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I guess he means in real life a sports agent markets his client to get them better deals. So by this guy marketing players as being NT worthy he is acting as their agent.

Last edited by aussie dude at 1/27/2021 5:20:24 AM

All good mate, never assumed you guys did. He’s probably just a Good Samaritan helping out where he can. Or he’s auditioning for a NT managers role and laying some ground work with some scouting. Who knows. Either way, it’s a free world, so I don’t mind if anyone sends me tips or advice, however on this occasion I’m going to politely disagree with him. Good luck for the rest of the season. Shout out if you ever want a scrimmage. We could make it like an Anzac thing. Or a Chappell Hadlee thing.

It's getting down to crunch time now.
A solid win this weekend has us back in the top-32 and playoff contention and with two games to go it is now ours to lose, but realistically with it being so tight we need to win both of these games. If you have a player in the squad or a player knocking on the door of the squad I really have to stress - GAME SHAPE! Some regular guys have been a little up and down over the last month but we have a little bit of depth there so to give us the best chance in these two games I'll be looking for a line up of guys in the best possible shape.

We have Indonesia this coming week - they are a team that has to be respected and have shown in the past they can pop up for big games and surprise higher ranked sides. Following that we have Austria - also no pushover.
At this stage I think we are the second ranked Asian side in the Consolation Cup, behind Philippines, so if we can hold on for a spot in the playoff bracket we're a good chance of earning hosting rights for next season's Asian Cup. Let's make this happen team!

You’ve been talking about avoiding a clash with your old team for ages, but there’s every chance it could happen. And your form line says that clash is going to be tough for us! You’re doing a great job with that program, mate.

The Aussie side fought off a typically determined Indonesia last night to pick up a 17-point win. The final margin, 80-63, doesn't really reflect how tight the game was, with Indonesia leading for about half of the very defensive contest until a white hot final minute from Hongjing cracked the game wide open.
Omu came to play on the night as well and looked on track for a best on court until the angry pills kicked in and he found himself fouled out.
Votes for the game go to Hongjing (20 points, 3 boards, 5 assists and one of the few starters to shoot well), Omu for a tough double double in a game where just about everyone else was getting beaten up on the boards and then there's a toss up between Sage (very solid defensively, shot like he had a broken arm) Grunter (shot a little better, but was beaten up on when it came to the boards) and Matusskiewicz (came off the bench to play some really handy minutes at PG and shot the ball really well). Happy to take further advice on who of those three the community think stood out.


It was a big win for the Aussies, it takes us to 4-3 and sitting inside the playoff bracket (still waiting on updates from the remainder of last night's games).
We now face Austria in the last of our seeding games, who off a loss in the early hours of this morning sit at 5-2. If we beat them we'll go past them on Points Difference and we should secure ourselves a competitive ranking in the elimination stage of the Consolation Cup. A loss, however, will likely see us slide out of the top-32 unless a whole bunch of results go our way.
Which is why it is essential that our managers do whatever they can to get their player in the best game shape possible for the coming week. Let's try and get an entire squad in strong or better to give us some options.

The game time might be appalling, but we've got a cracking game ahead of us in the early hours of Tuesday morning. If you're a Victorian enduring your third lockdown do yourself a favour, crack a breakfast beer and tune in for what will be effectively the first of our knock out rounds of this tournament when we take on Austria.
The Austrians have had a great run so far and currently sit one game clear of us on the standings but where there is a will there's a way. A win here will see us slide past Austria, even though both countries would likely make the playoffs, but it would certainly give us a better ranking and theoretically a better match up.
A loss would make it tough, however.
This game could throw up anything (breakfast beers will do that to ya) so settle in, buckle up and hope the GE and refreshed match viewer don't produce too many gremlins!

It was a tight game as expected and after about a thousand last minute changes of game plan and line ups we managed to overcome a solid Austrian side by 10 points in our final seeding match of the Consolation Cup. That will sees us qualify for the Knock Out bracket of the competition with a 5-3 record (after starting 0-2 due to playing through the repechage) and lifted us above Austria.
At the time of writing this we're still waiting on confirmation of the final standings, but we are likely to finish somewhere between 28th and 25th pending other results.
It is sudden death from here on but our first objective has been achieved. It is only the ninth time in 50 seasons that the Aussies have made the playoff bracket of the Cup (though keep in mind we've also made the World Cup a few times, thus avoiding the Consolation Cup altogether).
More often than not we haven't made it through the first round of knock outs - which is why game shape this week is MASSIVE for us.
If you have a player in contention for a game get his minutes as close to 60 as you can or strongly consider doing some GS training for a week if you need to. Let's see how far we can take this charge. At our best we're a very decent unit. Let's do this!