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He was playing D2 in italy but the team went bot, not just JBBL where it happens.

Nice win in the scrim tonight & I liked seeing Eita being 1 of the top 2-3 players for the second week. :)

Last edited by Lord Toranaga at 9/2/2013 11:53:46 AM

Anyone know what's going on with Swoosh? Been MONTHS since he's posted...
Busy with travel - summer holidays?

The end of the summer is busy, but mostly, i get fired up about two or three things in buzzerbeater.

I get fired up about the cup.

I get fired up about the beginning and meat of the NT season.

I get fired up about the playoffs if im in them.

I could spend time picking apart NT games and all but the fact remains, the biggest part of the NT is selecting the team in the beginning of the season. Running the NT team after the season amounts to selecting the roster, and setting a blank lineup. Its kinda of the sad truth of this game as it is.

I learned the first season that tinkering with the lineup too much as well as straying from Look inside is a recipie for disaster.

Dont worry, I check my email. Truth is, i havent gotten any emails about people requesting things from me, just the occasional post.


Our team is in good shape. But the blank lineup / look inside kind sap the excitement from the tail end of the season. Im here. I may or may not run for NT coach next year...but just so everyone knows, the job of the NT coach is decided on training day every Friday.

We get ID, Reb, Passing, IS SB pops, we get better. at this point, the other pops just dont matter as much. It is a sad truth of this game. In theory, we should be worried about teams running Princeton or Run and Gun, but if I can get away with running a 3rd semi-big at SF, it will beat out a well rounded shooter there every time.

What Japan NT really needs is a third big so I can run Yasujiro at SF. and we can move our traditional SFs to SG.

Motivated in what capacity?

People should be sending me players. I havent gotten 5 NT related player emails in my 2 seasons as coach save a couple managers.

Begging people to train stuff? If there is enough player competition its not a problem.

We will see. NT coach should be about managing players and the team.

The motivating part, im not with that. You want an NT player, train him, then hound the NT manager. That's basically how it works everywhere else.

So how ever it turns out, im fine. But lets not pretend the strategy element of this game is what it was. The job of the NT coach is to put the best look inside team that countries' players can put together.

Cool. I'm fine with what you said - was just a tad worried that maybe something had happened.

Two things you said...

What Japan NT really needs is a third big so I can run Yasujiro at SF. and we can move our traditional SFs to SG.

What vision of that do you have for Japan's future? If you see Yasujiro at SF, who's the other big at PF/C? With the risk of sounding a bit conceited, I'm assuming it's K-Mat... what about the other young bigs - Wakatsuki & Kishita?

The motivating part, im not with that. You want an NT player, train him, then hound the NT manager. That's basically how it works everywhere else.

I don't think that's necessarily the truth in other small nations. I know when I coached the Welsh U21 team (quite a bit of difference) I absolutely had to hound owners. Reverse has been the truth with Tim - I'm building him... and every season trying to entice the HK NT manager into taking him on!
I guess my point is, if a player isn't taking the direction you desire, perhaps you should be taking it up with their owner...
Just a thought.

Nah, we got a good group of young talent.

but if we are going to do something to put us over the top, we need a "wrinkle".

It simply amazes me with what Yasujiro has, the game engine just love to play the guy at SF. There is a part of me that wants to coach the NT next year, but with fantasy Football, soon Fantasy Bball and next seasons' cup...im still thinking if i have to time.

I just want the team to stay focused around players between 26-30/31. You can USE 32/33 year olds...but you MUST NOT depend on them.

What Japan NT really needs is a third big so I can run Yasujiro at SF. and we can move our traditional SFs to SG.

What vision of that do you have for Japan's future? If you see Yasujiro at SF, who's the other big at PF/C? With the risk of sounding a bit conceited, I'm assuming it's K-Mat... what about the other young bigs - Wakatsuki & Kishita?

Still interested to hear what you have to say on this...

I hear ya Wolph.

We have a high SB C we could try out in 1-3-1.. and we might mess with patient and see who it picks. We got a few offence only type players.

You also are just running blanks now, like you gave up. Like I said, I was fine if you did or did not run blanks. I am happy with some experimenting you did, I think you were open minded and tried some things...but it seems like you just gave up at the end. If blanks are not working ,run partials. .I see guys in that lineup that to me don't belong there, but you just pick twelve and run blank LI MtM...Not because that is the best option, but becuase it seems, to me, you have given up on finding a better way.

Also you don't need 12 for blank. 10 is fine. If you fill the last two spots with duds that eat minutes cuz the GE can7t see their holes...you shoot yourself in the foot. blank works as few as 9 with balance. With partials you can run 8 and it is awesome.


Nippon NT job is NOT easy, again I don7t want to rag on you. I just don't think you're giving it 100%

I would like to see fresh air next season. Motion, Princeton or at the very least someone who knows LI like the back of their hand and doesn't just run it out of reluctance/resignation. LI works with players built for it. If you just take our best 12 in theory and run them, we wont function well, and we haven't been functioning well...we got too many dudes on that floor with holes in their game. Saiki 10PA? and if you look at those bigs stats (IS/ID/RB/SB) every minute he took at SF was like a nail in our coffin. And the stupid blank is dumb enough to put him at SF AND PG...and he is death for either.

Full blanks is oldschool now. Those in the know have moved onto partials, and they work awesome.

There is a lot more to do for an NT coach than wait around for people to beg for minutes for their player.

i would like to see you try some 1-3-1, motion, princeton etc in your finals matchup with Kawaguchi.

by all means give me an example of how i can go non look inside and make it work.