Season 20 ReviewOur primary goal each season is to advance past the first round. Unfortunately this season we did not accomplish this. However, this was mostly a result of a very difficult schedule and I will show you that we performed better that our WW ranking. In fact, maybe you could argue we should be ranked 39th.
Summary of Results:Games against teams ranked better than 39th = 0 Wins, 4 Losses
Games against teams ranked 39th = 1 Win, 1 Loss
Games against teams ranked worse than 39th = 2 Wins, 0 Losses
Based on the above and considering we’ve been ranked between 45 and 55 throughout the season I’d say this wasn’t too bad. And, I think everyone would agree we’re doing much better than we did with the previous manager.
Here are the results again by game, ordered by opponents ranking so you can see for yourself.
@ 14 Argentina Lost 111-119*
Vs 20 Hong Kong Lost 86-110
@ 26 Schweiz Lost 0-25*
@ 31 Eesti Lost 80-107
@ 39 Srbija Lost 91-121
Vs 39 Deutschland Won 109-92
Vs 75 Cyprus Won 112-97
Vs 78 Scotland Won 127-97
(*) On the negative side, we did have the one bug induced forfeit against Schweiz, but there’s a good chance we would have lost that anyway. But from a positive, we did take #14 Argentina to overtime and had a lead with just a few seconds left in the 4th.
Player PerformanceI have compiled the complete player stats for Season 20. You can find it posted here:
http://sdrv.ms/QYAWVwHere are the Leaders for Season 20:
Top Scorer – Furusawa 195Pts, 27.9 per game
FG% (20 shot minimum) – Furusawa 62%
3P% - Ochi 38%
FT% - Kouzuki 100%
Reb – Furusawa 73, 10.4 per game
Ast – Tagawa 33, Ochi 6.4 per game
STL – Tagawa 7, 1.0 per game
+/- Saiki, +8.6 per game
There were 4 players who did not see any playing time: Hara, Shibukji, Tsunami, Asano. Tsunami and Asano are on the roster as prospects so they are excused. To continue the teams youth movement I will remove Hara and Shibukji and consider some younger replacements. Also, I will be reviewing the status of Kouzuki and Suenami since they will both be 34 next season and have had their skills slip some this season. There are a couple interesting U21 players coming up and I will also be reviewing some of the other players on the prospect list to see if they’ve made significant progress since over the last couple months.