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Thanks mate, it wasn't to be tonight. A bad GDP by me and a very good one by them made the difference - plus an all time worst ever performance by Hongjing really didn't help.
Playing for third now in next week's game. Should have definitely finished higher than that but we were just outplayed tonight.

Season 51 and our run at the Asian Cup sees us finish just short of the mark, realistically one win away from the semis. A little disappointing, but I think I've learned some things to help take us forward. Some poor game shape here and there at key times didn't help our chances.
Time to get busy preparing for next season. If you've got a player you think is around the mark message me his up to date skills and I'll have a look over the next few weeks.

In what was a tightly contested MVP race for most of the season it was our bigs who fought it out at the end, with Dawes getting over McFlynn in the final live match of the tournament for the Aussie side.

Dawes: 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 2, 3, 3, 2 = 19 votes
McFlynn: 3, 1, 3, 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 2 = 18 votes
Hongjing: 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1 = 16 votes
Grunter: 2, 2, 1 = 5 votes
Unzi: 3, 1 = 4 votes
Gibbins: 3 votes
Omu: 3 votes
Helo: 3 votes
Duffield = 2 votes
Bill = 2 votes
Sage = 2 votes
Newman = 1 vote

Congratulations to Canadian manager Csislander on keeping Dawes in ripping shape pretty much all season to get to the MVP and to Whitey for getting two guys in the top 4.

Ok, we start our repechage stage of the World Cup in the early hours of Tuesday morning. We don’t have the easiest draw with our three games, starting with Peru and followed by the Czech Republic - both of which are tough games.
There’s some good pressure building on the National Squad, thanks to the training efforts of many, many trainers. With depth starting to build it is essential managers keen on their player being on the team to keep that player in quality game shape. After this week good will be good, but proficient will be better.

While I’ve scoured a number of prospects over the last two weeks, and some of may have seen one of your players go on and off the roster, I may have missed some trainable players do always feel welcome to BB mail me the skills of a guy you think is a potential future player.
If I did put your guy on and take him off again that doesn’t mean he’s not going to get a chance - I’ve deliberately left roster spots open for players who develop mid season.

Looking forward to have a crack at my first World Cup, even though it’s a hard climb from where we’re starting.

Let’s get cracking!

And merry Christmas to the Aussie community, stay safe over the coming weeks and ball hard!

Coach Deano

Princeton for the win!

Thanks Woody and Aussie dude, we had a solid night of basketball and picked up two wins over quite decent sides.
Great to see some younger guys coming into the squad and playing big roles in a win, too.
I cannot stress this enough to the managers hoping to get a player on the roster - game shape, game shape, game shape! We have some depth and while I know it’s not a perfect science, so long as you are keeping an eye on his minutes (not starting all three games each week, for example) you should do ok. BB Mail me directly if any managers want help with this.
We have open spots on the roster for improving players across the season, so if your guy pops or you want some guidance on what he might need to improve his chances, get in touch with me.

Huge game for us this week! Win this and we are right in the mix to play World Cup. Let’s get after it! If anyone has thoughts on MVP voting from our first couple of games feel free to make suggestions on here and I’ll factor them in,

The Aussies are coming!

In the early hours of tomorrow morning our National Team suits up against a higher ranked Czech Rep side in what will likely determine the top place in our repechage pool.
We’ll have a fight in our hands in this one but we’re a plucky unit and we’ll be giving it our best crack. A win here should push us a little deeper inside the top 20 sides in the world, which is amazing given the number of managers we have operating in Aus.

I’ll re-emphasise my earlier post here - if we get through this match, in order to have success against the top ranked sides we have to work together on game shape between 50 and 75 minutes per week is a rough guide, but it varies from player to player.
If you want to play your man 100 minutes per week, that’s your call, but his chances of getting minutes in the national team will probably suffer due to the decline in game shape- unless you plan to train game shape.

Game starts 5:30am AEDST. Let’s get after it!

Well, we gave it a crack but some slick shooting from the Czech Rep side from long range brought us undone in the end, going down by 12 points.
Given the majority of our side was in respectable game shape or lower and the majority of their side was in proficient or strong that's probably to be expected.
It's going to make it very, very tough to earn a spot in the World Cup from here (would need a miracle really).

A couple of learnings. Outside D is more important than ever now that the new Game Engine has improved the chances of long range shooters. If you want to get a player in the side as a guard they have to be 19 or above in OD (preferably 20). Even to break into the side as a SF you either need to be 18 or above at this stage with very strong ID as well or effectively be a PF with 16 or above OD. But subsequent to this is passing. Our opponents this morning moved the ball really well. I've felt for a while that we don't value passing outside of the PG position highly enough. Ideally it would be good if all of our players had a little bit of passing, but to be a PG in the side 16 is the minimum I think and it would be great to see our SGs with at least 14 as well. Even getting around the 12 mark for a SF would be great, but certainly 10 or above.

And, of course, game shape. I'm fairly confident our opponents collectively trained game shape last week to get to the level they were in the second week after a reset. It is that sort of team effort towards getting the job done that separates the top sides in the world from the middle tier. If you want your guy playing National level it is essential you look after his minutes - again, as a rough guide, between 50 and 75 minutes per week is usually around the mark but it varies from player to player. Typically if you are training your player 48 minutes in the position you are training and then coming off the bench in a second game and not playing in the third is about perfect, of if you are not training the player still (older player) two starts per week and no minutes in the third game often is ok, unless you guy is getting 40 minutes per game, then you have to monitor it.

I'm always up for a conversation about how to elevate this team so either chat here or via direct BB Mail if you have ideas of a player you think should be in the team.

One more game to come in this pool - let's finish this one with a win and see what happens.

Coach Deano