I feel like I'm talking to myself here, as the other candidate is like a ghost.
I will answer all questions here.
The major threats to us in the Asia division are China and the Philippines, as well as up and comers in Taiwan and Hong Kong. China and the Philippines and big man heavy, and play look inside almost exclusively, as they ALWAYS have the advantage in that department. Taiwan and HK tend to be balanced teams, so we can match up evenly with them. The only way to seriously combat China and the Philippines is to ensure our big man can hold their own. A few seasons ago (4-6) to be exact, we had a bumper crop of big men, the majority of which made it to the NT. The last few seasons I think the draft hasn't been too kind to our active training managers so the talent has been a bit thin, also the focus on secondaries has made our primaries a bit weaker, with triple wondrous running around against triple prodigious + of the heavyweights. I hope to ensure that we have a good balance of both, but at center I'd ideally like a salary beast, whilst at PF I'd prefer a bit of versatility. I think it's hard to combat nations with farm teams, so it's unlikely we could ever really take them head on, but with some good luck and fantastic training/draftees, we could do it.
In regards to skills, it really depends. In international competition, everybody needs to be able to defend and score, it's that simple. A non scoring player is pretty much useless. There's no preferred skill, it really depends on the position and player, but the guards need the standard JR/JS/OD/PA, whilst the forwards and bigs need the standard ID/RB/IS/SB.
I know what I'm looking for in each position, similar to my young guys as they were maturing, and I hope to help train similar players for the U21 NT and future NT players in a similar mould.
Experience isn't that prominent or obvious at U21 level, most are pitful through to inept in the U21.
Jone Bogan's manager was very silly. Don't know why he reacted the way he did. I'll still play him, I'm the coach, I decide what's best for the team. Unless he's ruining game shape of course..
If I was to create an ideal team, it would consist of many combo guards, I love passing and to have PG's with high passing and SG's who can play PG make the world of difference when mixing up tactics. SF's are rarely mature by this stage but I'm looking for ID/OD and JS/JR combos.
I like PF's with JS/JR/PA as high secondaries, and at least 13/13/13 in primaries, and I'm looking for bigs with 14/14/14 at least by the age of 21 to combat the heavyweights.
Hopefully this answers most of the questions.