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Good luck. Great job so far. Go all in vs Germany and bring us the home court :)

Yeah a second round of bb-mails is in order ^^

Yeah. I havent done any scouting (maybe will find time over the weekend but not sure), but if you think they are clearly stronger then just risk with full GDP and look for mismatches imho. Lets see how GS update goes

They are not clearly superior, I'd say we are even in terms of roster, maybe we have a tiny edge on the starters but they seem to have a bit more depth. The thing is they have the home court advantage (which we can't have until the end of the competition no matter what happens - we're the worst seeded team remaining) and supposedly better enth, I think it will be close and come done to details such as GS.
I must say ours has been great so far, I'm pleasantly surprised after the fiasco 2 seasons ago, but there's always one starter with poor GS (Cockayne these days...), that's a bit frustrating to not be able to play the best "theoretical" team.

Game against Germany underway. A bit surprised with their team effort (too cocky? we'll see...!), but they are ahead @HT.
First quarter was really bad, -10 in the end, and 4 fools for Cockayne! (starting C). 2nd quarter marginally better, we came back to -4 but missed a few opportunities in the last minute and back to -7. Could have been worse I suppose...! Hopefully Pietschmann (backup PF/C) can step up to replace Cockayne.

After the game, tune up to watch Chile game against Portugal and keep your fingers crossed!


Edit: horrendous third quarter, we're at -18, Cockayne is out and we're out-rebounded badly. I really don't like our chances now

-25 with 6mins left, we're officially out, America's championship in Chile next season

Last edited by Fwinns at 5/29/2017 2:28:15 PM

Well, Americas in Chile it is!

Out of curiosity? How does the depth chart look? I have been out of touch for a while and suddenly see half of people that were on my lists (tried to organize trianing for 18 & 19yo) in the NT :d

well yeah I didn't expect a tie in the final 16 ;) Combined with a wrong GDP (I specifically didn't to use a fast offense because I used it a lot in the past, and our guard GS could have indicated outside offense...), but you crushed us big time, to be honest I didn't expected such a blowout, even at home and with 7-8 enth against 14-15.
Good luck for the rest of the playoffs!

It's a bit of a mixed bag. There are maybe 3-4 really NT worthy players (Jarvis, King, Burimenko) in terms of being able to compete at least to make the worlds repechage, then there are maybe 3-4 players that fall just a bit short and need a tiny bit of work (Cockayne, Almada, Pietschmann, Colesby), 3-4 players that are at their peak and would be awesome backups but end up being starters (Rouillard, Phil Russel Jones, Bevan, Aaron).
In itself it's enough to hussle its way into the semis of the America's championship, but not enough to compete afterwards... And for the consolation tournament luck is a big part of the equation (we lost hosting the America's championship for 1 single point in the first stage if you think about it...!).

The good news is that there are young players on the way. If you look at Cockayne, that will be our starting C for probably the next 7 seasons, and he's already the strongest C I had in my terms as NT coach. Robbie Rob is on his way to be the starting PF after Burimenko retires, Almada and Colesby will replace Madiar and Jarvis/King, and there's another bunch of players not on the roster right now but who will certainly get a spot in the near future. Avila comes to mind, Isaac Lucky as well, Stephen Hall... I need to update the depth chart but all of them are between 24 and 28yo.

HCA next season could have given us the edge and maybe a chance of making it to the finals for a direct qualification to the worlds with a really young team.

Now it's up to the future NT coach, I think personally I'd wait two more seasons, repeat the same plan as during this term (throw away America's, go as far as possible in the consolation tournament), and try to make the worlds when all this new generation reaches 30, but I don't think I can get elected with that kind of plan after it failed miserably this time around ^^

No I wasn't expecting to win with the same effort, I knew it took some mismatches, but I thought the wrong gdp + lower effort would at least compensate a bit for hca and better enthusiasm. Our players didn't exist yesterday, look at Burimenko or Jarvis, those two truely are the best we have and they had strong GS and they where totally dominated, I've never seen that!
I couldn't really use CT two times in a row in case Chile beat Portugal, but even with that we would have lost by what, 15points?! Had I not played CT last week maybe it would have been a bit closer (but I have doubts now!), but I didn't expect Slovenia to only play normal...
Anyway good luck for the remainder of the playoffs, now I know that in the consolation tournament you also need hca for the second stage ;)