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So, today is the final match of African Championship first phase, the match where we take on the team with the most trophies in Africa - Nigeria. This is surely our main threat in this competition, so I had some special preparations for this match.
Nigeria comes in this match as a country which played good games so far, they achieved five victories and only one loss in these 6 matches they have played so far.
However, Misr NT played excellent competition, the team achieved all six wins in their six matches with huge difference which means that we will surely remain at the first place after this match, even if we lose. Hopefully, this won't happen. This is the game I was looking forward to mostly, when I became an NT manager.
When it comes to previous meetings, Misr and Nigeria have played 21 matches and Misr won only 8 of them. I hope that we will lift this number to 10 or 11 at the end of this season.
After this match, the first 6 teams go into the second round where all the teams meet each other again, and then semifinals and the finals are played.
I will go back to the match itself now.
It is said that local people are very interested in watching this match and it is speculated that the arena we play in won't have enough seats to accommodate all the visitors.
Misr BB Basketball Association thus decided to organize the fan zone in front of the arena.
Additional psychologists were consulted and they are currently with the players, preparing them for the game.
This is why only manager of the team, Tarikz, appeared before the mass media :

"This is surely the most important game of this phase in the championship. The rival is a team which always gives the best to win in such a game. They are in a good shape, loss against Ghana won't impact them badly because they are mentally very strong. I have gathered the best players possible and only the fit and the ready will play today. I promise that we will make spectators even happier after this game."

We conclude that Misr clearly wants the victory here. We are going to find out the truth after 19.00. Come and join me on chat.

We are the best!

I am glad to inform you that Misr achieved another huge victory in the African Championship. The victim was Nigeria, the team who trailed by 34 points today. This match is definite evidence for me that we have no rival in this championship and I assure you that the title comes into Misr. The thing that surprised me the most today is definitely defense - Nigeria scores average of 114 points per match but they only managed to score 68 points today.
Another thing that amazed me today is the fact that we have such a huge width and variety of quality players. El-Ibrahim was not in so good game shape,didn't play for a long time and he grabbed only 4 rebounds and scored miserable 12 points for him. Even though Rahman played his worst game so far, other players made up for him. I won't distinct any individual, all the players gave a massive lift to this victory.

We are looking forward for the next phase of the tournament, 5 games against Senegal, South Africa, Al Jazair, Ghana and Nigeria.

These are the final standings:

1. Misr
2. Ghana
3. Nigeria
4. Al Jazair
5. Senegal
6. South Africa
7. Tounes
8. Al - Maghrib

Continue watching NT, you definitely won't regret!

I am sorry for not writing an introduction for the game against Al Jazair on last Monday, I had some RL difficulties and haven't had much time for BB. Anyway, our guys played one extra-ordinary match, leaving Al Jazair 33 points behind :

(21640)

We are playing against Senegal on Monday. We are definitely going for win in that match, too. After today's training, I have to say that I am very satisfied with training of some players, 2 extremely important pops occurred today. Game Shapes are, generally, similar to those of the last week. We have less players with proficient GS but have more players with strong GS.

This is very important :

I did some research of our players and I saw that majority of NT and U21 NT are going to be put on the TL on Monday. Their teams are going to become botified. This means that, after this Monday, maximum of 8-9 active teams are going to be active in Misr. This is very disappointing, especially if we consider results of Misr's NTs.
Any Egyptian manager who has money and blank training spots may feel free to buy any Egyptian player who is member or potential member of NT. I hope that some managers are going to continue training these guys.
Those guys surely aren't in NT for nothing, their skills are very valuable for me.


I will write introduction of the next game on Monday. I suppose I will have to say something about this situation, too.

Best regards.

So, today is our 2nd match in this competition round, we play against Senegal. Senegal is currently placed in 5th place in the competition, with one win achieved in the previous round. Both Senegal and Misr have played 1 match in this round, Senegal lost to Nigeria in an interesting match. On the other side, Misr played one incredible match against Al Jazair on last Monday, leaving one of the strongest center lines in Africa 33 points behind.
When it comes to Game Shapes, Senegalese managers took care of management and players look extremely well, with GS equaling 8 or 9 mainly. Misr also doesn't have problems with GS, majority of players is fit and ready for the clash.
It's important to say that exactly Senegal played the best match against Misr and lost with the smallest difference.
The game starts at 16.30 due to fact that the time is not changed in America yet.

Come and join us to achieve another victory in championship.


