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true that. My team wasn't able to keep up with your team.

bahah, it helps when i started about half a season early

Unfortunately, the season actually ended today, we failed, Why did we fail? Probably there are a lot of reasons, a combination of my mistakes, bad luck (2 losses in the final minutes), my wrong management of games, bad game shape from big part of our players (our 2 best players in the inside position play on game shape 7 or less in most of this season).

I realy sorry.

Half-time
NZ - 61
Saudi Arabia - 52

4 min to final
NZ 107
Saudi Arabia - 103

great game!
I hope that we save this advantage.

final
NZ 123
Saudi Arabia - 110

Wally Granner is our STAR today, +25 when he on the floor, minus 12 when he not, the best on the court, no dobut about this, this is the time to say thank to his coach that save him in great game shape for all season long. he is realy the best.

I watched the game, was so close at one point but then NZ just took control and finished it off good, happy about that game, watching that game just reminded how important game shape actually is, some good performance from some players, hope to see more success

I also hoop for more sucess, we try to win in next week and to finish in 5th place.

Tomorrow is our last official game of this season, the opponent probably has the enthusiasm advantage, they didnt fight to take any game agnist the biggest team, but I believe in our team, our roster, we will play with full force, let's hope we win.

Summary of the season will be after the game.

(we play Scrimmage games until the end of the season, they have some points to the ranking, the better ranking that we will have, the more easier pool we earn for next seasons.

good luck for the NT.

So today, New Zealand finished a good season, could be a better season, but, 5th place,we start this season from the 7th and the last place,so it is also good, I not going to lie, at the beginning of the season I thought we could finish higher, unfortunately it did not happend.

I want to thank especially to Maccabi Big Karmiel (92608), that doing great job. he help me a lot.
I want to thank to any coach that participated in the NT, include all the coach that have players in the NT, or coach that training players for the NT.

In this season Dylan Blundell and Wayne Burton are the only young players that really play big minutes in the NT, they are really good, and they need to be our stars in next seasons, but there are some others big potnial that could help us in next years, Jeffrey Styles could be our top SF, the one that everybody dream on him, that unfortunately we didn't have right now, in this season always we have disadvantge in this position, agnist every NT, Wilson Corey is our the only one who really need to play as SF, in other minutes we play with players that need to be PF or PG, we have also others good players that need to play in next years like: Trevor Hardy or Gene Clark that right now have little more way to go before they can be NT players, Elton Cahill is also could be great players that I hope that he will play a lot in next years, in this season he dont save on good game shape, so he still dont be in our roster, but he really belong to the NZ roster, Aaludaiperumal Dulal is more big potnial for the NT, I really think that next season he will recive some minutes, and the last one is Chuck Knight, right now he do't have great chance to play in the NT, but if he can improve more, maybe he could be also potnial, all of this is our most important potnial for next season in the ages of 22 until 25 YO, I keep with all of this in touch, and see if they keep training as well, I hope that most of them will be in New Zealand NT in next seasons.

we have some old players that probbaly dont play in next season, and would retire from the NT, every week I dismiss one of them, so I want to thank to them in this moment, Scott Downey, Gandi Farhan and Wilson Corey, I still think if Joo-Sung Ham retire in this season or not.
Wally Granner is 34 years old, so this is big problem for us, he is our STAR and most important player this season, more then anyone else, he has great coach that save on him with great game shape (he is our single player that have 9 on game shape every week), I can't see any player that can do what he did in the NT, he will stay in the NT more one season before he retire.

I hope that next season would be better, and hope that I will stay the manger of New Zealand National Team for at least more 2 season, I really enjoy and learn a lot from this season, thank for everybody here.

*until the end of the season we will play Scrimmages, because scrimmages impact rankings, and rankings impact future games, once the season end, I recruit every player in NZ and check if he can do something for the NT.

my friends, someone read what I am writing?