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We're beating Peru u21 at half time! Come tune iiin.
Their starting bigs: 34k salary, 531 tsp and 30 / 645. Ours: 23 / 296 and 7 / 133.
Neutralised so far by a double correct prediction B)

England 72 - 93 Finland

Gutted. Honestly the game was uphill all night and painful to watch. I had expected us to win this before the update on Friday, but when I saw that we had only one big in half decent shape and all our other bigs either 7 or less game shape I just knew we were screwed. The team did their best, but we got nuked by our lack of inside offensive punch. The guards struggled with no inside to pass to, resulting in them taking more risky shots and so we got rolled.

Sadly that ends what could have been a fun finale. Well done to all the managers and thanks for the in general support folks. These sorts of losses are the way it goes in NT, we can only do one game at a time and have to make the most of it.

In the scrims I’ll look to use some younger players, our team needs some new blood, especially inside!



Last edited by LA-Vecx at 2/26/2018 5:15:11 PM

Bad luck in some games for you guys that could have placed you higher in the table if the results of those close games were different. One of those games was against us in the first round, a very close that could have been won by both sides.

Great respect for Vecx

Good luck for you in the future.
Greetings,
Jonas

(sorry for any language mistake, hope my ideas are clear)

Last edited by Jonas at 2/26/2018 7:50:37 PM

Sadly from your side, we played our best game of tournament against you guys. Now we are both out of the competition, but let's have a new shot next season All the best for England.

Good effort Vecx, Osman got turned over on GS this season, never known a sequence so bad.

its cool mate, we hurt bad when he isnt in shape but its life. I remember a season where i couldnt shake the 7 GS starting bug on innes for about 6 straight weeks. Clearly we need to sacrifice more rookies to the BB gods

Hey all.

I genuinely had the best of intentions to write match reports this season, and even after each game I thought I might do it this week, but I guess I'm just a bit shit? (and BB international management is really most suited to Uni students with loads of free time on their hands I reckon...not that I imagine many people that age are playing it these days). Just life and feeling busy innit...soz like.

On Monday we have the first knockout round. There is 0 chance we get through unfortunately. 0.5% if I'm generous? :) We ended up with a 6-2 record and the 22nd seed and are playing away at 7-1 Russia. Russia should be an 8-0 team and 6th/7th seed really, for some reason Lithuania crunched Russia (on a TIE). Lith got a home seed which they wouldn't have had otherwise so maybe that was worth it for them.

Other potential opponents:
9th, Netherlands - probably better than us and beat us last year, but no monsters.
10th, Uruguay - one big looking C but nothing too scary.
11th, Russia
12th, Slovakia - Good gs and not sure I fancy them much either (beat us in the first game this season, but less effort on our part), at least less good than Russia.
13th, Belarus - definitely look beatable. Would've been the dream draw. (they've played 1 good team this season)

Maybe not that unlucky in the end? I just wanna play Belarus tbh.

This U21 game against Russia is really distracting me from my work but I can't stop watching...

Just an update as you may have noticed there have been no writeups these last few weeks.

I've been arranging scrims with other NT's that did not make the next stage of the competition. I have been using the lineup that is most likely to be playing next seasons, whilst introducing a few options in younger bigs. I've got 1 or 2 more games lined up with Finland and will be varying tactics in order to see how well our team performs under certain conditions. This is all legwork for next seasons and hopefully we will see a little more breakthrough should the work pay off.

In the mean time it is worth trying to get good gameshape on the players you see on our roster as that affects my choices and also will result in better merchandising your team.

Thanks again folks.

It's fortunate that you are a better GM than you are tipster Bergkamp ;-) Great win!

I'm assuming that if you gave yourself 0.5% of beating Russia, the chance of you doing that and then having to prepare to play Albania were the smallest number you could think of.....

Season 41 U21 raw player stats for anyone interested(competitive games only)

player         mins     pts     ass     rebs    stl    blk      +-
									
Mahoney	      346      132     30       42      13      4      104
Arthur        342      101     17       110     8       18      87
Gibney        329      88      41       69      9       8       92
Stannard      313      173     42	38	7	6	50
Parmenter     169      70      12	60	5	9	88
Tewari        165      60      12	47	5	10     123
Murdoch	      153      43      9	28	3	3	93
Stanborough   151      40      2	63	2	2      111
Lal	      148      86      16	23	6	4	98
Allen	      147      52      8	36	4	4	16
Cummins	      141      50      19	9	5		98
Flanagan       57      2       5	2	1	1	10
Redman	       54      18      2	18	1	3	35
Hall	       41      20      4	3	1	2	12
Bartolo	       39      11      2	10	3	1	19
Banker	       36      20      4	17		1	31
Mocarski       21      8		6			-9

(I've had to sacrifice the "starts" and "subs" columns to fit in the +- instead)
So, #of starts:
All 11: Mahoney, Arthur; 10: Gibney; 8: Stannard; 4: Allen; 3: Parmenter, Lal; 2: Tewari; 1: Murdoch, Stanborough, Redman

Small samples all around so you have to take it all with a pinch of salt maybe.

You can see they split into 3 groups quite nicely, the 4 guaranteed starters if they were fit and in good GS (Mahoney, Stannard, Gibney and Arthur), the solid backups/sometime starters (Parmenter down to Cummins) then the fringe players from Flanagan downwards. 17 players got minutes over the season (the unlucky guy I called up but didn't use- Mat Dupre, HOF potential with good TSP who sold for 2.6m last season so he might have long term NT potential instead, didn't end up with enough defence or game shape for me to use unfortunately)

Per 36s for the 4 starters (pts, ass, reb, stl, blk):
Mahoney: 13.7, 3.1, 4.4, 1.4, 0.4
Stannard: 19.9, 4.8, 4.4, 0.8, 0.7
Gibney: 9.6, 4.5, 7.6, 1.0, 0.9
Arthur: 10.6, 1.8, 11.6, 0.8, 1.9

Other standout stuff:
Lal average 20+ points per 36, Cummins had the best assists at 4.9, Stanborough the best rebounder (15 per 36) but at 0.5 assists, blocks and steals he couldn't do much else (unlike the 2 guys below)
Parmenter: 14.9, 2.6, 12.8, 1.1, 1.9
Tewari: 13.1, 2.6, 10.3, 1.1, 2.2
Really small samples but Bartolo with 2.8 steals and Banker with a ridiculous 20pt, 17rb, 4as statline are impressive.

It was a fun season overall! I didn't have hopes of making the last 8 and things just fell pretty nicely. If Israel was either at home for us, or they didn't use more effort that was a close matchup we could've won, they weren't a standout 4 seed...I went with a TIE just to give us the smallest chance vs Germany in the next round, in the end they won the tournament pretty comfortably/impressively (due to the way the semi's fell).

Arthur, Allen, Cummins, Flanagan and Bartolo are all back this year so we have some decent experience/quality in our these 5 (hopefully).

Last edited by Bergkamp at 4/14/2018 6:10:53 AM