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Well that is it. The competitive season is over.

DEN 74 IND 61

Thanks to everyone for their efforts and I really think we have over achieved. We had a MUCH MUCH MUCH worse team than Danmark U21 and came close. A pity that our best player was in horrible GS, our second best capped half way through the season and our third best was in even worse GS.

Farooq Ishtaq (18250492) Weekly salary: $ 23 361 Game Shape: average
Ghanya Tanwar (18569762) Weekly salary: $ 15 833 Potential: starter Game Shape: proficient
Shipirist Rath (18250544) Weekly salary: $ 14 202 Game Shape: mediocre

So we were relying on players like Singh and Rai with $13,000 salaries to take down Danmarks $30,000 players. Unrealistic I know but the fact that we even got close is teriffic.

Danmarks starting five is incredible.

This was the last real game for the season and the last game for the 21 year olds. From now on it is scrimmages and a chance to look at next season's players as well as being able to save every Indian player from botting teams.

So a great job everyone.

Now it is like a game of Survivor, the power now swings back to all of you. Do you guys want me back? Shall we continue the work? Is there a local that wants to take over? What is the team's next challenge? What is my next challenge?

Well done and I think we have a lot to be excited about for the future.

Looking at the team ratings and the match up ratings, it should have been a closer game I think. But they scored more points from the FT too while we couldn't even make 50% of our FTs, which was a pity. And the players who could have contributed much more if not for the bad GS etc.

But overall, with the current team, our performance was fantastic. And big thanks to yodabig for getting the maximum out of our team :)


Personally, I really liked the way that we've been working in U-21 NT and I think this should definitely continue in future. This is still early in the season to say, but I vote yodabig for the U-21 NT coach for Season 18 and 19!!!

Great job, Yoda, given what you had. Too bad about Denmark and it wasn't so far off. I'm sorry about Farooq.

I believe you should stay on and, what's more, continue on for at least one more session to get the reward of the players now being trained.

Well we lost to Macau in the scrimmage game, but the result is not so important.

Some random, and fascinating stuff!
1. M Singh and A Dalal fouled out in 20 minutes...wow that's pretty bad. These guys are pretty foul prone, and hopefully won't cause too many problems in future.
2. A. Choubey, who played as a SG pretty much for the rest of the game after M Singh got fouled out, performed fantastic, giving a rating of 11.0!!! He certainly has a bright future :)

The match revealed our weakness, rebounding. The big-men have decent IS, okok ID, but many of them have low rebounding. That's an area that we need to work on.

nice to see choubey giving nice ratings...;)
but on the whole there were a bit too many fouls by our players.but the strange thing was that rai played only 2 mins.i mean his defense could have been crucial coz their SG scored quite nicely.and yes,rebounding is a concern,i have already asked dalal's manager to train him in rebounding in the remaining weeks of the season.

My bigmen trainees are being trained properly, but their managers seem to value offense waaaaay more than defense. (Personally, I value defense more). I keep suggesting that training defense will even make them better, balanced, and more useful rather than only super good offense and wtf defense, but the managers just don't seem to understand. It takes me a lot of effort to convince them to train defense and rebounding... :P

same is the case with kadir's manager.i had been requesting him to train him in ID and reb but he didnt listen...it took me quite some weeks to make him do some ID and reb training.....
and yes i too value defense more than offense and this is what i have been doing to my trainees.the defenses of all of them are higher than their defenses but many new managers dont accept this coz in the real basketball,offense usually better defense off and the managers want the same to be here too...

Defense wins championships. My coach always says that. Even if the offense is strong, it's no good if you can't stop your opponent from scoring as well. Oh well...some managers don't understand...

I can totally agree with both of you. If you look at the players on my team that I trained:

Vallo Tammela top stat defence.
Mu Hongyun second top stat defence.
Oliver Ðuričko top stat defence.
Barton Melmeth second top stat defence.
Diptavrna Kumar top stat defence.

While we have lost all these scrimmages due to the enthusiasm one it has been good to see who the computer does and doesn't play as I continue to "let the coach decide" until the real games begin next season. I hope no-one minds the scrimmage losses but the aim for me has been to win the real games and use the scrimmages to experiment and give the players experience.

Season 17 record:
Real games: 4/8.
Scrimmages: 0/5 (and soon to be 0/6).

Whoever is in charge next season will have a really interesting team that with a good draw should be able to make some good wins, however as we have said there are some major flaws that need to be addressed.

I doubt anybody is so pissed off with the fact that we're losing scrimmages. I mean, the focus should be on trying different things to see what works the best etc.

Next season should be better than this season, but I'm not sure if we'll be strong enough to get some good wins (ofc that depends on the opponents). In season 19, the team should be in a solid state, but I'm wondering whether the team can be as good as last season's, or the season before the last.

Last edited by Samurai_Tungi at 10/26/2011 6:56:23 AM

Season 18 we will have a better team that season 17, however we have had bad luck with the draw so far in a way.

Season 16 good team and horrible draw.
Season 17 horrible team and great draw.
Season 18 we will have a good team.
Season 19 we will have a great team. That is the season I hope we can really do well, however it will depend on how we went in season 18 if we are in the World Championships, the repecharge or the Consolation tournament.