Sonoda is not bad. He is 3rd or something like that (I don't see database in this moment) but only if we consider inside skills. In my ranking I include all skills, primaries and secondaries.
It's funny, Sonoda has almost the same skills as one of my player. They are very similar, 3 of 4 inside skills of my player are the same as skills of Your player, one inside skill of my player is one level worse.
My player was born in my club with salary=3500 (very weak value). He is probably capped from few weeks. He plays in our (polish) national team. He is the best scorer and the best rebounder in our team in current World Championships.
And I almost forget. He is 21 years old and of course he plays in U21 national team...
It was probably my fault I selected Asano, not Sonoda. However we would lose anyway, only points difference would be smaller. I wanted to check Asano because for sure we need better players than Sonoda in future to make Japan NT stronger. With player as Sonoda Japan NT will be competitve only against U21 teams.
And one more thing. Two days ago, before Your posted on forum, I didn't even know whose player was Sonoda and whose player was Asano. In fact, I didn't even remember their names. In my database I see only skills (numbers) and I have problem to remember names and I don't even try it. Iit isn't necessary, and I don't like to do things which are unnecessary.
We would have been better with Yoks default lineup. 3-0 under Yoks, 0-2 under you.
I explained it in past. Referees were bribed, we were better in both these games.
And... when I received "buttons" we had no promotion to 2nd round. After few days I we were sure. And I did it even without playing competitive match. So maybe I am not so bad.
It is things like this that have you on 29% support.
This value is ~3 times better than my result in elections.