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Hard to say when we don't know how much worse the younger players are, but I trust your judgement

Keep up the good work =)

Im for a hard cut, especially if its players who would come off the bench. Boost the younger players experience and get the owner/manager into the idea of maybe training for the national team with a specific skill and so on.
Martinsson will be 36 next season?, the drops are gonna come hard then, hell be a shadow of himself :)

Not an easy call, but sooner or later theres a generation shift. The current u-21, looks pretty promising so if you stick around for them to grow up, we could have a nice team.

Edit: Just saw that the higher salery players in u-21 were low potential players... so maybe not that promising after all :/

Last edited by rufferto at 1/8/2017 8:18:48 AM

@Ahlstroem

Could a combination be an option?

It will be a part of a combiation. With Widerström and Tjädermo at least two 33y/o will play. Everland is almost a safe call too. Tuikkala maybe too. Your Sandbom, if he keeps his skills, could make the cut. But only the next weeks can tell us.

@Manon
Good idea with the DMI! I haven't thought about it and I will start tracking their DMI.

@KasparL

Hard to say when we don't know how much worse the younger players are

Guards:
We are talking currently of a difference of appr. 10 total skill points. The possible new players for next season are: Smol and Carlsson

SF:
The difference here is bigger. The possible SFs like Sunesson, Carlsson and Stjärnland lack 20-30 TSP.

Bigs:
This area is maybe the strongest. With Birgersson we have a still young player. Öby could play as a back up for at least 2 seasons. Westerlund, Lagerhall, Danielsson, Dehllund, Tjäderborg and Johansson are only the top of the future bigs. But these players are still very young (22-24) and have TSP around 90-100.

@rufferto:
Yes, Martinsson and Mazzolini are already weakened. And I really don't know of these two will make it to the next season. They had some nasty downs.

Just saw that the higher salery players in u-21 were low potential players... so maybe not that promising after all

I wouldn't say so. We have around 10-12 promising players in the group 22-25 years. And some younger ones like Höster and Martinsson (there is a new one in the making ;) ) train really fast and will make it.

Maybe it is sufficient to keep the old players who is only marginally better than their alternative on the bench out of the team. Having 6 young players as the fill out players might make it rather easy during the season to replace players who has skill drops as well.

Todays game against Austria was the decisive game if we can reach second place.
After the first quarter everything looked like we were going to win it. But from the second quarter onwards we gave the game out of our hands. Austria started shooting and scoring their 3points and we couldn't score on our side. During the game only Birgersson and Fredriksson could bring the needed power. Säfen had a lot of problems against their OD.
Before the game I took a look at our players and wanted to play LI. But as I knew, the austrian NT and staff would scout us and propably go with a LI GDP. And they used it. Despite their minus on defense we couldn't use it. And that's a big hit. We had an extremly strong Game Shape and the false GDP on our side and still we coudl use it only for one quarter.

The posts from you for the last days gave me some important input and I will take your ideas.
The managers of the most promessing players will get mails during the next days. We will discuss some needed skills. I started tracking the DMI for the older players. For the next weeks there will be some new nominations for the NT.

Last edited by Nachtmahr at 1/9/2017 4:07:06 PM

Sorry folks. Good Luck for the next games 👍

@LordWoody: With your HCA we will take a little rest next game and try to win one of the last two games 😉☃🎅🏼

The next two scrimmages will be U27 games. The first one against Bosnia, the second one against Bulgaria.
I will test our younger squad and look how well they are already.

Our two scrimmages with the young guys are played. the first one was against a older team of Bosnia, the second one against a U27+ecxeption team from Bulgaria.

What we learned until now:
- we are moving to a pretty well 3pt shooting team. 17-30 (57%) in RnG and 3-4 (75%) in LI are strong numbers. it's clear that with enthusiasm 1, there is no defense, but the direction is the right one
- Säfén and Birgersson are our two center pillars. They have the highest TSP and play already on a high level. If nothing bad happens (e.g. their managers sell them) the NT will have two exellent guys
- Danielsson and Westerlund played some great minutes and showed the stuff I hoped to see. They are different kind of players and with them we can go outside or inside.
- our outside cast is still a little bit shacky. Sunesson, Stjärnland and Carlsson are on the right way but still miss here and there some skills.
- we are not the best rebound team. There were periods, where we got outrebounded. I'm not sure if it was only because of the enthusiasm. But time will show.

Next Monday we play a U25 game against Germany. After some cheating with Birgersson's documents, he will play too He just looks younger than he is, so it's oaky.
After that we will play against Croatia. I don't know if this will be a U27 game of if I will try to go with the best possible team of established NT players and some of the young ones.

Illka will be working on his SB to bring that rebounding up to par. Always easier to rebound a contested miss after all.

Very excited about his first action! 10 more years!