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Thanks mate! Obsess and upwards. Oddly following that loss we rebounded back up to 19th in the rankings, so at least we’re back in the top 20 again.

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!