just give up for waiting the answer.
my ex-player consider as current highest salary in Malaysia but NT coach did not pick him as NT player.
Allow me to wade into this discussion with my own 2 cents, which is now worth even less now that the price of petrol has gone up. I shall start on the subject quoted above. LA-CS may feel aggrieved that his player never made it as a NT regular even though he had the highest salary among Malaysians. That is perfectly understandable. Now allow me to give you a view point from a fellow MBBA manager.
Now that you have sold Kamarulzaman bin Saleh, I have no conflict of interest in letting the cat out of the bag.
Kamarulzaman, was the weak link in your team. This may come as a shock to a lot of you, at me for calling the highest paid player the weak link, but bear with me now. Kamarulzaman had imbalanced skills, incredibly high HD, DV and PS....but hit OD was average and his JS and JR were laughable.He, was a highly paid player, spoilt. It comes as no secret that my team is willing to pay a lot of money for good Malaysian players, I paid 2.6M for a player whose salary was only 50k. And yet, when Kamarulzaman became available also at 2.6M, I did not bid.
Kamarulzaman spent a LOT of time on the transfer list, which meant everyone knew his skillset, and weaknesses. I, on occasion, abused him weaknesses during our important matchups. Viewers can check back previous matches. I knew he had okay OD, but poor JS and JR. And the moment BB allowed us to change player position on defense, it sounded the death knell to Kamarulzaman's NT chances. How did I take advantage of his lack of JS and JR? I rotated my weakest OD outside player to be paired against Kamarulzaman at PG. My 3rd choice outside player doesn't have high OD, but it is high enough to stop Kamarulzaman from making too many baskets. My 1st and 2nd choice outside players, with higher OD, were rotated against your SG and SF. I know you have high passing, but by locking down your shooters, all the passing isn't going to be effective if you find it hard to make a basket. Now, he is stuck. You can pass to your other shooters being locked down by my players, or you can try shoot a basket with low JS. If he had been trained like a normal PG, he would have shot the living shit out of my sub-standard player. But he couldn't. If I could see this, there is a chance that Ahmoi sees this as well and he probably doesn't want this to happen on the NT stage.
Why was Kamarulzaman's skillset so imbalanced?
I oohed and I aahed and I may have come up with the answer. He wasn't trained to be the best PG available, he was trained for
convenience. Look at his high skills, all of them are trained in 1 position, PG. He never had to be trained out of position, which was convenient because the team never needed to sacrifice playing a trainee out of position. It's a shame really, he could've been the best PG ever in the NT and yet was let down by his poor allocation of skills. If only he had some JS, if only he had better JR.
Now, this is in no way explaining why he isn't in the NT, that is for Ahmoi to explain. But it is why I think he hasn't made NT. Because he is a target for rival managers to exploit and putting an exploitable player with a big salary on the team isn't something I would want to do.
I know this is going to hurt some, but I thought everyone would at least appreciate to hear a honest opinion.
Astagroth,
You might want to PM Ahmoi directly for the answer if he doesn't come in here.