2024-02-29
Article par: dwyane3
Hello everyone,
we would like to share two more really cool interviews with our community members from Taiwan and Poland.
We start off with im511013 interview of the Taiwanese team Whisky Foreign Studies College, whose team manager is VanthonyDash.
When did you first encounter BasketPulse, and how did you discover it?
About 2 years ago, I actually saw this game on Bahamut, but at that time, I didn't understand it, and I wasn't accustomed to a game without a mobile app. Therefore, I didn't officially dive into it. Later on, I became weary of the pressure of leveling up in mobile games and didn't have much time to spend on my phone after entering the workforce, so I returned to this game.
Judging from your team name, you seem to be knowledgeable about liquor. Do you have any recommended drinks? How often do you usually drink?
Always suggesting "Auchentoshan 12 YO", at this price point, I think it's the best. It has the richest flavor layers without interfering with each other. Personally, I don't like the taste of peat, so my preference may differ from most people's. I used to drink it every day a long time ago, but now I only drink it once a month. Getting older, I can only reminisce about the madness of the past.
Do you also watch basketball leagues such as the NBA?
A celtics fan for 10 years, I started watching since Isaiah Thomas' time. Although I didn't experience the time of Celtics' big three (aka GAP), watching Brad Stevens, who led us to the playoffs every year, all the way to becoming the team's general manager now, and Isaiah Thomas leading the team to the playoffs, the excitement has never ceased. Well, I've said too much, all tears.
BasketPulse offers various features; which one interests you the most?
In the previous question, I'm actually a fan of Brad Stevens. Mainly because I can utilize a group of young players in my hands to form a powerful team that makes the playoffs every year. So I really like the tactical system that allows me to adjust playing time, player positions, etc., giving me more opportunities to achieve the results I want in this regard. It's just that if I could still adjust player USG% that would be better.
Among the trades you've made before, which one are you most satisfied with?
In the first season of this team, about 10 days after its creation, I drew an 8P Wu Kunhao, but his salary was too high and I couldn't trade him. I held on until the second season and then traded for Kiran and Chen Tianlong. Both of them have been the backbone of my team ever since. Thanks to the Taipei National Team at that time.
As a player who has recently advanced to WL5, do you have any advice or insights for new players in WL6?
Finance, finance, still finance. Always maintain your salary health and don't let yourself be tied down by multi-year contracts. Also, make good use of statistical data to find suitable players or your weaknesses. Calculate how much money you need to spend to fill that gap. Don't blindly pursue RT (real-time). Finally, make good use of the positional advantages of players in tactics.
Do you have any tips for consistently drawing high-potential players in the past two seasons?
I absolutely won't admit it, but I believe in some small tricks and the flow of unconsciousness. Don't pray to your phone or computer for what you want to draw; it will give you the opposite result. I'm serious about this!
What are your expectations or plans for the future of your team?
Please don't go bankrupt in the short term. In the long term, I hope I can make it to the WL4 and develop my youth team well, at least producing a member of the national youth team.
Do you have any suggestions for BasketPulse at the moment?
As someone who loves to try different tactics, I hope the tactical configuration can be more detailed. For example, as mentioned earlier,USG%, adding more player playing types such as high position transmission, hand-to-hand passing, double screen and roll, elevator door, etc.
As the U21 tournaments are approaching, DanTitan put in titanous effort and interviewed most of the U21 coaches. We would like to share an interview with Slovenia U21 coach jopencjusz.
- How difficult has it been to decide your squad this year?
It was not as hard as rosters last season, since right now we have quite similar engine to what we had last season. I might not be a big fan of what happened last season, that after few season of changes going more towards giving bigger role to the shooters from outside, now once again we reversed towards "dominating" bigs playing inside, but it is what it is.
- Could you tell us the criteria to select the players? Do you ask for their skills in advance to their players owners?
It depends, when I see there's a lot of players available for National Team, that are very close to each other in strenght, then I'm going to ask owners for skills of said players. I did it many times as head coach of different national teams of Poland, but when I see big gaps between players, I'm just going with my "instinct" and judge them only by their stats in said season during selection.
- Has any of your selected players surprised you and who is he?
There're for sure few players who surprised me, both in positive and negative way. For sure pleasant surprise are Hladnik and Odlazek, both very young players (18-yo and 17-yo) and they look right now better than some older players with way higher RT, due to their more focused training plan. Mostly disappointed I'm with PGs I've selected, there were not many options to do something different here, but two of them are unplayable (at least in my opinion) and it will be very hard to make them decent players.
- The U21 is the last step for the youngsters to shine and hopefully most of them will make it to the World Cup National Selection. How many do you think that will make it from your team?
It's the last step for them for sure, but also from my experience with many different national teams, I could say it could go in very different directions. I saw players perform great at U21 NT, that were never even close to get spot in Senior NT, while their partners, that were only role players, could break into Senior NT. I'm not exactly familiar with the strength of Senior National Team of Slovenia, but I think at least 4-5 guys should get their chance in future in Senior NT and I'm not counting here Hladnik and Odlazek, since they will still have chance to prove their worth in future in U21.
-Regarding this year, how do you see your squad? What are the possibilities for this WC?
We have quite tough group at the start, with 3 teams from TOP8 of the rankings right now (Poland, Italy and China), so we want to put good fight in first group phase and play for the top place in group at LAST12 round, since I can't imagine actually beating any of this top3 teams in first round. I think 13/14 place is possible for us.
- And finally, could you predict the top 3 and the biggest "grower/revelation" country.
I could try at least. Lithuania and China for sure will play for medals, so at 99% they will be in TOP3. For sure also Taiwan has strong case to be there, but I could imagine someone else getting here (I wish it could be Poland :) ). As for revelation, maybe I'll go with Malta. I know they might not look strong on paper, but I know very well it's head coach and I know he can surprise their opponents and do something big with less resources, so that's where I'm going to put my vote.
