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220704.1
Date: 06/24/2012 07:07:49
Kira Kira Koseki
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Some Scottish team by the name of Orkney CaberTossers decided to up and fire our man Radford, the best pure center Australia has and one who could arguably have been last seasons finals MVP for Koop had he not gone down in the conference finals

Anyway, I guess this is goodbye to the beast, as no-one in their right mind is going to pay [dr evil]1 million dollars[/dr evil] for such a player that's indeed a beast center, but lacks outside presence and costs so much to keep on your team. Yes, we do have a few better rounded bigs that we can rely on to have good game shape over Radford so the national team shouldn't be affected, but that isn't the point. The point is that aforementioned Scottish team just dealt us a low blow. Buys the guy for 350k, plays him in one league game he was going to win anyway, sacks him.

I might do a write-up on Radford if and when he falls through and retires. It'll be trying to work out how he made as many 3's as he did in Seasons 14 and 15 considering the fact he only has inept Jump Range...

PS: Many thanks to RazorSharp for giving me supporter (despite me refusing to be given it :P).

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220704.2 in reply to 220704.1
Date: 06/24/2012 07:37:23
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Great work. I think the days for Radford on the NT were limited anyway. Best C we ever had but no club team other than a farm or Koop wants players like that anymore.

Last edited by yodabig at 06/24/2012 07:37:34

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220704.3 in reply to 220704.2
Date: 06/24/2012 09:25:39
Koopasaurus
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Radford was aiight.. he was god but could've better if he didn't get injured.

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220704.4 in reply to 220704.3
Date: 06/24/2012 16:04:25
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Radford was aiight.. he was god but could've better if he didn't get injured.


God doesn't get injured.

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220704.5 in reply to 220704.4
Date: 06/24/2012 17:58:16
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I wonder if his original owner will come out of nowhere to snap him up!

I still remember him putting the fear of god into me with Phoenix 5 back in my early ABBL days.

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220704.6 in reply to 220704.4
Date: 06/24/2012 18:16:28
Koopasaurus
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Good*

comparing him to God is just not an option.

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220704.7 in reply to 220704.5
Date: 06/26/2012 03:27:32
Koopasaurus
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Original owner already has a younger replacement in the making... Noa Wall (19609215).

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220704.8 in reply to 220704.1
Date: 06/26/2012 04:36:37
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Without coming across as being critical because I think u doing a great job, but is it a tactic of urs to pick national team members who r not just awesome players but r also of low 'management,' risk.....that is..u know they will be game shape managed AND the owner isn't going to fob them off after two weeks?
Or do we just not have that luxury here in oz?

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220704.9 in reply to 220704.8
Date: 06/26/2012 06:42:51
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Well, the national players are all high calibre players. Only a few with similar skills are not on the team because of gameshape issue: Radford, Chandler, Duffill. If they can return back to top gameshape then they will get game time.

Also, the national team is restricted to a maximum of 18 players on the rosters so you must carefully select the squad base on skills and gameshape. No national team in the world can afford to carry these sort of players. It will limit the number of players able to be selected for the games and kicking players off the squad isn't viable without decreasing enthusiasm. So yeah, even if a player is trained properly but their gameshape is poorly managed then they won't ever make the team.

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220704.10 in reply to 220704.9
Date: 06/26/2012 07:03:30
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Gameshape issues are a NT and U21 NT coaches worst nightmares.

That paired with no scouting tool!

From: yodabig

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220704.11 in reply to 220704.10
Date: 06/26/2012 08:52:24
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How about having to play big men with "average" in one of their three primaries, guards with respectable OD or guys that have no stats in double figures at all.