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Thank you for the interesting question? over the past couple of seasons, one thing that affected the outcome of our team were injuries, which unfortunatley happened to our best players. I now have a great understanding of this game, and im pretty positive in what im doing for my team, within a week I'm making extremley big moves that will take my team to the top,and also i beleieve we will be a power house. Also I believe my dedication to this game will take Team USA to the top

Last edited by Shot City at 6/5/2009 6:14:00 PM

You only answered one of my questions. To be a good national team manager you need more than just dedication. Also I looked at your roster and you said you have good players, but the biggest salary was around 6k. That doesn't seem that good for going into your 3rd and a half season. By my first full season I had guys that I trained who were almost 10k salary. You also have no evidence that you should be a power house and as someone else asked, what are the big changes you are going to make?
Thank you
TJ

Question for the candidates...

I've noticed that the stamina values for some NT/U-21 players varying quite a bit. Is it more important to train these players up in basketball skills or maintain high levels of stamina?

How important is stamina to winning at the elite/NT level?


Steve
Bruins

I don't have any experience with this, but I would say as long as they are trainable, train them. After they reach their skill cap they should train their stamina. That is my personal approach, but I don't have NT experience.

I didnt check in there much at all this season, and won't post at all if i lose. If i do lose Juice deserves the chance to defend his ideas.

I understand you wouldn't want to step on Juice's toes but that statement seems to me like you just want the title of Coach. While it would be beneficial to allow him to run the team thats what the forums are for disagreements on P.O.V and with out disagreement to stimulate discussion no change or improvement will ever occur.

Again, Juice was making his plans with a longer term view in plan, so i can truly say "simons shoulda played" or "why did you play harrell, his form sucked that day?" It is possible it was against an opponent who we'd beat anyway, and maybe he wanted to throw a bone to the person who trained him sub-optimally for club but optimally for the NT>

Those kinds of things over a season I just have to give juice a pass on. If he screws up epically where there is no defensible reason, then i will post, but I won't be Juice's biggest antagonist if i lose, that is just bitter. I have different ideas on alot of strategy compared to juice, but thats for you to figure out.

you don't get it do you?

of course you want these things. but you don't get them! the forums were full of crickets chirping, the election last term was laughably low turnout. You say you want diversity of opinions but your demeanor (and actions to a lesser degree) effectively ensures that it wont happen. So saying you want it and creating the conditions to ensure it are two entirely different things. Everyone wants it, youve had 3 terms, with your last election having the worst turnout, and with the forums having a very small # of posts.

Now in your defense, the fact that you get logged out here if you are inactive for more than 5 minutes is a tough factor (Ever write a long post, hit submit and get logged out? I have... it sucks.)

But still, there is no community here. WE both play hattrick, you hear the same comlpaints there on the 400 post thread about buzzerbeater. What have you done about it? What are you going to do about it? (the lack of community that is, not the logout problem, thats on BB-Charles and friends)

Thats why I wont stick around if i lose. I won't be the bitter heckler, but you are not the kind of person that

3a) been a member/lurker long time. Posted a few times, never got a reply, the site blew up and re invented itself. I didnt check in there much at all this season, and won't post at all if i lose. If i do lose Juice deserves the chance to defend his ideas. The one thing no one can accuse Juice of is incompetence, which is why its an uphill battle. I know I personally and a few others feel that there were mistakes, but hes not a f-up at the level of say... rpeters in hattrick (for those who play that game). Whoever wins deserves the chance to put their philosophy in without people sniping at them over every decision they would make differently.

I completely disagree.

We want ideas and thoughts to come in from all corners, positive or negative.

Criticism is essential to improvement. If one isn't criticized, even harshly if need be, they become complacent and never improve. We need improvement - 2 games improvement, to be exact.

Your statement regarding not posting if I win gives the impression that you're not all that interested in the USA NT unless you win the election. I'm not sure that's what you're trying to achieve.

Finally, whoever gets elected SHOULD be under a microscope - that person represents the 2625 strong USA community on the world stage.

3a) been a member/lurker long time. Posted a few times, never got a reply, the site blew up and re invented itself. I didnt check in there much at all this season, and won't post at all if i lose. If i do lose Juice deserves the chance to defend his ideas. The one thing no one can accuse Juice of is incompetence, which is why its an uphill battle. I know I personally and a few others feel that there were mistakes, but hes not a f-up at the level of say... rpeters in hattrick (for those who play that game). Whoever wins deserves the chance to put their philosophy in without people sniping at them over every decision they would make differently.

I completely disagree.

We want ideas and thoughts to come in from all corners, positive or negative.

Criticism is essential to improvement. If one isn't criticized, even harshly if need be, they become complacent and never improve. We need improvement - 2 games improvement, to be exact.

Your statement regarding not posting if I win gives the impression that you're not all that interested in the USA NT unless you win the election. I'm not sure that's what you're trying to achieve.

Finally, whoever gets elected SHOULD be under a microscope - that person represents the 2625 strong USA community on the world stage.

Last edited by TheUnrepentantGunner at 6/6/2009 7:41:34 AM

as far as juice's errors, generally speaking too much offensive focus one way or another. for example our last 5 games with an outside focus we are 44-136 on threes. this is less than 33% (the generally acecpted mark for "not sucking" from the outside)

Just a clarification: this is less than 33%, but at the same time the mark for not sucking in BB is lower than in real basketball, because in BB the 2 PT percentage is much lower than 50%. In the particular case, the 3FG is 32 % which in BB is a very very good percentage. It means your teams would have to shoot more than 48% from 2 points for it to be worth avoiding the outside game. Few teams do that at the top level.

yes and no.

while your point is a given that fg percentages across the board are too low in bb, and i've already made the point that you are more likely to get fouled than you should on shooting 3's, looking at offensive rebound percentage on aggregate you dont get as many rebounds on wayward 3's as you would in the nba. this is purely anecdotal on my part and my advantage of beng a geek.

so in the nba: the average 3 hits 35-36% of the time, the average 2 hits 51% of the time, so same situation, on the face the 3 ball looks better.

however a few things. in the real nba this isnt always true. shooting 2 pointers (specifically layups and dunks) yield more free throw attempts, which are almost always going to be better than 50%. buzzerbeater this is sill true, but the discrepancy isnt so high, and while its a non-issue on the NT level or my club specifically (73% free throws TYVM), some teams would really rather not send some of their players to the line.

furthermore, in the nba look at rebound frequency from layups, short range shots, mid range jumpers and 3s. look at buzzerbeater. this something i only charted over 2 games, but my impression was if it was a long rebound and yoru defending guard had any kind of rebounding ability you werent getting the board. i think that might all change this season anyway with the team defense being radically altered, especially zone defense.

either way, shooting 3's at 32% is still not efficient. i feel this effect more than most. i have a very talented/defensive center, but am otherwise completely loaded on outside players, and still more often than not avoid the outside strategies. This is not something I wanted to do, but rather feel forced into doing it.