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It looks like NT topics on Japan forum are more interesting than on Poland forum ;-)

Poland had 19 players in top-600 salaries in S16. And 33 in top-1000 (1000th the best salary was then ~150k):

  3. 448 026	Wisniewski
 16. 370 976	Eygi
139. 260 418	Kolpaczynski (out of NT)
175. 248 968	Sojka (out of NT)
187. 245 278	Rakus
238. 227 929	Stupa (out of NT)
240. 227 557	Luderitz
247. 226 829	Strojnowski (out of NT)
257. 225 304	Perko
279. 221 970	Ciejka (out of NT)
288. 220 334	Bujok (out of NT - first guard)
292. 219 671	Gurak
294. 219 103	Anisiewicz
351. 209 683	Lange (out of NT)
392. 203 115	Jakóbiak (out of NT)
407. 199 940	Heiss (out of NT)
478. 189 612	Buchcik (out of NT)
520. 184 513	Opoka (out of NT)
568. 180 374	Podniesinski - first guard in NT

It looks like NT topics on Japan forum are more interesting than on Poland forum ;-)

Definitely :) There's no contest :)

You know the NT job is mostly about community building here.

You built great communication in this topic.

and scout by WR alone

It's trolling. You have nothing to prove it so please stop to confuse others. I have very good system to scouting opponents, probably one of the best in BB. Very often I know more about other NTs than their own NT Managers ;-)

Its about having a good team

It's not only having good team. When I was NT coach of Poland strenght of our players placed us in 2nd eight on world (between 9 and 16 - I think closer to 10 than 16, however far from medal positions).
Currently strenght of Japan players for sure isn't in first six in Asia.
However always is possible to make better result than strenght of players.

We can make deal. Please became NT coach in next season. And if you make worse result then me, then you'll never post on BB forum. Fair?

Malice had good success with Wales, but maybe he likes/feels committed to that post, which is understandable.

Haven't coached the Welsh team for a few seasons now... I simply lack the time to be able to commit to an NT/U21 job the way I would like to.

Way too much here to respond to it all but 1 thing I am certain Wolph is not trying to sabotage the team, he wants what is best for it. Hopefully there will be more agreement from now on.

If I ever became the NT coach I would have the following starting lineup:

PG Kawagichi/Shin
SG Kawaida/Umari
SF Knone/Kinjo
PF Sonada/Ichiro
C Kawagichi/Ichiro

I would be making $200k a week merchandise & we wouldn't win a thing. Maybe it wouldn't be the best idea.

Last edited by Lord Toranaga at 12/12/2012 7:43:55 AM

Quick report.
So we lost Repechages with 1-2 win-lose record.
Final results show that Canada was main rival to win group and therefore match vs Canada was key. And therefore CT in this match was only proper decision, which could give us chance to play in WC.
We needed result better by 23 points vs Canada (scored by Japan and/or not scored by Canada in this match) to gain promotion to WC. So little and so much.
Our win vs Nigeria was scarcely 6th win in history of Japan NT in intercontinental phase. Our last win in championship competition vs opponent from other continent was long time ago, in season 10 (28th September 2009) - (7279).
Actually we are on 36th place in NT ranking:
http://www.buzzerbeater.com/World/rankings.aspx.
It's the best position since historical positions are saved in BB, i.e. since season 11 (in that season we were once on 35th place). Previous positions in ranking are listed as blue number in NT schedule.
Now we are playing in Consolation Tournament and nothing good should be expected.

Last edited by B.B.King at 12/19/2012 6:07:45 AM