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1. What skills are you looking for in your starting SG?

OD and PS. And lots of it. Jon mentioned hoping to have more traditional SG builds available. I'm not against having such players as additional options, but my observation is that these type of guards just end up being bad chuckers playing LI. I think, guardwise, the first priority of the U21 coach is to have a stable of players who can play effective LI.

2. In a LI, what kind of SF do you prefer, Marshall Ray type or Herbert Jones type?

Is this a trick question? The Cabal put you up to this? These were both similarly effective players...Ray with better outside skills (OD, HA), and Jones a better inside scorer (IS, DR). But they both were roughly equally effective this season. Offensively both had similar FG%. Defensively Jones was better stopping guys 34% vs 41% for Ray...although that stat is a bit deceptive since Ray defended a ton more IS attempts than Jones. I think having the slight inside/outside contrast with the players was a good thing for tailoring match ups to the opponents. So overall I can't say that I would prefer one of those guys to the other since they seemed to work well as a tandem.

3. Whats your gameplan for our epic matchup with Guatemala on Christmas Eve?

Drinking 8 eggnogs and drunkenly changing the tactics at the last minute to Princeton/FCP because, man, that would just be freaking hi-larious!

1. 14 JS 13 JR 15 OD 12 HA 14 DR 11 PA 5 IS 4 ID 5 REB 3 SB 3 ST 11 FT

2. Great question but I don't think it would matter. They both have good OD but Ray seems to have better ID but worse JS and/or JR. In the end I would pick someone like Marshall Ray because my goal is defense.

3. On offense LI then on defense I would let you guys decide. My objective is to work with our center and power forwards so LI is perfect but defense I'm still undecided so I would let you guys decide that. After we win I'm then gonna enjoy a 10+ pound ham.

1. Ideally a top shooting guard would something like 14/14/14/10/11/10 by the beginning of their 21 year old season. That's basically Lucas at the start of his 21yo season, taking the extra passing and moving it to JR and the extra OD and moving it to JS. Basically I'm looking for more JS/JR. You need a fair amount more, though, or else you get players like Donnie McDaniel, who fewmit was describing when he mentioned "chuckers who play LI". I'd rather have another point guard than one of those players. But a great shooter like Jonathan Yi or Jimmie Brown could be a valuable asset, I think.

2. Jones really wasn't a better defender than Ray on any level. Same IS, -5 OD, +1 rebounding, +1 SB. Not a big difference, so the FG% allowed was definitely deceptive. Jones had +2IS and much better driving, like fewmit said. So Ray's defense and Jones' offense complemented each other nicely. The thing about Jones is, he was 7'0" and started with 4 OD and 3 PA according to (196854.112). He also had at least two 2-week injuries that I can recall, one at the end of his 20 year old season and one while he was on the team. So if he had started with better OD/PA and/or if he hadn't been injured, he could have been significantly better. Overall, like fewmit said, they work very well together and it would be nice to have a player like each of them, but I'm probably more intrigued by the Jones-type player.

Ray also didn't help himself by doing his best to lose us the finals single-handed, chucking up shots and missing them. He had a problem all season with taking threes and jump shots and missing them. Neither Ray nor Jones had great JS/JR, but Jones at least could score inside so he wasn't shooting as many jump shots. A future Ray-type player would probably need more JS/JR and slightly less IS, instead of the jack of all trades, master of none skill set he had.

3. Call up 5 random scrubs (probably all from my team of course) to play so the regular guys can go home and spend Christmas with their family. ;)

To answer your question my criteria for a U21 player will be high so that way when I'm done with the U21 players they'll go right on on the the NT. My managing style will be VERY interactive! I will go with the LI but defensively the USA community will help me. I'm always split between defensive tactics and you guys would help me a lot with that.

I told tough this now I'm telling you this. I will have high expectation for the type of players I'll put on this team. So by the time I'm done with them they'll be ready for the NT.

I forgot to add I will be scouting for a few seasons

1. Let's say our best big is 17/17/14 in IS/ID/RB, but he had atrocious FT. Let's also say we were getting out rebounded every game, and there's only 4 weeks left in the season. The owner of this player asks you what you want him to train. What do you tell him? 4 weeks FT? 4 weeks RB? 2 weeks of each? Something else?

2. You've blanked SF for a few games, hoping to get a distribution of minutes between different types of players at SF, but the GE ends up playing this guy: 10/6/4/3/6/2 - 17/15/14/7 there all game. It's looked really nice in the ratings and pp100. But the next team you face plays a guard type at SF, perhaps this guy: 12/8/14/11/11/11 - 10/7/6/4. Do you keep rolling with the blank lineup, or do you start the best true SF you've got: 11/7/12/10/10/11 - 10/10/7/4 ? What else would you consider in this decision?

Vote for Coco. That is all.

Will either of my trainees have a good shot at the U21 Starting SF slot, and if hired what training would you want me to do with them this season?

Jacob Martinez
William Miranda

Thanks

Edited by jfarb, remove skills, sorry man

Last edited by jfarb at 11/30/2012 6:36:20 PM

1. 3 weeks of FT and 1 week of RB. I think FT is very important so I would want the FT close to the mediocre+ but the RB is one of the most important parts of basketball so I would train in RB for at least just 1 week. If the best big gets that 14 to a 15 RB then he'll be a beast

2. I would go for the best true SF. His secondary skills may not be great but the OD is good so I would use him to shut down the guard like SF. I would also consider their tactics. For example if they go for motion I would easily choose my best true SF however if they go for LI or even LP then it would be a tougher decision because the first guy has nice secondary skills.

But what if their JS/JR combos aren't good enough against other championship-caliber U21s, and they end up chucking jumpers all game long?