S23 (7/3/13 - 9/6/13)
The season started full of promise but with a problem. After seasons of training guards it was time to move to centers. This was while Shin Shidehara
(24273129) 6'2" PG U21 star & team draft pick was still being trained. So in whatever training for centers the team would have to do they would have 1 of their best players not only not helping but hurting the team by playing out of position.
We had a great draft pick Sasuke Horiuchi
(28983247) but he also didn't fit with the training plans so was sold to Isehara Pistons for $ 371 500.
We then spent an incredible $3,000,000 on a player we were sure would help the team. Maybe we paid too much but what a player.
Rene Põld
(12129848) Small Forward
Weekly salary: $ 74 393
Age: 30
Height: 6'8" / 203 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Jump Shot: stupendous Jump Range: sensational
Outside Def.: tremendous Handling: stupendous
Driving: stupendous Passing: mediocre
Inside Shot: legendary Inside Def.: sensational
Rebounding: respectable Shot Blocking: atrocious
Stamina: average Free Throw: awful
Experience: proficient
11/3/13 - 26/4/13
Adding Põld to the team that went 14-8 last season would surely help right? Well the trouble was the 3 trainees were not up to JBBL standard.
Shin Shidehara
(24273129) Point Guard
Weekly salary: $ 29 731
Age: 22
Height: 6'2" / 188 cm
Potential: superstar
Ichiro Nishimura
(25318371) Center
Weekly salary: $ 20 541
Age: 22
Height: 6'9" / 206 cm
Potential: MVP
Eita Wakatsuki
(21305793) Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 65 559
Age: 24
Height: 6'11" / 211 cm
Potential: MVP
Shin & Ichiro were almost guaranteed losses & Eita was way behind the standard of JBBL big men. It was even worse as this season almost everyone was playing look inside.
1st game was against Fire Country Trail Blazers with Shin Shidehara playing C, a big loss.
2nd game with Eita Wakatsuki training against Yesteam a win.
3rd game was away at Northern Kyushu Ramen Kings who put in more effort while training Eita Wakatsuki a loss.
4th game against Stunners who had a great B3 level team another loss.
Things were going very badly.
To try & save the season $990,000 was spent on top quality big man Argirios Gaitatzidis & there were a bunch of wins.
Argirios Gaitatzidis
(11460783) Power Forward
Weekly salary: $ 225 132
Age: 31
Height: 6'11" / 211 cm
Potential: hall of famer
Played 31/3/13 - 21/4/13.
But another difficulty the NT coach told us that Eita wasn't joining the NT until he improved his passing and outside defence. So things got even worse, now just 1 game a week we had Shin Shidehara a decent player at PG, for the other 2 we had a C playing PG. Many more losses while we did this painful training.
The big event was a cup game away against Kitakyushu. What a draw, we played Swoosh 2 times in a row & then Kitakyushu 2 times in a row. They had home court & played crunch time against us & took the win. Great for them, a disaster for us.
Kyoto Shogun vs. Kitakyushu 95 - 107
(58774585) We decided why pay Gaitatzidis when we are losing anyway so he was sold for $816,600 a nearly $200,000 loss as well as $800,000 lost in salary he was a $1,000,000 disaster. We also sold Rene Põld for $2,700,000 a $300,000 loss.
Somehow despite selling the teams 2 best players we were able to refocus, training became a bit more sensible, the schedule improved and from then on we won 6 of our last 10 games and scraped into the playoffs by PD over our long time rivals and best friends Northern Kyushu Ramen Kings, by beating the National Tournament Champion Mythical Man-Month in the last game of the season.
We also picked up NT legend Hideki Ochi
(11001986) a 31 year old SG/SF for $1,150,000. Overpaid again but it kept us as an all Nippon team for the last few weeks of the seasonwhile actually playing our best.
Last edited by Lord Toranaga at 05/25/2013 20:52:52