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OD is a waste on him... he is destined to stay a Center and even with some more OD he won't be that much more effective as a PF... a few levels of PA is nice then 1.5 seasons on JS/1-1 and you've got yourself a tough guy to control scoring wise.. then as you say RB at the end and hope you can still squeeze 2-3 levels (alot again depends on IS secondaries he gets thru 1-1 training)......

He'll be a nice player but requires some thought to make the most out of what upside he still has in the tank... does he have any known sub-levels that might also eat into his cap on IS/ID?

You lucky bastard....I had 2.2 million and had someone lined up for a 1.8 million early bid and then my guy goes out and gets hurt on his first touch of the scrimmage last night...But..oh well..congrats on the baller..

Not really - if he wasn't japanese he wouldnt have been on any of my transfer filters.... I figure promote, demote, promote and he'll be 24 and the finished article... I hope the premium I paid will return back to me via extra merch... and I'll do right by him for the NT.

If you have 2.5 to spend, buy Barbera.... he gets training this week and may pop on JS/IS....it will take me a while to get Sonoda to his level... next up Yusuke!!

If you get put into the Big 8, please don't demote again..That side is a joke....Stunners could use some comp...he has 5 out of 7 TIE games over there...we have 0...

Great buy if for any other reason, he will be a staple on the national team.

I beg you to work on that game shape as soon as you can.

If we had him week, its possible that Japan could vie for a spot in the best four...just 9 points, a difference that ID against a look inside could have stopped.

But i can say this much. The National team is looking a bit better down the road.

This team has a chance to compete. With the rise of Sonoda and prehaps a couple more young bigs, the NT team will be able to patch up some of these glaring weaknesses.

And most importantly, the battle for minutes will be decided by GAME SHAPE, and nothing else.

The days of playing ANY player on a respectable due to lack of talent are quickly drawing to a close.

Goes without saying he'll take pride and place in my soon to be assembled new look roster. His ideal training routine is identical to Choi and Ochi and so the plans are Passing first so that Ochi pushes to make the PG starting position his own. Then a bit more JS/1-1 (til Ochi becomes too exp.) then RB to polish them off....

GS wise, whats best for you is best for me... so 1 game at 48mins and sub in game 2... aiming for 60-70mins as I always do.

As posted on the Nippon U21 press blog

Season 15 Ends, Building for the Future

Nippon U21 has officially been eliminated from competition for Season 15, finishing with a 2-6 record. Considering the relative lack of talent on the team this season this is about in line with expectations. We were able to score victories over Hayastan (2-6 record, 80th world ranking) and Singapore (0-8, 78th), and took losses against England (4-4, 63rd), Moldova (5-3, 51st), Azerbaycan (7-1, 40th), Ecuador (5-3, 48th), Czech Republic (7-1, 14th) and Chile(6-2, 19th).

The good news is that things are looking up for next season. We have a solid core of players returning for Season 16 including 4 players (Umari, Matsumura, Omori, Funaki) that started a significant number of games this season. The primary hole we still need to solve is who will be the point guard for next season. None of the returning players has strong Passing or Handling skills. I will work with the owners to see if someone can help us with some development in that area.

We also have very strong depth inside for next season. One season ago we were really struggling to find good inside talent, but we’ve been able to turn that around into an asset.

I still have some questions on who the stand out players will be for season 17. There are a couple of strong players on the way but we need to start focusing on this now so we don’t have to suffer through another season like this last one.

With all this in mind, we will move on to focus on the future now. I am going to release all of the 21 year olds now and will call up a full roster of 18 prospective players for next year’s roster and focus on the development of those players with their owners. I may make changes to the set of 18 players over the off season as other prospects develop. At the end of the offseason I will cut the roster back to around 15 players for season 16.

I would like to end by thanking the owners of the graduating class of players for their contributions to Nippon U21 the past couple seasons.

ありがとございました、
Coach Taiyo