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Hey Micky, I don't really understand any of this, could you give me a quick run down on how the whole U21 system works :)
Thanks a lot!

At this stage there are 32 teams in a knockout stage to decide who wins the tournament for all those who missed the world cup. Teams are ranked by how they finished during the round stage.

Whoever finishes highest in this from Asia will host next seasons Asian championship. I do not see any other teams from Asia getting past round 2 other then maybe Iran maybe. If 2 teams get knocked out same round the team ranked higher host next season. So we need to make it a round further then them all to host next season.

http://www.buzzerbeater.com/world/standings.aspx?teamid=1...

There is the draw. Winners play each other along till we have only 2 teams left. So we can not play Poland until the final as an example. So most of Asia are in our side of the draw.

If there is something else you need to know just ask.

I don't think we can afford to playoff normal against Bosnia. They had some excellent match ratings last start and if we don't take them seriously they will hurt us.

A 3-2 Zone might come in handy here considering that their guards are the highest waged players...

well to start their is no playoff efforts till final 4 of knockout stage.......

Tough luck on the loss last night to Bosnia.

I hope that you are still going to stand again for Manager

I want to but feel a bit down atm. Gameshape killed it. Time to look towards next seasons team.

IF you have a 20 year old hit me up with their skills.

HCA is pretty tough to overcome - always going to be up against it in the consolation tourney when you start 0-2.

Thanks for everyone who had a player or put some time into supporting the team.
New bunch of guys added to the squad and as a group it looks strong. I will be putting my hand up again and hoping we can make into the final of the Asian Championship next season.

Sent messages to the managers of the best bigs I have found and will look over other guys as I get some more time.

Hey you did really well. Glad that you are putting up your hand again for the gig.

Yeah Micky I'm pretty impressed with your development as a manager. I'd love to see have another crack!

That loss to Singapore put us in a bit of a jam; we couldn't do PD manipulation as the mentality was just to avoid facing the top seeds in the first round. Out of the five undefeated teams, Romania is the only team we would've beaten in the first round, short of using crunch time. Finishing 29th in the seeding rounds would've been ideal, but winning our last game by exactly the margin needed to finish there would've been almost impossible. Unfortunately for us, we instead finished 27th and drew Bosnia...

In hindsight, CT'ing them may have actually been a good idea, since New Zealand also CT'ed and won. That's a 2nd round match-up we could've easily won... we then lose in the quarters of course, but that may just have been enough.

The margin of defeat also makes you wonder if we could've at least made it a contest with a 3-2 zone, jamming their high salary guards...

With that said, had Singapore not CT'ed us, allowing us to beat them, and all other results remained the same, we would've finished 16th-17th... and that would've put us on a collision course with Poland. In hindsight, our team just wasn't as good as we thought they were... I mean sure, our GS update this week wasn't the best, but it wasn't exactly horrible either, we still had our fair sure of players in strong or even proficient gameshape.

Iran is pretty much assured HCA for the next Asian tournament; New Zealand will get hung, drawn and quartered by Bosnia, and even if Iran don't get over Estonia, they have the higher seed, and with the other four Asian teams going down in the first round... Iran will be dangerous next season.

Speaking of which, next seasons preliminary squad has just been selected, and we are spoiled for choice in the PG and SG positions. We also have a few good SF candidates, but our team may lack strength at the PF and C positions. We do have some good players, but we don't have a Michael Wayne who can really dominate, and our depth in the bigman positions also leaves a lot to be desired.

I wouldn't be surprised to see next seasons U21 manager run an outside offence on numerous occasions during next seasons tournament...