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191253.184 in reply to 191253.148
Date: 7/27/2011 9:47:35 AM
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I think there is a consensus that big men are what are keeping us from REALLY competing with the best teams in the world, but I have another question. Given that we only really have one true NT-caliber SF in the entire USA, what are your feelings regarding the position? Do you prefer all-around SFs? Prefer to play guards/bigs there depending on tactics?


I think it depends on the situation. In general I would much rather have an all-around SF that can attack and defend the frontcourt and backcourt. In my year of doing the international scouting for jfarb, I found that Spain and Canada have some awesome all-around SFs that are just scary. We're talking at least 10's and 11's in literally every skill. And the BEST part, is that they're like 60-90k in salary! I would absolutely encourage my fellow Americans to get onboard with this. It's a long, slow, tedious process, but it's SO worth it in the end for the good of your club team and the NT. Now obviously if we're going with unbalanced offenses/defenses, putting a 3rd big or guard would be more likely to have success. It's all about matchups, and I love the gameplanning aspect of BB.

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191253.185 in reply to 191253.183
Date: 7/27/2011 9:51:06 AM
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How do you think of this stuff?

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191253.186 in reply to 191253.182
Date: 7/27/2011 9:53:38 AM
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To all Candidates:

One of the biggest issues I've seen is trying to keep potential NT players on US soil. The best example I can give is last year right after I started, there were two U21 quality players in my draft, my own top draftee and another player Norman Sloane.
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/19242529/overview.aspx

He got trained for only 4 or 5 weeks last year after being bought by a Finnish team and is now doing nothing but sitting there.

My question is, do you have any plans on how to get the USA community more involved in keeping our young prospects on home soil?

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191253.187 in reply to 191253.184
Date: 7/27/2011 9:54:41 AM
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I know you were jfarb's assistant last year and scouted opponents tactics and players. Are you going to continue to do this if you are elected NT coach or will you give this job to someone else?

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191253.188 in reply to 191253.165
Date: 7/27/2011 9:55:32 AM
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Here's my question for the candidates....

We now have an active offsite forum with many options being weighed prior to every game. Ultimately, the decision will come down to the winner of this election. If the entire community is going against your tactical choice(roster, sub patter,tactics all included), will you stick to your guns and push forward anyway?


The NT Management position is very social as well. You will be interacting with the community and trying to grow the community, but you will also be communicating with other NT Coaches. What are your thoughts on mTIEs during the tournaments? Would you be willing to break an agreement and what circumstances would make you consider it? Basically, is winning more important than your reputation?


- I think the funny thing is that we have so many people voicing opinions on the offsite now, that there might never be a time when the NT coach goes completely against the entire board haha. But yes, I have to do what I think is best for the team. I always take everyone's opinion seriously, but when it comes down to it, I was elected for a reason. People put their faith in me, so I expect to reward them with doing what I feel is best for the team.

- When I was the NT manager for New Zealand for 6 seasons, I developed plenty of relationships with other countries. You know what they say "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer!" But no, I really did it because we shared a bond and it was fun to talk about our individual strategies for our countries. I will certainly maintain that as the USA NT coach.

- mTIEs are strategic and necessary sometimes. I have no problem with them. I have never and will never break a mTIE agreement. That's just not who I am. This is just a silly game, but I have more integrity than that.

From: GM-namssor

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191253.189 in reply to 191253.166
Date: 7/27/2011 10:04:01 AM
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So, I always ask the same question, but I'll put a slightly different spin on it this time.

It's the worlds. Getting into the semifinals requires us to win the last game. With a normal it's 55/45 in our favor. With a TIE it's Y/(100-Y), with Y<50.

What is the largest Y such that you'd rather normal?



A lot of outside factors such as current enthusiasm, likely semifinal opponent, likelihood of winning it all are out there, but I would say Y would have to be around 40-45. I don't like going into any make-or-break game as a huge underdog (duh). Building enthusiasm is nice, but not at the risk of not making it to the next round. I don't think a Normal mortgages the future rounds too badly.

