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109310.4 in reply to 109310.2
Date: 9/8/2009 2:45:30 PM
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I claims the U21 team and I would like to say that I do everything best only put the best basketball players to U-21 team:) :)


You say that you will choose the best U21 players... How will you do that?


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109310.5 in reply to 109310.4
Date: 9/8/2009 2:51:28 PM
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would anyone consider me as a U21 national team coach? Or would I be out off the running since I do play in the english competion myself?

I remember a few seasons ago, the coaches off the english teams rejecting sharing their NT players info so that all coaches could get involved with the NT.

I have already done some extensive scouting for the season 9 Draft and I have to say, we have gotten a pile off rubish. However rubish is trainable too and from following the U21 team the last few seasons we do have some rough diamonds available to us.

Drop me a line when you think I should run for this post and I will put myself up for candidate...

Thanks alot and everyone in England wish you all a very good season!!!

In case noone wants a coach from an english team as the U21 coach, I would say we should ask digging for change again. He is very well aware what the U21 team is alike and I am sure he will do a great job again, like the last campaign...

No offense to our portugese friends, however I would prefer a fluent speaking english U21 and NT coach...

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109310.6 in reply to 109310.5
Date: 9/8/2009 3:01:23 PM
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Well, as you should know, English the most spoken language in the world. In POrtugal, english is our second language and everyone learns it at school. I had English for 7 years and I was a good student. Don´t you thinks it is enough to comunicate with you? And as I saw from the post before yours, there's people in England that talk worse than us.

If we had problems with language, we wouldn't have proposed to turn this into a more active comunity using the forum.

So since the language isn´t a problem, we would like you to formulate questions about our candidature, not about our language. We are ready to answer your questions so that you can have a better idea about what we want to do

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109310.7 in reply to 109310.5
Date: 9/8/2009 3:03:03 PM
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While you'd make a very good coach, I'm not in favour of an English-league coach taking over as U21 boss. As the ex-boss, I can safely say that the power to call up any decent prospect does give you an advantage in club basketball. Now, the game has changed, and having your own country players in your club squad gives even greater financial reward. I'm not saying for one moment that any English coach would abuse this position but I don't think it's 'fair' that they have the opportunity.

Our portugese friends are still relatively inexperienced coaches, and their English isn't quite as good as they seem to think, but it is passable and I wouldn't campaign against them - or for them.

Again, I'd favour a native English, or US english-speaker from either Canada or the NBBA as the ideal candidate to be U21 coach.

However, if you really, really want to be NT coach Astragoth, I'm sure you'd do the job well and while I wouldn't vote for you for the reason I've already stated, I wouldn't campaign against you.

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109310.9 in reply to 109310.8
Date: 9/8/2009 3:22:09 PM
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I think you mean elaborate there mate, not collaborate.

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109310.10 in reply to 109310.7
Date: 9/8/2009 3:25:09 PM
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While you'd make a very good coach, I'm not in favour of an English-league coach taking over as U21 boss. As the ex-boss, I can safely say that the power to call up any decent prospect does give you an advantage in club basketball. Now, the game has changed, and having your own country players in your club squad gives even greater financial reward. I'm not saying for one moment that any English coach would abuse this position but I don't think it's 'fair' that they have the opportunity.


I disagree here.

I'm on my 4th term as USA NT coach, and I've received very little flack in this regard.

I've always maintained that I could post my whole roster and it doesn't make much difference, and I'm going to play the same way regardless of what I know about someone's players.

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109310.11 in reply to 109310.9
Date: 9/8/2009 3:25:13 PM
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lol yeah... probably. elaborate :) i will change my message :) oeps and now i deleted it. let me repost it...

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109310.12 in reply to 109310.6
Date: 9/8/2009 3:28:54 PM
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like elmacca said, you arent very experienced with this game, 3 seasons isnt alot off experience at all. secondly I would favour, as I have stated before a player from the states or canada or so.

I have one question, well 2. Why did you pick England? Did you apply for any other countries?

If we had problems with language, we wouldn't have proposed to turn this into a more active comunity using the forum.

I am not sure what you mean by this. I am not trying to be funny, just trying to understand your experience off the game, and england as a nation within BB. Could you please elaborate a little bit more what you meant with this comment?

ps... as far as i am aware chinees and than hindoe are the most spoken languages in the world :P but this is debatable off course :)

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109310.13 in reply to 109310.8
Date: 9/8/2009 3:31:31 PM
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We only apllied for England. We spent a month preparing this aplly. It is a serious apply, we aren't like those who only aplly for fun, we are in this to be as close to victory as possible.

We have chosen England because all of us speak and understand well the language and because we saw one thing that caught our atention. The only one to participate in the conferences was the Senior NT coach. We think that, for a country to be one of the bests, it has to have one of the most active comunities. So we centered part of our apply on the comunity. Our goal is to bring more people to the forums, because there will be more interaction. I think that now you understand what I was sayng in that sentence.

PS: As for experience, I spent the last 2 years following the NT competitions, and I was a very active user in the portuguese comunity so I can say that I know a lot about NT's

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109310.14 in reply to 109310.12
Date: 9/8/2009 3:33:32 PM
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ps... as far as i am aware chinees and than hindoe are the most spoken languages in the world :P but this is debatable off course :)


You know what I meant...

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