 minutes against someone weaker or maybe not you would have to look at the game log. That he played against a weaker opponent just doesn't seem to be true. Even if in a game he did play more minutes against a backup you also can't know what the defence of the opponent is. The backup could have better defence but maybe be worse in the holy grail, worse JR!!!

4) I suspect you don't really believe you can judge a player by 1 game. If we have to all I can say is Ikouga is brilliant and hitting 2/3 of his shots and getting 17 PTS 8 AST a game will make him one of the best PGs in Asia. But more likely is that Costa Rica sucked, all our starters had great games.

5) I don't want Ikouga injured or in bad GS and Kawagichi is very happy coming off the bench. He has had his season of not even being on the roster while Ikouga got minutes and experience. Now he hopefully gets a turn and he just wants to help.

I was just getting a little annoyed with your way of constantly promoting your players

It is not just you but it is all good. What can I say, I am a stage mother. I will always be promoting my babies.

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I have decided......I will run for the U-21 job next term