Creativity:
I feel like I was too conservative and didn't take as many risks with the NT as I do with my club team. This is in part due to the available player pool: I just feel like we lack any real specialists that would let me do some of the wackier things that would be appealing. We have very few pure shooters, no clear specialist SF and our big men are all fairly balanced (i.e. no legendary rebounder or inside scorer). If I ever manage to get S. Milot's JS up then I think that he, paired with the EAK that I anticipate developing, will give us the option of running a pretty interesting inside attack but that is at least eight weeks away and we lack the big men to really pound the ball inside consistently.
Our relative strength at SF/PF (when healthy) also made me impose some limitations on myself that are somewhat questionable in retrospect. I personally think that the SF and PF spots are where you can make some interesting roster choices to create mis-matches or try to really focus the team, but when TSA is healthy I think he's one of our best players so I felt reluctant to move him out to put Wendon at SF (I was also scared of who could back up Abbott) at play motion, and TSA, along with Guest, are our best inside scorers so moving him to SF and putting a centre at PF didn't make a ton of sense when it comes to inside scoring.
I am all for hearing some interesting suggestions tactically if you've got them.
Enthusiasm:
Here's another place where I really dropped the ball. I was convinced (perhaps correctly) that our only shot at qualifying for worlds was to go into the knock out round at max enthusiasm. Maybe I was right, but without going normal in some games I didn't even given us any hope at all of qualifying for the knockout round. I need to do a better, smarter job with enthusiasm this year.
Communication:
I could have been better with communication, particularly after the half way point in the season. Unfortunately, that is partially the result of simply having neither the time nor the creative energy to devote to that aspect after my partner fell ill.
HPP, Mogul and Rip all know this, but for everyone else I would just like to remind you that you can't imagine the insane amounts of inane, stupid, angry or indecipherable messages that you get as a NT manager.
Players on the way out:
Moran will not be added to the team until I can track his GS for a few weeks. There's no point on having him sitting on the bench taking up a roster spot if he sits at inept - average GS all season again.
G. Milot is likely gone as other guards have overtaken him and he's capped out (although he did somehow pop in driving this season!).
Thomas has fallen out of favour with me due to the oft mentioned rebounding/FT problems. I would like to make less use of Ed Mathews and his awful tertiary skills, but I don't know how possible that is given the existing roster options.
Some other players will be added later than expected or may miss out on making it at all due to injuries.