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Hello,

Season 30 starts, but we still don't know against who we will play.

Last season we pop 10 places in the rankings, from No. 87 to No. 78. I hope we can even more.

I spent a lot of time in the development of young players, this season they will play biggest role than last season, we have 3 players in the ages 23-25 that will play big role this season: Wayne Burton, Jeffrey Styles, Dylan Blundell, they wondrful players. there are 4 players that now 22 years old, last season they played in the U21NT, and they have great potential for the NT. next few days I will be in contact with them.

During the season Wally Granner retires from the NT, I hope that he could keep on his great skills for a while.

After I see agnist who we going to play, I can say what I hope to do.

I try to find whoever can play in our NT, I hope that I found all of them, if one of you, know about some players or even one player, that you think that he can play for the NT, please contact with me and let me know.

Good Luck for all of us.

Have a great season!

Are the 3 guards that have been listed on the transfer market getting the chop from the squad??

Sorry for the late response.
Anyway, this week we started the season, this season we play in Consolation Tournament.
2 first games (one was, against Israel), the second will be next monday (against Greece), very difficult, I hope that our next matchs will be better.

Short summary about the game against Israel:
It was easier to prepare for the game against Israel, because I know all the Israeli roster (except one player that I didnt knoe his update skills). On the other hand, it means that I understood immediately that we don't have a chance against them, at the center position they have a small advantage for us, but in all other positions, 1-4, they are much better, in everything.

The final result was better than what I had thought:

New Zealand 98
Israel 121

Darren Fisher with great performance.

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Weekly salary: $ 227 321
Age: 31
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Game Shape: proficient
Jump Shot: prominent Jump Range: average
Outside Def.: awful Handling: awful
Driving: average Passing: inept
Inside Shot: phenomenal Inside Def.: phenomenal
Rebounding: phenomenal Shot Blocking: proficient
Stamina: inept Free Throw: respectable

Experience: strong

New Zealand 121
Malta 89
This week, we won a game first time in this tournament, this season.
victory agnist Malta, unfortunately, our game shape was very low this week, our 3 stars was on game shape 6, injured and 7. this can't help us, so I had to make special adjustments. It did not bother us win this time, but we miss a point difference that we could achive.
In the following 4 weeks we have games against: Sverige, Portugal, Italy and Moldova.
None of this games will be easy, but we hope to achive from these games the best possible.

good luck for us!

W-O-W
great game for us.

Final
Sverige 111
New Zealand 120

before this week, I think that this is a game that we can steal, we are weak than Sverige, but, the diffrences is not so big, but, the weekly game shape update, last friday, say other, we have 16 players in our NT roster, 5 of them are on game shape of 6 to 7. another 2 are injured. and we don't have a lot of "option 2", the amunt of good NZ players are limited. we have a problem, big problem for us.
I think about this a lot, finally I decide to take a risk, we go on this game, and bet about everything, I play crunch time, after the game, we can say, it succed, but it was really hard. if our game shape was better, even with our roster, we can do more.

anyway, Dylan Blundell was great!, he keep us in the game in the 1Q, Darren Fisher also great, as he does always. he is great. our star, no qustion, and most important, have great game shape until now, every game.

this is our best game, best result, in last 2 seasons. I really happy about this. great game for us!

Hello,
Great victory for us aganist Moldova, the last game for this season, I want to speak about one player - Jayse Wilkins, who recorded a great game today, and in general, although we have better players from him, in his position,he is the only one who kept all season high game shape, so for his coach thank you!

We finished a great season, I will not make a final summary here, he still would wait, but a third win in the tournament consolation, a great achievement!
New Zealand was unable to reach 3 wins in Consolation Tournament since Season 22 (which was a great achievement).
Everyone shares this achievement, the coaches players, the ones who kept more there players in good game shape (and those who are less keep ..), the wonderful Israeli man, Yossi who helped me a lot, who responded in this post and encouraged the community, and the single guy who chose me, thank you.

I had great fun to manage the NT in past two seasons, I don't know if I tried to run for this position again or not, but thank you all :)

* I will do a longer summary once the season end, so we can see what his our ranking and which players we have in our roster. thank you all:)

I think you can be happy. You have few responses and 53% as a coach. I work 2 seasons as Saudi Arabia's NT, with 0% ... with 5-3 record in this tournament. so ... go on as NT-Coach. If you dont want, let me know and i can try my luck being elected

Thanks for the encouragement, Probably I would try to run again as coach of the NT, I hope that if I elected again, NZ could pop in the NT Rankings, and to continue develop young players.