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229572.65 in reply to 229572.1
Date: 2/17/2013 12:47:31 PM
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Just wanted to say a quick congrats to everyone, we have 12 of the current NT players home in England :) It's great to see that it is really a community effort. Several other notables are also on English squads.

Also, quick announcement, Michael Andrews owner appears to have gone bot and he'll be hitting the TL in a couple of weeks, if anyone has some funds saved up and is interested in picking him up just get in touch with me so we can go over some of what I'll be looking for in training before you pick him up :)

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229572.66 in reply to 229572.65
Date: 2/17/2013 1:12:27 PM
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I could be interested but I must know more: can he be trained? in what skills? will he be locked in a specific training that could be a problem in 6 weeks? ...

By PM if you want ;)

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229572.67 in reply to 229572.66
Date: 2/17/2013 1:39:40 PM
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Sent you some stuff :)

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229572.68 in reply to 229572.64
Date: 2/18/2013 5:18:10 PM
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2nd game didn't quite live up to the hype of the first one. Starters Sharpling and Hongs showed they can play the guard spots in an inside offense. But our backups just straight forgot to show up, with Gascoigne and Marshall somehow racking up -21 PDs in only 7 minutes of action!

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229572.69 in reply to 229572.68
Date: 2/18/2013 7:41:01 PM
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lol.

The hero's of game 1 really got slaughtered on the court today. still agin amusing and entertaining results. Sharpling isn't a surprize. But you really gotta work on that TO rate...

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229572.70 in reply to 229572.68
Date: 2/19/2013 1:47:06 AM
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wow, i just checked this out. They had 3 visits to the court at only a couple minutes each but did give up -21pd :<
They were subbed in with other reserves i think, so perhaps it is a case of englands weaker line up facing a stronger belgium line up for small parts of the game with belgium taking full advantage?
the other guys didnt show such a bad pd because they played with a stronger line up/it averaged out over more minutes. Perhaps. But what do you reckon?

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229572.72 in reply to 229572.71
Date: 2/19/2013 1:35:24 PM
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Nothing wrong with his defence on paper, besides Gazza said it was all the inside guys fault ;o)
whats a player to do, eh?

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229572.73 in reply to 229572.68
Date: 2/19/2013 2:43:18 PM
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while the level of drop off is extreme, it's not exactly surprising that Hongs and Sharpling can kill a 2-3 zone and the young guys can't. If you know this game, a ten second glance at the roster would tell you that.

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229572.74 in reply to 229572.69
Date: 2/19/2013 2:54:23 PM
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4-17 shooting from the bench is more of a worry.

Even if you count Austin's 4 turnovers as missed shots claimed by the D, he still shot .500 (7-14 instead of 7-10)

The turnovers aren't great. I do acknowledge Austin's limitations at NT level. At club level he has the odd game like that but usually makes enough blocks to compensate, but he has far fewer blocks at NT level and we can't really count shots altered properly.

He is a LI weapon though, for all his weaknesses.

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229572.75 in reply to 229572.73
Date: 2/19/2013 7:52:35 PM
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Hmm, I'm not sure if you're implying Gascoigne/Palit aren't quite ready yet, but you'd be mistaken if you think that, they are easily among our top flight of guards. Marshall might not be quite ready for certain tactics, but as a SF that's understandable.

Sharpling I expected, but Hongs was a bit more of a surprise to me personally, at least with all his passing, however his GS is phenomenal so thank you :)

Really for the backups I'm going to take it as too small of a sample size to really get anything useful, the young guys started last week and did just fine. Holm fouling 4 times in 6 minutes was also impressive.

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