Your world championship medal was really remarkable. I hope to clinch the same result but taking a look at competitors... It will be difficult 😂
My previous post was simply underlying that tactic is really important when playing. And tactics have specific requirements in skills. If you ask me why aus and chn lost my answer would not be "because of Philippines hca" but it would be "because they both used the wrong tactic on offense".
It's an opinion, I don't know skills, I did only an estimate based on stats and training weeks but to play low post you should have specific players according to what I think. Low post is not a "i fear a double gdp on look inside so I play lp".
It requires good passing in centers for example, it requires good driving and is for the backcourt. And if your opponent has high defensive ratings (clearly inflated by hca but just for the record, our defensive skills were better than for example Italy, in terms of players skills, not team rating which is inflated as I said), your flow can be misdirected, your shot selection can be far from ideal.
Our offense was poor, prominent in inside scoring is really a low team rating, if you attack with a slow pace you are projecting yourself on a lower scoring effort than a fast paced. And in that case a lower scoring effort helped our (fast) offense to score the needed points to stay ahead.
I mean, these are only my opinions, my staff also identified the same thing (coach Fabio, I am talking to you! 😂). It's just to say that it's clearly true that hca is a huge factor to consider but it's also true that there was a big gap between teams and tactic choices were a key factor too.
Not using a double gdp on look inside was a precise choice we made because we predict that low post could have been used. And we considered it a mistake which could have give us the lead to win.
I am not arguing with you, it's simply that I love to speak about tactics 😂 and I love to learn something new, I won Europe and world championship with italy but believe me, I learned so many things in these three seasons as Philippines u21 Coach that gave me a boost also in my own team in Italy div 1.
Last edited by NdR619 - Pilipinas U21 at 1/29/2019 11:48:52 AM