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We should be happy to get the win, but that was a rough game. Basically our poor depth inside was exposed in that game. Coming in we were without two of our key bigs, Kouzuki (injury) and Hayakawa (Game Shape). Then Furusawa fouled out in just 17 minutes. That left us with Sonoda, Yasujiro, and Matsumoto. I love the young guys but they just aren't ready yet.

The injury to Kouzuki is very sad but on the bright side the young guys are getting better and better every season. USA seems to always manage to get a few players to a $70,000 salary by age 21 each season and at least $100,000 by 22 so surely our young guys will be ready to be major stars by next season. Very tough choice what to do with Kouzuki. If I sell him I doubt he will play again, if I keep him I am not sure what I am paying his salary for. THen again maybe next season he can just be a very good backup on my team and I can keep him around to honor his NT glory.

What are you talking about BLING...You haven't won a trophey without renting. You say IS/ID are overrated but you had a 17 IS beast on your finals team. You even had a 20 REB before it dropped to 18 before the final match. If you think high salary beast are garbabge why do you rent them for the cup and finals? I seriously doubt you can win the cup or the league with the team you have right now which means you will rent again. At least Sharman wasn't so brash. At least he admitted to winning by renting. 20 rebounding cost more than 20 IS and you had one of them on your playoff team. You talk about this great system you have but when the games get tough you rent. You even rented a triple 19(The Polish Frisbee) with crap secondaires, and to top it off..you started him. Win the cup or the league with less than a million $ roster and then we will believe in this systen of yours.
I know you will come back with the Hate the game not the player...but action speaks louder than words, and your previous post to Kyoto was BS. You rent mega rebounders and IS/ID and passers to win you trophies and then talk about how salary doesn't win BLING...WHAT???

Last edited by Yellow cake at 9/5/2012 2:20:18 AM

Wolph, I get what you're saying, and I think everyone actually gets it. But I think you're looking at extreme ends of the scale.
The reality is that we cannot see the skills of other NTs/U21 teams. In lieu of being able to see skills on other teams, all we can do is speculate... and like it or not, salary remains part of that.

If you guys all realized how overrated ID/IS are, how overrated extreme PA is, how overrated JS is...and how much all 4 of those stats are costing you week to week...you might have some bling in your case.

Come on man... your own "bling" has come with a whole lotta circumstance.
And on your points of what skills are worthy, and which aren't - I refuse to believe that there is only one path to success. What I've seen in my limited time here definitely does not bear that out.

Hey...I stand corrected....It says our salaries were identical for the finals. Both of us were around 710K. Lot of salary drops for you old guys and mine too. But..I can admit when I am wrong.. Looking at the two games...It was rebounding and that Krejci fellow....Not bad..

I am about to stir the salary pot again.

What is this BUM doing on the NT instead of my star?


Mototsugu Sendai (19825224)
Point Guard
Owner: Mythical Man-Month
Weekly salary: $ 19 655
Role: rotation player
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DMI: 274800
Age: 23
Height: 6'6" / 198 cm
Potential: MVP
Game Shape: proficient


Takayoshi Kawagichi (21305663)
Point Guard
Weekly salary: $ 50 056
Role: regular starter
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DMI: 781200
Age: 22
Height: 6'3" / 190 cm
Potential: superstar
Game Shape: proficient

$20k salary against $50k salary. Oh, you guys don't like salary? How about DMI, lucky they are both proficient 780k (which would make him 6th best on the team this week a certain backup with Rikkio Eguchi injured) vs 274k. Ok don't like DMI. Passing? TK was 5th in the whole JBBL last season. Defence? TK has great defence for his age but I suspect they are similar. Handling & driving no chance. JR I will confess he probably has but that is one of the reasons TK ONLY has a $50k salary. The 1 think Sendai may have is good inside skills, slumming it in d2/3 against bots last season let him do a lot of inside training, but if they were so great wouldn't they show up in the DMI?

PS: No offence Man-Month I like you as a manager & as a trainer of Nippon players but this seems very far off the mark.

I'll give you two points to help you understand.

First, this is an example of where Salary and DMI don't tell you everything. If you look at TSP Sendai is actually a little ahead of Kawagichi.

Second, Sendai is really a SF where your guy is a guard. Our depth is much stronger at guard which makes it tougher for your guy to crack the depth chart. Sendai will be top 3 SF by next season and should be able to challenge Tsunami long-term.