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181865.89 in reply to 181865.88
Date: 5/31/2011 4:40:43 PM
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that is a lot to read, and I'm too tired, so maybe some time later.

but let me already react to this:
But quadruple 14's just don't cut it anymore.

I didn't say they do, I said I would chose such a player over Dorchain...
Maybe you have the impression he does perform good, but purely theorethical, I know the quadruple 14 is the better player.
But I always view things from a neutral point of view. I like to have all options open. IF you attack inside all the time, Dorchain might be the slightly better choice, but I just don't like to be predictable...

The same is true for the U21 now. Beckers is better as long as Joe keeps attacking inside, yet some day he'll pay the price for that. And maybe there are people that say, well I'd like to pay with 1 or 2 games if I can win the rest with it. But personally I always aim for the highest goals, so dropping a few games on purpose is not amongst my tactical choices.

A short while ago Belgium was no team to be afraid of. Lately Joe and Sum, and also you the last cuple of seasons have made Belgium grow.
Now they come to a point where the top teams will need to take heed for our NT teams. This is the point where we must push through, to place ourselves amongst the top. The downside is that we will be looked upon a little more carefull as well. And the strongly inside oriented teams we have been creating, and almost all the time playing inside offense, will not go unnoticed. It might be the factor that will hold us back from pushing forward from here on. At least, that's my view. I have always had success with a balanced team, and have seen teams, stronger then mine, fall, just because they where , or had become, 1 sided.

They are not your friends; they dispise you. I am the only one you can count on. Trust me.
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181865.92 in reply to 181865.83
Date: 6/2/2011 6:11:45 PM
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Sum_41 and Jujubbterrible say a littke "hello" from the island of Sal (cabo Verde) :p

Sun, cocktails, beach volley and swimmingpool... that all we need here :p

P.S. Joe.... don't try to win our match it's impossible :p

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181865.94 in reply to 181865.90
Date: 6/4/2011 7:02:01 AM
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You always make the same mistake: you talk about what you will do for your team when we talk about a national team

I think it is you who is making the mistake here. I am very well aware I am talking about the NT. Shot blocking is still the most underrated skill in the game, which I don't understand, especailly after the BBs have increased it's value in the game.

If a BB writes that shot blocking is more important then ID when it comes to inside defense, I'm not sure what can be misunderstood about it. To me it literally says that a ID14 and SB15 will defend better inside then a 15ID and 14SB player.

So picking a ID16 SB10 player over a ID14 SB14 player, solely for better inside defense is unexplainable to me.

If I say I would pick a quadruple 14 for the NT, I'm not talking about wage at all, just about performance. If I talk about players for my own team, it's the same actually, wage is secundary to performance, it just happens to be so that the BBs programmed it that the best players, have the lower wage, which is something I like offcourse!

A few persistent ideas still keep living in BB, and the way I see it, they only do, because (almost) nobody is trying to do it diffrently. Either because they are afraid it will fail, or because they believe they are sure what they think is true, or just don't think it could be diffrent, or any other reason...

I have the luck to be around for a long tmie, and I did get to test various types of players, whitout picking the very extremes ofcourse (I think extremes are not working, maybe I should try it out anyway. ). The players which had very high primaries, but where not realy balanced, where the players leaving the team fastest. The ones that I expected would not make the cut anymore, back when I did try win the titles, where somethimes played in important games, due to minute distribution, or because I just had 3 big games in 1 week, and I was surpriced at how well their performance matched the onces of the "clearly" better players.

Actually, since a while I have been reveiling most of my "little secrets" either in private to you and Revo, or lately even in public. Something I only started doing after I reached my goals, because before that they did give me the edge I often needed to win the games. Sharnig the info I have gathered by reading relyable posts, and based on my experience is realy all I can do. It's up to the receiver what the want to do with it.

A player has NEVER too much outside defense, whatever the position.
This is very true.
The best thing that the NT can field is 5 players, all with legendary on all skills. If I say his OD is to high, I mean that the training that has gone in it, would be much more rewarding if something else would have been trained. Maybe he started out with 7 already, and just popped to 8 with secondary training. In that case, it's just the way it is, and nothing could be done, but if he received a single traniing of pressing, after he reached 5 (or even 4, if he still needed other outside training that had OD as secondary) it's a waste, it also holds back his important skills when he caps. Cs don't take too much 3 point shots, unless the opposing C has 1 or 2 on OD. If they still try, a 5 is mostly enough to prevent the score, given your team's OD rating is high enough.
So technically his OD is not to high, but he could be a much better player if it wheren't so high. Hope this clarifies it a bit.
But it all comes back down to the same thing, if you start creating a team out of balance, you need more and more tweaks and turns to keep it on track. If a PF is played at SF, it lowers the OD rating of the team a bit, which makes it so that your PF and C will need higher OD personnaly, which will lead to their other skills being lower somewhere, which then has to be compensated by the other players in the team. On it's own, this is possible, but it gets realy nasty when the coach starts subbing...

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181865.97 in reply to 181865.96
Date: 6/4/2011 10:42:04 AM
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OD 1 or 2 indeed is low for any player, I was talking about at least 4, prefereably 5, for C.

If the opposing C has 11 or 12 on JS, he ain't a C, he's a PF, and then the opposing coach is playing a PF on C position.

JS isn't THAT important against OD, JR is the biggest factor that count there.

OD is not the most important skill in the game. The most important skill depends on the tactics played, and the teams you face. It so happens that in the BBBL, OD indeed often is (one off) the most important skills, but if the BBBL would be heavely inside oriented, having strong OD wouldn't help much...





They are not your friends; they dispise you. I am the only one you can count on. Trust me.
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