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First scrimmage game of the off season will be against Indonesia. The younger players will play. Francis Jalius (23), Ray Michael (24) and Rafael Salvado (25) are the future of our NT. They will be in the starting 5 with Somboon Thanarat (27) and Peter Joseph (28). On the other hand, Mark Bugak (23) and Isaac Gatut (24) will have a taste of the NT but shouldn't stay with the team next season.

I didn't select Simon Edwin Edin (22), Scott Eames (24) as my team is playing the MBBA finals against Chosen 5 and knowing their skills would be like cheating. I may select one of them after the MBBA finals.

Edit: due to a mediocre GS, Peter Joseph won't be playing this game. Chosen 5's manager have a few players in the NT and have always kept them in good GS but I want to emphasis that GS is crucial. It will be a rule of thumbs with me as manager, no players with a GS below 7 will step foot on the court even for a scrimmage.

Last edited by Nico4nicolas at 9/13/2024 4:43:49 AM

We started the new season against Saudi Arabia, it allowed us to play with the young core and to notice that it won't be enough to be competitive. The win wasn't an easy one. Two players (Charlie Wong and Rafael Salvado) had GS below 7 so we played with a 10-man roster.

For our next game we will face the strong Latvia team. I don't expect much for this next game but if our current players don't have a good enough GS, I will call back the older guys.

Edit: if someone wants me to try something for our next game, we can try out new things.

Last edited by Nico4nicolas at 9/30/2024 2:31:10 PM

It's been a long time since I last wrote something here. I've been very busy in real life but spent time to prepare the NT lineups. One could say I didn't do a good job and I can't argue otherwise.

We lost by 13 against Latvia which is stronger team than yours. It was an expected result, nothing wrong here especially because they put more enthusiasm than us. Then came the most disappointing result of the season so far, we lost against by 2 Scotland after overtime. I don't mean to be disrespectful but we should have won even though they also put more enthusiasm than us. Gladly, we managed to Iran by 26. Today, we lost against Estonia by 16. The last quarter was a killer for us (-11) with only 7 points scored. Our defense was good but we lacked players to put the ball in the basket.

For the 3 remaining games, we will face Luxembourg, South Africa and Armenia. The goal is to collect 3 wins. After a long injury (13 days), Charlie Wong will be back and should help us.