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I would say that before thinking to hire staff we need a better minute management. 😂
Too many players over 90 minutes, which means sure drop in shape.
So please hire staff but be careful with your players.
We are doing scrimmages against teams in the world championship too, we played Egypt then we faced a good team like Peru who has similar players to ours, and tomorrow we raise again the bar with our usual friendly vs Italy.
Italy and China look heavy candidates to win the big prize. Our team is at the opposite than last season. Last season we had two amazing players for u21 level like fornoles and gavadan, surrounded by a group of middle level players well sorted around our stars.
This season we have many more good players but noone is as great as gavadan or fornoles. So it will be a bit strange after a season like the previous one, in which we claimed the gold, to adapt our style to a well rounded team 😊
These friendlies are giving us info we hope to use in the competition. We need to have a bit of luck in the draw, it's true we will avoid China but potentially we can have USA Italy and from the repechage France or Germany who are clearly at a higher level than ours.
So we need to sneak a bit to get to the second round which is my personal goal 😉
Step by step and let's see 😂

Gameshape is not an exact science in buzzerbeater but atrocious to awful the stamina generally 55-60 minutes, inept to average 60-65, respectable to prominent maybe not more than 65-75mins. Dont know if these figures are agreeable to you this are just my observations from being a vet and lurking in the forums for all these years. Going over 75 mins in a week is dangerous for a GS drop. There also some managers who believe that minutes are cumulative week per week but I disagree with that thinking because when you buy a player from the transfer list you can get him back in good game shape in 2-3 weeks.

I have the same observation with the minutes, Coach Obi. Players with high stamina (respectable and above) tend to play more than 70 minutes.

Also want to add change of ownership now will surely add to GS drops baka pwede pagkatapos na lang ng tournament. Sacrifice muna tayo lahat for the sake of the team. I know its tempting to sell your trainees during this time but we really need ownership to be stable during the tournament.

And we have the group.
This time we have been lucky, we avoided the monster group with USA France China Germany and Poland 😂
Our calendar anyway is the worst possible, having to deal immediately with italy and having Israel only as last opponent.
So please give me shaped players because we need to pick up wins sooner than later.
Opponents: Italy, Peru, Egypt, Spain and Israel.

Just for curiosity the first three are our scrimmages of this season 😂

Egypt is the only team we have a decisive and clear edge. I expect every game to be close. If your staff can send bb mails friendly reminders for gameshape to the owners that would be awesome. Spain and Peru are not to be taken lightly though i think we have a slight edge. Best effort is all we can ask. No politics, criticism and excuses. Win or lose I think we are all proud that we are competing.

Tough loss against Italy but I hope we bounce back against Peru. Peru took it easy in their last game. Spain caught a break with wrong GDP against Israel. Tough matches for sure remain in our schedule. Our shape was pretty good this week, just didnt have enough firepower to match up. Lets hope we catch a break next week, good luck coach.

Italy - Philippines 123-89

Mixed feelings after this match. We faced probably the best team in the world and we've been annihilated worse than I expected at first. Our offense is really good, our outside rating is probably the best along all the competition but indeed without defense and rebounding you can't win matches.
Italians big men are outstanding and despite my clinched prediction they shopped baskets for free in our paint.
We can say we allowed many oreb tap in, but generally speaking they are too ahead of us right now where primaries count considering low enth for all teams. Our scorers did it good with de lira torching Italians small forward and gamosa putting up a solid Performance. Our bench didn't do their job and our power forward position has been dismantled in all his rotating players. Lim buiza and Domingo were outscored by salary record man Argappio.
No drama for this loss, we can start our competition next week vs Peru.

Mvp: Bill Leon De Lira

This match pissed me off.
We shot better, we made more assist, we had better ratings, we had better matchups. And we lost.
I can't find a good reason, since basically despite their prediction our flow was brilliant, we did it great on offense.
Rebounding continues to be an issue unfortunately, but indeed losing a match because of our free throws % makes me really sad.
This was a match to win, we lost, so basically now our championship road is really difficult. I hope to find a way to come out, but by the way thanks to you because the roster was greatly shaped.
Unluckily first matches need primaries more than secondaries, in the Asia championship we usually have time to recover primaries during first group, now we're struggling since opponents are really tough.

Oh by the way congratulations to Peru for a great match.

Last edited by NdR619 - Pilipinas U21 at 03/04/2019 15:23:10

Its fine coach. It could have easily been us winning the game instead. I hope the others realize the talent we need to actually pull this off. We are not that far. No huge salaries in this team but clearly better overall. So 1 or 2 studs more make a huge difference. I look at it as a preview of what we might accomplish if we can have total cooperation from our local trainers. We just need a bit more talent.