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Which is completely fine with me. We won't have to worry about getting paired with them in semis. And we have max enth. Now we have to beat Venezuela.

One of our best guys coming up.

Guo Zhongkai (36039141) is for sale.

$2 mil but 70 TSP already and still age 19.

9/7/9/7/7/8 3/6/7/7 4/3

Last game
Less effort, 1 wrong GDP, and playing Chile on their home court signaled an uphill battle from the start. Still a good effort from the team, and we can't hang our heads after a 95-84 (34008) loss. I thought better to save enth for next round rather than try to take the first group stage.

weird stat: SGs were both predicted to hit 97 PP100, but Canada shot 4-16 and Chile 7-25 at the position.

game MVP: PF Renaud with 20 rebounds and holding the other PF to 4 pts.

game LVP: C Savigny took down just 5 boards, and had a team worst in turnovers (4) and +/- (-23).

Upcoming
Group stage 2 begins Monday vs. the Dominican Republic. A huge mismatch on paper as their top salary player is just $8.7k. Thank you to managers keeping up the great training (8 pops this week) and minute management (6 proficient GS).

Special shoutout to manager Guyana Badman (team Mayne) (25100) who has scraped our top SG Ermis Maragkos (35217952) off the injury list and returned him to GS9. Great outside defense training as well to compliment his gaudy shooting skills! We'll look to Maragkos to improve our stubborn outside shooting numbers in neutral and outside offenses.

Our group is:
Canada (32), 5-1
Dominican Republic (58), 4-2
Venezuela (19), 5-1
Peru (54), 4-2
United States (3), 6-0
Brasil (37), 4-2

Realistically we have to aim for 4-1, so circle games against Venezuela and Brasil as must wins. Venezuela lost to Argentina by 13 on equal effort, LI vs LI. We handled Brasil by 12 on equal effort, PTB vs motion.

We would face the top team coming out of Pool D which would likely be Argentina or Chile who we just lost to.

In other words, we need lots of things to go our way in order to make some big noise end of this season!

Last edited by U21 CAN Cletus at 10/3/2015 12:06:09 PM

GZK went unsold and I've decided to keep him for now. I figured I don't need that much money for arena expansion (which is my #1 priority as a new team) and I'll try to sell my other SF at a lower price instead. GZK is a core player I can build around for the future.

8 pops this week. +1 overall team GS. Big game vs. Venezuela Monday. Will write more over the weekend. Going over potential callups. Warthani/Lucky/Hughes/Curley possible.

Half way thru the second quarter. We're up 32-16. While I don't expect this stellar play to continue, it's a wonderful start to this game. Must win this game if any hope to advance to playoffs.

Win! Writeup to come. Chile beat Argentina and if we can grab the two seed we may be able to seek out revenge.

U21 second round is going swell down in Chile. Second place in the group now very attainable after 76-62 (34771) win vs Venezuela.

The first quarter saw us take a nice 18-12 lead. Ngidi with 6 points and Rafferty with a potentially troublesome 3 fouls.

A commanding 46-28 advantage at halftime. Ngidi and Rafferty with 17 points apiece inside.

Garbage time by the end up the third, up 67-41. Rafferty with 30 points, 10 rebounds, and still just the 3 fouls. Almada 9 assists.

Second string outscored 21-9 in the last quarter, roster newbie Josh Curley 4 points, an assist, and a block.

Up next is Peru followed by USA and Brasil. Thanks managers/trainers and Go Canada!

ps Go Jays!

The good: 10 pops this week
The bad: GS is not the best
The ugly: Your face! Just kidding!

Peru on Monday.

Good luck! Not the best GS update for NT either. But hopefully that is a sign that 15x proficient is coming next week ;)

I would definitely take that 2 and 3 weeks from now!