Nippon had never beaten China in their 9 total meetings since Season 6(0-8 in Asias, 0-2 in Scrimmages)...but that all changed today! We felled the beast 103-96 in double overtime. Matsuoka dropped 61 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the way while Inaba also had a double-double of 15 points and 20 rebounds.
I tried to get cheeky and guessed wrong even though my guess had originally been correct before talking with the China U21 manager. We also burned a Crunch Time in this one, but I feel it was worth it and we'll see how the rest of this season goes as we try to make up that difference.
We will next face Malaysia who defeated Iran today.
I once had a team with 1757 players and was $25,835,360 in debt. This is not that team. Join the Discord group open to anyone, but especially for USA managers to improve your club or get involved with the U21 and NT programs
(https://discord.gg/cKpNkt2).