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Very interesting.

First with Kawagichi I have done 48+ pressure with a level 6 trainer for the last 5 weeks but he just doesn't want to pop. Still I am certain he will pop this week and assuming no injuries he will be sensational OD before the first game next season and just up and up from there. I wont be doing any JR as it is such a potential sink and he will get a couple of pops there over the next few seasons from secondary effects. I hope I can get him to around phenomenal OD and PA if I am careful with good JS, HA, DR and some nice secondaries even with his superstar potential as long as I don't train his JR and RE. Obviously a long term plan there but I want him to be a JBBL starter and I think that is what is needed.

We are loaded at C, the lack of a PF is bad but surely a $40k C is better than a $10k PF at PF. If we do play against teams running SGs at PF it may be different but for the typical LI team the primaries would be key and we can't afford to be losing rebound battles by big margins.



C Matsumoto is a slam dunk for C.
PF Surely we need our 2nd bast player Wakatsuki to start, he has played some PF for his club team only getting .5 less ratings than usual so he should be the PF.
SF Why would you play Kentaro at PF leaving Wakatsuki on the bench when you say he is the best SF and your option is to play Amori a PG? (Although I see he has had almost all his age 19 training at C so he may have great secondaries and that would make his salary deceptivly low - he could be a gem for us maybe backup PG or backup SF could be a very handy player.)
SG as you say is a complete mess with no-one. I think one of the PGs who has some JR should slide over here.
PG Keisuke Ikouga is apparently a stud who can defend, pass and score. Fantastic!

I disagree that PG is just about 2 stats, obviously OD and PA are the highlights but HA, DR and JS are all important probably in that order. After that either IS or JR in the current engine. DR is critical as running LI your PGs will take a high % of their shots as driving layups and I think a low JR stops them taking bad 3s. But I could be wrong and I'm not the coach. OD and PA are no doubt key. Hopefully by the time we are in playoffs at the end of the season Kawagichi will be on around double wondrous. That is only 4 pops from where I expect him to start, not a hard ask really.

Guys like you and Taiyo have proven yourselves in the JBBL. Malice is a basketball encyclopedia and now has NT experience. There are a ton of other top managers here like Mizik, Izaman, Yellow cake or even the legendary Superfly Guy that know a lot more than me and would be top candidates. Really I would vote for almost any JBBL manager except mikelm15. There is also Akiko_0219 of Shikoku Otaku who has always run his team well in 2/1. ﾃｨﾓﾃｨ of aisteru.4ever, Baikinman of Baikinman, there are a lot of solid managers in Nippon.

I am a bit wary of an overseas manager after last time but I guess if a really good one came up it would be possible.

Dude... you LEARN more by being it. You have your own ideas, and you could do well.
The most important thing about a National Team job is not experience, it's passion and dedication. I don't think any of the guys you named have that over you.

I'd vote for you.

I'd vote for you. Wales was a big job because you had to do it all. Here you would have a ton of support. Wolph, Tayo etc know how to run things. I would be happy to assist in some way scouting or press releases or whatever. It would be easier than Wales.

No chance. As stated before, I'm stepping down from the Welsh job because of time constraints in my job. Japan'd be a significantly bigger job than Wales.
I am going to be busier this year than I've been for the last... well, perhaps ever.

I think we agree on almost everything.

Wakatsuki: obviously us having a debate about him where you can see his skills and I can't you will be right and I will be wrong. All I can go on are his salary, ratings, positions trained and stats. With him the salary is good, ratings 11-12 are ok. He has low fouls, low assists but still higher assists than turnovers. He hits a good FG%, doesn't block many shots and is a little low in rebounds. Obviously I have little idea about the quality of play in Polish division IV but I am assumung it is like 2/1 here minus the top team or two. From that I have to guess stats and if his secondaries are all low then I am wrong. I couldn't tell what they trained when he played PF (most of last season) so the assumption is 1 on 1 for forwards. But that could be incorrect.

I have constantly had this same debate that a lot of secondaries are worth more than a few primaries. My players are not like that right now (being all local but 1 I have to take the best I can) but when I am ready to make a run I will be finding players like that as my 2 imports. I probably have 1 "salary"monster on my team right now in Tsumemasa Kurogane but he is only $30k and was the first goodish local big man I found. He will certainly be upgraded sometime.

Kawagichi: I hope you are wrong. I can't find the player but a while ago in 2/1 there was a $100,000 + PG who dominated the league, I think he was a USA player but I can't find him. He was a defensive terror and racked up assists like crazy. I was amazed to see when he was sold he had very low JR. I had always assumed it was critical for a PG. Except for Rondo I can't think of an elite PG who can't hit a 3. But it made me think, here things are different. JR is such a salary and potential drain, maybe I could have guards without too much of it who instead drive to the basket.

I can't link to guys on the TL but as an example (wasn't the guy I was thinking of) there is a USA player in Spanish D2 right now with awful JR playing PG with wondrous PA and OD and he mostly takes 1 or 0 3 point shots a game. I assume Spanish D2 is probably much tougher than the average JBBL team.

Anyway that is my theory.

I must have not spoken clearly about the OD pop and forgot 1 week was 1 on 1 for forwards, it was not 0 pops in 6 weeks, next week will be the 6th week, it was only 1 in 4 weeks of pressure, so this week for sure he must be on X.99.

Training him at SF isn't going to happen. He can get the occasional week, but I have the Shinkansen coming Shin Shidehara (24273129) and I can't afford to train both as inside players, I would get killed in league. Hard enough to train both each week at PG which is why I so often have to do 1 on 1. I can't help Kawagichi's RE but the Shinkansen has atrocious so he will have lots of salary and potential free to hopefully make it to a NT standard guard, unless the standard is much higher then.

Thanks as always for your input.

I didn't use anyone with OD as low as Kawagichi last year

I can see a certain 21 year old guard on the TL right now who has Outside Def.: proficient and he played! Kawagichi will be waaaay better then that at the START of next U21 season let alone the end. In fact looking at him Kawagichi is better or equal in everything except JR and ID (which is nice on him).