P.S. Huge Sale of Egyptian players in TL, I will write about it here : (192992.82)

I didn't write any summary of last week's game against Senegal, so I thought I'd write it down now :

We were far better than our opponents, we only conceived 59 points in the whole game and this fact sounds really amazing. Defense was really in mood for that game. I have to say that we didn't have luck, two of our best players got injured at the very beginning of the game. The players I talk about are El-Ibrahim and Ibn-Osman, of course. However, we have shown again that we have really huge depth in our team and no one is irreplaceable. Since El-Ibrahim wasn't able to score and rebound, Sulayman Yousef took full responsibility and lead Egyptian team to another victory.
Our ratings were slightly lower than those of last weeks, but we have nothing to regret about.
Here are those ratings :

(21643)

Today, we play against South Africa, a team which played against us in the first game of this competition. We celebrated a victory - 101:65, one more excellent defensive performance of our guys. Since that game, RSA lost their player with the highest salary and I don't know how much will that affect us, he mostly had a GS of 5-6 and wasn't fit for play.
When it comes to game shapes of both teams, RSA has pretty good Game Shapes, the most of their best players have GS proficient. We have lot of players with GS of 8 and 9, the players below that aren't going to be in any combination for the match.
I presented RSA in my first introduction, so I won't be talking about this game much anymore.
I don't want to be rude or to show any disrespect towards RSA or their manager, but I'll say that we are going to win this by 30+ difference.

Join us on chat today at 17.30 !

I have one more important thing to say and it's about the huge sale that took place on TL during last week. We had like 20 players on the TL and no one retired. All of them have found new managers and places to be trained, training plans are made for every single player. Prices they were bought for were huge and this is a good sign for me that NT managers of Misr do and did good job with the team.
Some Egyptian managers didn't hesitate to buy Egyptian talents, 4-5 of them are brought here in the top clubs and their progress is going to be continued with the trainers of the highest quality. That fact makes me proud of this community.

These are the things I wanted to say, I hope I'll write a summary of this fixture immediately after its finish.

Regards


Last edited by Tarikz at 11/5/2012 10:32:19 AM

Great job

Thank you very much, my friend, good luck to you with your NT too.

@Everybody :

We achieved another HUGE victory today, against South Africa. They trailed by 53 in this match and scored only 61 point. Sounds amazing, doesn't it ?
South African players played amazing first quarter, they were leading for the most of the time but they lost it by 1 point. In the second quarter, our players started playing slightly better, we went to halftime pause with +9 on the scoreboard. This was very insecure for me, so I had to tell my players to start play seriously. Luckily, they listened to me and played brutal defense, allowing only 23 points to RSA. Our players were in excellent mood in all aspects, including scoring, rebounding, assisting and defending.
All of our players played an excellent game, I won't state a particular player as the best in this game. Currently, we are on winning streak of 10 games since I was elected as an NT manager. I hope that this streak is going to continue for a long time.

These are the ratings, take a look and enjoy :

(21646)

We are the best !

wow tarikz, you are doing an excellent job my friend :) keep it up, man :D

Last edited by abo hemid at 11/8/2012 1:02:18 AM

Thank you very much, Abo.
I hope these guys are going to get the gold back to Misr.

Hello guys, I have one more after-game report to state.
This time, we faced our biggest rival - Nigeria of course. I definitely dare to say that this difference isn't realistic. The guys in green jerseys played really good throughout the whole game. They were constantly along us, but they trailed every quarter by a small deficit. Luckily for us, the difference accumulated enough to bring the new victory to this team !
I have to admit that I was slightly afraid of this game, especially because of our injured players. I had this Nigerian tactic in mind, knowing how stronger inside we are. If those players played this game, we would achieve much higher win here.
Anyway, I am proud to present you the best ratings in the history of NT :

(21649)

We have just 3 more games to win. Hopefully, we will continue this trend until the end.

We are the best!

Today, we play against Ghana, a team that played an excellent tournament so far. They lost once at the very beginning against us, then against Tounes in one not very important game. Eventually, they lost against to Nigeria, too. Anyway, they have pretty good game shapes, except for their center Mendy and N'Diaye. Our team has very good game shapes and anyone, except for the injured players, Ismail and Arabi, will compete for the place in the roster for the game. We aren't going to feel Arabi's absence so much, as he didn't play any game except the first one when everybody's GS was 7. Unluckily for us, his first injury in the season came in the first week where his GS was 8.
All of these guys are ready for the game but Abu-Mansour told me that he is pretty nervous, though.

If I counted all of our games probably, our semifinal game against Al Jazair/Senegal is going to take place on Friday.

I expect to write summaries of the next two games in special way.