Saw an amazing PF for Serbia for sale the other day... (14924112)
His JS/OD/Dr/IS/Ha were all ridiculously high (17-19). His Rb/ID/SB/Pa around 12...
What a pity we don't have a player like that, oh wait we do but he never plays. Just kidding Eita has 1 obvious big flaw but he is very close or better in 5/7 of those.
Please don't get all angsty on me again, but the reality of that is that if you have a guy like that - ON HIS LONESOME - then he's more bane than boon. As the rest of the comment stated (the bit that you left out) - it would require an entire team built around that type of concept... not merely a solitary guy who would create more problems than he solves. Honestly? If your guy IS built like that - then I kinda understand why he's not getting run.
I applaud you having a creative build tho' - and if more of us get on board with that kind of thinking, then I think we'll be moving on a path towards either greater success, or glorious failure. But I do believe we have to try something, because the *vs Russia* game just proved that we're near about at our plateau.
Ochi did do pretty well... but I have to admit to wondering why on earth isn't Kawagichi getting some run? Hell, the line-up had some pretty odd choices at the point at times. I'm assuming it was a complete blank, so the GE went to some insane levels of trying to find an appropriate answer there. Surely having a 110k point guard - even as a back-up - might help a lil'.
"Tsunami looked great"? You're only reading boxscores, right? I watched the game, and the team did not "look great" when Tsunami was at the guard spots. It created more mismatches in a game where we already had plenty of them to cope with. As wolph said - he's built to be an SF. And when playing there, he did do well.
No offense to Kishita, but he was rarely on vs starters. All of our bigs were woefully out-matched... but we weren't "let down" by anything. The reality is that at any position - at NT level - if you are running more than twice the salary with the same tactics, in all likelihood you're going to win.
Regardless of who was playing at the 4/5 slots, vs Russia's million+ dollars of bigs, they were going to get slaughtered.
Question for Swoosh: was that a complete blank?
And dude... don't get me wrong - I have no problem with the result. Please don't think I'm calling you into question on the game. Regardless of anything you tried, that result was inevitable.
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