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Dear friends,

I've created a simple google form by which you can submit your player to the NT Norge Player Database. Please follow the link bellow and submit your answers.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHlYQ...
*this link will be also visible to the National Team Advertisement on players that meet the basic criteria.

Note: If you experience skill pop-up during the season please re-fill the form again so every change is recorded.

Last edited by Onisifor at 2/16/2012 10:22:24 AM

My dear friends,

tonight we start the new Euro campaign with an opening match against the neighbor Suomi. It's a match against one extremely strong opponent, world rank 11 and lead by the re-elected NT manager, Iso_Massimo who has excellent record with the team (0.75 winning percentage) in the last couple of seasons. A good manager for sure. We are going to need a bag of luck tonight and hopefully we can draw a positive result.

Our lineup and tactics for the premiere game will be:

LI, m2m
PG: Egon Olesen (8) / Godtfred Thomassen (7) / Amir Lidal (8)
SG: Stian Alm (9) / Håvard Vartdal (8) / Amir Lidal (8)
SF: Åge Guttormsen (7) / Karl Einar Hopedal (8) / Amir Lidal (8)
PF: Svein Hausken (8) / Karsten Johansen (8) / Geir Clausen (7)
C: Stefan Tillbrant (8) / Aanen Lian (7) / Geir Clausen (7)

My prediction for Suomi's lineup is

Motion/Princeton, m2m ----------- around 70% chance
PG Yrjö Tulppala (7) / Ralf Metsävaara (7)
SG: Eelis Koivumäki (8) / Antti-Ville Niiles (7)
SF: Antti Happonen (8) / Jarkko Vaahteroja (8)
PF: Niko Häikiö (7) / Anssi Roivainen (8)
C: Jarno Merikangas (8) / Aki Pasanen (7)

LI, m2m ------------------------------ around 30% chance
PG: Pertti Sirkeinen (8) / Ralf Metsävaara (7)
SG: Yrjö Tulppala (7) / Eelis Koivumäki (8)
SF: Jari Löf (8) / Antti Happonen (8)
PF: Jarno Merikangas (8) / Anssi Roivainen (8)
C: Aki Pasanen (7) / Niko Häikiö (7)

both options are quite strong, though

Let's start Norge!

Too bad we lost, but i just want to say that I am very pleased with the job you've done so far.
Keep it up and I'm sure we can get some good results and not a lot of thumbs down for you:)

Sure I hope we can progress. Current table:

No	Team		 W	 L	 PD	 %
1	Italia		1	0	+22	1.000
2	Belgium		1	0	+22	1.000
3	Suomi		1	0	+18	1.000
4	România		1	0	+1	1.000
5	Azərbaycan	0	1	-1	0.000
6	Norge		0	1	-18	0.000
7	Nederland	0	1	-22	0.000
8	Cyprus		0	1	-22	0.000

There were no surprises after the 1st Week of Euro Season 19.
Azərbaycan nearly shocked Romania, but were unlucky in the end (losing the game with a pair of FT's in the last second of the match).

No fireworks tonight for Norge NT as we were easily beaten by the BB powerhouse NT Suomi. We only won the 2nd quarter, but it was irrelevant after the disastrous first 12 minutes. We were ridiculously outrebounded and couldn't prevent their frontcourt stars from scoring; major factors of the defeat.

Tonight was a debut NT match for Svein Hausken who led the team with 24 pts. Per aspera ad astra Mr.Hausken.
Well, to reach the stars we must focus on training and minute management in the following weeks. Some of the owners of current/potential NT's may receive a training demand from me via BB-mail and please consider that option.

btw, there are a couple of nice Norwegian MVP's on the TL so you might want to check them out.

Last edited by Onisifor at 2/20/2012 4:31:28 PM

Good first effort and good estimate of Suomis tactics. I guess if he'd went for your 70% estimate we might even have won it. Should be a close one next week too, but certainly should have a shot against Belgium. Keep it up!

I hope for a good result next week also.

@ all current owners of NT players: We have to a better job regarding weekly minute (GS) management. Use Josef Ka's post about Game shape as a reference: (160760.2)

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For those managers that are having problem with minute management because of high stamina one suggestion is to acquire a doctor with massage specialty and the other suggestion is the usage of the common 2 game per week lineups as when training single position ---> 48 minutes in the first match (playing the target player as starter, backup and reserve, with 9 players in total selected for the game; let them play with foul trouble + strictly follow depth chart in the substitute pattern) + 10-16 minutes in the second (final match of a given week; filed the player as backup and reserve).

Last edited by Onisifor at 2/22/2012 12:53:50 AM

Belgium NT is next guys and soon I will post (as edit to this post) my pre-match analysis very similar to what I've done for the match against Suomi NT (30761.185). I will post the probable Belgium lineup + tactics as well as our counter lineup + tactics. I hope to estimate right this time :)

Our Tactic and Lineup
I called Daniel Hansen for today's match. His GS 9 together with the high GS of our guards is good opportunity to hit Belgium NT with an outside attack.

PG: Egon Olesen / Stian Alm
SG: Håvard Vartdal / Godtfred Thomassen
SF: Daniel Hansen / Amir Lidal
PF: Karl Einar Hopedal / Svein Hausken
C: Karsten Johansen / Geir Clausen

Belgium NT lineup and tactic prediction
Belgium NT has equal quality to attack us both outside and inside, but in my estimation they will try to go with LI.
Possible lineups are:

LI, m2m
Gérald Thys (9) / Simon Waelput (8)
Tijl Deseure (9) / Charles-Victor Verelst (9)
Mees Freire (9) / Kobus Vercaigne (7)
Ivan Hemerijckx (8) / Cosimo Gallagher (8)
Gerry Fleeton (9) / Sven Marchoul (8)

Princeton/Motion, m2m
Gérald Thys (9) / Kobus Vercaigne (7)
Simon Waelput (8) / Charles-Victor Verelst (9) *
Tijl Deseure (9) / Charles-Victor Verelst (9) *
Ivan Hemerijckx (8) / Mees Freire (9)
Gerry Fleeton (9) / Cosimo Gallagher (8)

*there is a possibility they call Alexander De Piano (9438894) who is in GS 8.

Last edited by Onisifor at 2/27/2012 7:34:23 AM

Fine victory today against Rumenia. Great work! Now some rest against Italy before winning the last 3? :-)

Thanks Borislav. It was a nice win indeed. Btw, congratulations on your purchase of Mr.Alm. You've got a real champion there. Be a good owner :)

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@ALL: Today against Romania we've got the first win in the Euro campaign and the chosen tactic was LI (again) but this time there were some tweaks in it. The LI was logical choice since their best C Ovidiu Popescu had GS 7, their second best C Adrian Croitoru was unavailable due to the recent injury, and also both Florin Mocanu and Puiu Dragomir were in GS 7 as well.

This match was an obvious example how higher GS can overcome the deficit in certain skills. That doesn't mean we should start training GS instead :) I strongly support the skill training and my advice would be keep doing it! The Game Shape can be easily maintained through careful weekly minute management. Keeping them between 48-70 minutes will do the job just fine.

Next Monday we face the group favorites: Italy NT. The difference in the quality and depth of rosters is obvious, but that doesn't necessarily mean we will enter in the game with a white flag; though it's not the most important match of the season.

Roster
There are still 5 spaces available in the Norge NT roster. Please continue to update the (rudimentary) player's database: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHlYQ....

Marvelous rating IS last game, nice!

It's just marvelous (low) :P
Let's try to replicate that against Azərbaycan and set the course for season saving final win against Holland.