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From: Mr. Burns

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217393.58 in reply to 217393.57
Date: 6/9/2012 10:23:01 AM
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RiP is still probably training Abu-Kaleel.

I am. He had an OD pop a month and a half ago and a handling pop last week :)


Well I guess Beanerz was right that you trained him for "at least" 7 seasons. Though he was off by about, ummm, by about another 5 seasons. Rofl

Last edited by Mr. Burns at 6/9/2012 10:26:13 AM

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Date: 6/9/2012 11:28:44 AM
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Haha...

All five of those seasons he was a starter for the NT too, pretty crazy!

From: Gazou

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Date: 6/9/2012 3:29:22 PM
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How would you train this guy ?

John Sammons (22158616)
Center
Owner: Superfreakys
Weekly salary: $ 7 992
Role: rotation player

DMI: 109400
Age: 20
Height: 7'0" / 213 cm
Potential: all-time great
Game Shape: proficient

Jump Shot: inept Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: average Handling: inept
Driving: mediocre Passing: pitiful
Inside Shot: proficient Inside Def.: prominent
Rebounding: strong Shot Blocking: average
Stamina: atrocious Free Throw: inept
Experience: pitiful

14 in IS, ID and RB then go nuts in secondaries even if it takes 4-5 weeks to get 1 pop. then bring the main to 17?

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Date: 6/9/2012 4:17:37 PM
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I agree with beanerz that what we need is stud big men with some decent outside skills as well. At a certain point in time, however, the switch needs to be made from making a potential NT player more well-rounded to driving his key skills through the roof. My personal experience with training Denny Hall (also ATG) was that at 23 his pops were a bit slow on the inside and he ideally would have been switched over to inside training earlier. Hopefully his current owner will be able to get him to his potential, but only time will tell whether I trained him outside for too long.

That said, I think Sammons passing needs to be addressed. I don't think players with less than respectable passing belong on the NT except under exceptional circumstances (ie our current dearth of big man prospects...). I would train a mixture of passing and his core inside skills. Assuming a modest 10 or 11 pops a year, you could have him at respectable passing and 14/14/14 in two seasons of training, you'd probably pick up a handling pop in there as well. At 22 his salary would still be very reasonable. At that point in time you could reassess.

If your team is trying to win, it's awfully hard to play a stud big man trainee at PG week after week while he tries to pop at passing. By training it intermittently over a couple seasons you can choose the weeks/games that you can afford to lose or are guaranteed to win anyways. Or you could just do what I'm doing and tank intentionally and not worry about it! (bring on the draft baby!).

cheers

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Date: 6/9/2012 8:25:51 PM
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Let's see if Bussmann can end up with passing in proficient by season end then I can consider pass him out to the next trainer:



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Date: 6/9/2012 8:52:10 PM
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Gotta say, Sammons secondaries are light years ahead of where they were 2 seasons ago. They were all 1's and 2's back then. More forward training to get some of his secondaries up isnt' a terrible idea right now or some passing.

Gotta get the primaries up at some point but with his high cap and decent height, they can be trained for a long time.

Last edited by Beener not Beanerz at 6/9/2012 8:54:15 PM

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Date: 6/11/2012 3:00:34 PM
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note to self: change foul trouble set up to play em instead of sit em

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Date: 6/25/2012 7:47:58 AM
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note to self: change foul trouble set up to play em instead of sit em

how long have you been playing buzzerbeater?

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Date: 6/26/2012 11:47:44 AM
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so anyways, after having recovered from this crazy flu, I am going to post a bit of an update for the NT!

we are doing comfortably in the standings going 4-1 so far, with 2 home games coming up and then 1 last game against Romania
I expect the team to finish no worse than 6-2, which should easily put us into the round of 32

From the looks of things, only 2 or 3 teams from the Americas will make it to the round of 32 (depending on how the standings play out)... which makes it very likely that we can take HCA for the Americas next season if luck continues to favour us =)

From: Mod-beanerz

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Date: 7/3/2012 11:07:10 AM
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Very fair comments and very well said.

The NT has lost the interest of the majority of the Canadian community and it shows. The lost interest is a result of poor communication on the BB site in my opinion. It is pretty evident that the current manager will not be back based on the downward spiral his manger rating is doing.

It has been very well documented that the NT does not even have the best players on it, meaning that the scouting has been missed or forgotten. Sad indeed.


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