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They (HK) showed tonight they are no joke. That was really weird game anyway. Think that was last time France will use motion

It was a weird one. And we only needed France to lose by 1 point to still have a shot at something special. So close...

Anyway, If You and France advance with 2-1 Record with Czech and Canada advancing with 1-2, it wont be terrible. Still need to figure out a way how to beat Hong Kong being an underdog again

Nothing you could do about that. No offensive choice would've been better for us, and, at least in theory, a double GDP guess on defence was way too risky. In retrospect, we could've missed both GDP and had a much better defensive effort if they played a different offence. No idea why look inside exists.

Crazy how guards tear us up. Last time I looked (France or w/e) opponent's training didn't compare inside or out against our top scoring guard, and yet our dude never has games like that. Meh.

Not sure how fair it is to say we can't compete. Hall at SF and Stronks at guard is far-and-away our top LI team. We couldn't play that due to Hall's GS and thus had much worse LI guards and SF offensively and worse defence at guard.

Last edited by Stajan at 8/26/2014 12:12:33 PM

Because of Hall being useless we couldnt compete. And now even if his situation gets better next season, we are just too old. 3 skilll drops this week alone. If Hall was at strong GS.....well, one can only guess what would happen. Or if Hong Kong played normal and beat France.... But no reason to speculate now. we need to do the best we can in remaining game (games?) and try to advance even though we are the 5th team in our group when it comes to player strength just to get couple more matches with quality opposition.

Its over man, this tournament is (well, after yesterda was) our last chance to make some noise for a while.
We need to concentrate on training future stars the proper way.
Thats why I want to thank everyone that signed up and take care of our trainees by contacting their managers and making sure their receive training. Also want to thank managers who take care of their NT players as well as cooperate with guys when it comes to training ones.
I hope to keep that program going for a long time, even if not as NT manager. Also plan to train some Canadian guys myself, sell most of my players, buy a stud trainee and then hopefully get one more through draft.

Seems a lot of teams have plans for training Canadians. I hope to get involved in it too. No help in sight for our current NT and having to replace guys, though.

If a decent number of HOF+ players get drafted by human teams in the next few seasons, Canada could own the season 40's... but damn that is a long time away.

Yeah, I'm looking to dump my team once Stronks is done with NT. I'll probably demote and then try to get some trainees. I haven't cared about winning games in a while, it's all about training guys for NT for me. I don't know why, but that's always been the most interesting thing to me. Seeing if you can make a player that is one of the best in the world. Hopefully I can get a trainee to exceed what Stronks has done, but that could be difficult.

Teams will have to mail owners of high potential draftees and blow their socks off with offers to buy them. As it stands, nothing is ever available after the draft.

aaaaannnndd......GS is crap

Why the game engine decided to make us attempt 26 three-pointers in inside isolation to their 6 is annoying and mind-boggling to me. You'd think since our defence was a whopping 5 overall levels higher, our overall offence was higher, and both teams' offensive flow was equal that we would be the team less likely to be forcing things on offence, and certainly not to such an absurd degree. Our highest JR guys took either 14 or 20 threes but our highest IS guys took either 11 or 17 threes so there has to be some randomness in the amount of threes we took.

27 mins and -20 +/- from respectable GS players at SF probably weren't ideal. Then again, Sammons was -20 with 20 mins as a big and Stav and Collins as two of our clear-cut top players were hugely negative +/- too. Laurent fouling out after 14 mins hurt. Regardless, hard to complain about blank line-up and double correct GDP.

Last edited by Stajan at 9/2/2014 4:14:42 PM

Miracles happen when facing CT. Need to get over that. Oh well, we lost a spot in 2nd phase because of PD. I didnt want to play CT and then be a cannon-meat in 2nd round. If I knew the final score I would make different decision but nothing can be done about it now.

Hurts a bit, but it was still an exciting couple of weeks after winning Americas championship.

How do we look moving forward? Is there starting to be some drop off in skill at the high end or are the new trainees going to be up for the task?

Also a totally unrelated question, is it still possible to save trainees? Is this something the NT will be doing this season?

I think you did a solid job with a crap schedule. You kept the community engaged and at least made the season entertaining.