Your username sounds familiar to me... Can you tell us more about your club results and why you made a new account?
We used to have great u21 managers, but I think the problem was that managing u21 took a lot more time than managing a senior squad, because there's a lot more players who can potentially reach u21 NT.
Our previous success with u21 came from a lot of hard work from our NT managers and scouts who were in constant contact with everyone having a potential u21 trainee, and every draft there were 150+ players with 6+ potential.
Than the BBs made 19yo better, and thus even more players were supposed to be scouted and followed, and we simply didn't have enough people in the community to do it.
We don't need to look at Israel to know that the success of both NTs is possible, since Serbia has already done it before. But a lot of hard work is needed from the entire community, and that's something we've failed to do in the recent years.
With the number of users that we have at the moment, all draftees with 10 AND 9 potential are planned to be trained for a senior squad, meaning secondary skill training in the first few seasons is a priority. Only those MVPs with poor secondary skills (ex. a tall 18yo with low OD) are usually planned to be trained for u21.
I agree that we can still have a strong u21 without “sacrificing” 9-10 potentials. Guards with 7-8pot won't reach their limit in the first 4 seasons anyway, and even those with 6pot can be beast LI guards with high OD and IS. The problem is inside, but even if we can't focus on training primary skills as much as other bigger nations, our centers should have better secondary skills, and as you pointed out, shot blockers can also be very helpful for u21, since SB doesn't cost much, and can be trained to a high level even on lower potentials.
It seems that you shook our sleeping community a bit, which is what we needed
Both candidates seem to be a good choice at this point, so whoever gets elected, I expect better times for our u21.
Mislim da nece biti lose ako nam E.B.W. bude selektor. Vidi se da ima iskustva i motivacije, a osvojiti 4 zlata zaredom je vraski tesko sa bilo kojom reprezentacijom, tako da za to skidam kapu.
S druge strane mislim da bi i Trba bio dobar izbor. Medju nama je “burna proslost”, ali to je ostalo tamo gde i treba, u proslosti. Ako ima motivacije da zapne sa radom, verujem da bi u21 mogla da se uzdigne sa njim. Ako vec ima dobar odnos sa sismisom, to je definitivno plus, jer ako cemo ponovo da napravimo paukovu mrezu u koju 'vatamo BB sile, dobra saradnja izmedju dva selektora je tamo gde mreza pocinje da se plete.
Sacekacu da vidim sta jos kandidati imaju da napisu pre nego sto glasam. Ali dugo nismo imali dve kvalitetne opcije za selektora. Ko god da pobedi imace moju podrsku... sve dok ne bude izgubio prvi mec, onda naravno krece pljuvacina u stilu Darka Milicica