Now if it were like this year's Worlds where we knew we'd likely play Poland in the semis, then I could take Y down to 25 or 30%. That's more of a "go big or go home" scenario where we would need every ounce of enthusiasm to defeat the Goliaths. I'd rather we have a fighting chance at making the finals rather than saying "but hey at least we made it to the semis!".

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191253.190 in reply to 191253.183
Date: 7/27/2011 10:05:57 AM
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1. Communications- I am not a shy person and as manager I want ot communicate with my country as much as possible to try to get input and more support.

2. I do not really have a special tactic, it depends on the strengths of my team. I only do not like to use outside/inside iso and box and one

3. Yellow

4. Pro-choice people can decide what to do with their baby.

5. I plea the 5th

6. http://www.buzzerbeater.com/match/8495746/boxscore.aspx I beat a great team and manager, I defiantly would lose to them today!

7. Virgo

8. good, perserverence, clever

9. None of the above

10. Zaza Pachuilla, I love when he starts fights

11.single

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191253.191 in reply to 191253.186
Date: 7/27/2011 10:13:12 AM
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To all Candidates:

One of the biggest issues I've seen is trying to keep potential NT players on US soil. The best example I can give is last year right after I started, there were two U21 quality players in my draft, my own top draftee and another player Norman Sloane.
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/player/19242529/overview.aspx

He got trained for only 4 or 5 weeks last year after being bought by a Finnish team and is now doing nothing but sitting there.

My question is, do you have any plans on how to get the USA community more involved in keeping our young prospects on home soil?


Yes, a way to solve this problem is getting more people interested in the NT and U21 team. This way they want to contribute to the teams. Also by telling them that if they have a player on one of them teams it brings an economic boost. Also having a US player bring a merch. boost because fans like buying US born players' jerserys.

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191253.192 in reply to 191253.172
Date: 7/27/2011 10:15:49 AM
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@GM-Jason & @nammsor - IMO you two are the top candidates so far. In an attempt to separate you two, I have three questions :

1) If Lundy had been walking on the street for days, 3 weeks late for a shower, and STILL not in 9gs, do you offer to pick him up?

2) How far in advance do you think its necessary to game plan when considering call ups and enthusiasm? With a limited roster before it hurts overall enthusiasm, what might your strategy be?

3) What use would you get out of the offsite? Regardless of what you use for it now, what would your plans for the future be?


1 - I would pick Lundy up, and promptly drop him off at the gym so he can get a shower and get into better Game Shape.

2 - When I was the manager of New Zealand's NT for 6 seasons, I tried a few different methods of callups. My first go-round I just added 16 or 17 players right away, not really knowing what I was doing. As the season progressed, I found new talents and realized how dumb that strategy was. So now I'm a fan of starting off slow, with 12-14 players in the early stages of qualifying and working in new players as injuries or GS or tactics dictates. Especially in the early Americas stages, we don't need to be overly robust with our roster.

3 - The offsite is the end-all be-all of the NT. Everything is there that we need. It's a phenomenal community we're building and I'm proud to see how it's grown since I joined it way back in early 2009. I even remember the old offsite that we had before the current one. Every gameplan will be up there, I'll be asking for volunteers for an assistant coach and international scout, much like I was last season for jfarb.

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191253.193 in reply to 191253.178
Date: 7/27/2011 10:18:13 AM
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Namssor has experience at being a NT manager so it won't be new to him. He was successful at NZ, surely he deserves a chance at USA NT. Jason can wait for now.


Thanks dude. I think we have almost the entire Big 10 covered in this thread now!

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191253.194 in reply to 191253.185
Date: 7/27/2011 10:20:56 AM
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I DONT KNOW( imagine i said that with the same tone of Brick from Anchor man when he was asked where he got that hand grenade)...lol I just figured I'd start today off with some very serious grilling questions so we as attentive voters can accurately choice the guy we have to put up with for two more seasons

We have a lot of great outside shooters. Unfortunately, we play all our games indoors.
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