You may find the whole collection of the interviews with U21 coaches here.
I hope you have time reading these interviews and getting to know the community members better. Do you want to earn up to 2.000 credits yourself? Write at least 250 words post about an upgrade that you want to see in BP the most and send it to @dwyane3. The best articles will be shared with the whole community.
Have a good read!
we would like to share two more really cool interviews with our community members from Taiwan and Poland.
We start off with im511013 interview of the Taiwanese team Whisky Foreign Studies College, whose team manager is VanthonyDash.
When did you first encounter BasketPulse, and how did you discover it?
About 2 years ago, I actually saw this game on Bahamut, but at that time, I didn't understand it, and I wasn't accustomed to a game without a mobile app. Therefore, I didn't officially dive into it. Later on, I became weary of the pressure of leveling up in mobile games and didn't have much time to spend on my phone after entering the workforce, so I returned to this game.
Judging from your team name, you seem to be knowledgeable about liquor. Do you have any recommended drinks? How often do you usually drink?
Always suggesting "Auchentoshan 12 YO", at this price point, I think it's the best. It has the richest flavor layers without interfering with each other. Personally, I don't like the taste of peat, so my preference may differ from most people's. I used to drink it every day a long time ago, but now I only drink it once a month. Getting older, I can only reminisce about the madness of the past.
Do you also watch basketball leagues such as the NBA?
A celtics fan for 10 years, I started watching since Isaiah Thomas' time. Although I didn't experience the time of Celtics' big three (aka GAP), watching Brad Stevens, who led us to the playoffs every year, all the way to becoming the team's general manager now, and Isaiah Thomas leading the team to the playoffs, the excitement has never ceased. Well, I've said too much, all tears.
BasketPulse offers various features; which one interests you the most?
In the previous question, I'm actually a fan of Brad Stevens. Mainly because I can utilize a group of young players in my hands to form a powerful team that makes the playoffs every year. So I really like the tactical system that allows me to adjust playing time, player positions, etc., giving me more opportunities to achieve the results I want in this regard. It's just that if I could still adjust player USG% that would be better.
Among the trades you've made before, which one are you most satisfied with?
In the first season of this team, about 10 days after its creation, I drew an 8P Wu Kunhao, but his salary was too high and I couldn't trade him. I held on until the second season and then traded for Kiran and Chen Tianlong. Both of them have been the backbone of my team ever since. Thanks to the Taipei National Team at that time.
As a player who has recently advanced to WL5, do you have any advice or insights for new players in WL6?
Finance, finance, still finance. Always maintain your salary health and don't let yourself be tied down by multi-year contracts. Also, make good use of statistical data to find suitable players or your weaknesses. Calculate how much money you need to spend to fill that gap. Don't blindly pursue RT (real-time). Finally, make good use of the positional advantages of players in tactics.
Do you have any tips for consistently drawing high-potential players in the past two seasons?
I absolutely won't admit it, but I believe in some small tricks and the flow of unconsciousness. Don't pray to your phone or computer for what you want to draw; it will give you the opposite result. I'm serious about this!
What are your expectations or plans for the future of your team?
Please don't go bankrupt in the short term. In the long term, I hope I can make it to the WL4 and develop my youth team well, at least producing a member of the national youth team.
Do you have any suggestions for BasketPulse at the moment?
As someone who loves to try different tactics, I hope the tactical configuration can be more detailed. For example, as mentioned earlier,USG%, adding more player playing types such as high position transmission, hand-to-hand passing, double screen and roll, elevator door, etc.
As the U21 tournaments are approaching, DanTitan put in titanous effort and interviewed most of the U21 coaches. We would like to share an interview with Slovenia U21 coach jopencjusz.
- How difficult has it been to decide your squad this year?
It was not as hard as rosters last season, since right now we have quite similar engine to what we had last season. I might not be a big fan of what happened last season, that after few season of changes going more towards giving bigger role to the shooters from outside, now once again we reversed towards "dominating" bigs playing inside, but it is what it is.
- Could you tell us the criteria to select the players? Do you ask for their skills in advance to their players owners?
It depends, when I see there's a lot of players available for National Team, that are very close to each other in strenght, then I'm going to ask owners for skills of said players. I did it many times as head coach of different national teams of Poland, but when I see big gaps between players, I'm just going with my "instinct" and judge them only by their stats in said season during selection.
- Has any of your selected players surprised you and who is he?
There're for sure few players who surprised me, both in positive and negative way. For sure pleasant surprise are Hladnik and Odlazek, both very young players (18-yo and 17-yo) and they look right now better than some older players with way higher RT, due to their more focused training plan. Mostly disappointed I'm with PGs I've selected, there were not many options to do something different here, but two of them are unplayable (at least in my opinion) and it will be very hard to make them decent players.
- The U21 is the last step for the youngsters to shine and hopefully most of them will make it to the World Cup National Selection. How many do you think that will make it from your team?
It's the last step for them for sure, but also from my experience with many different national teams, I could say it could go in very different directions. I saw players perform great at U21 NT, that were never even close to get spot in Senior NT, while their partners, that were only role players, could break into Senior NT. I'm not exactly familiar with the strength of Senior National Team of Slovenia, but I think at least 4-5 guys should get their chance in future in Senior NT and I'm not counting here Hladnik and Odlazek, since they will still have chance to prove their worth in future in U21.
-Regarding this year, how do you see your squad? What are the possibilities for this WC?
We have quite tough group at the start, with 3 teams from TOP8 of the rankings right now (Poland, Italy and China), so we want to put good fight in first group phase and play for the top place in group at LAST12 round, since I can't imagine actually beating any of this top3 teams in first round. I think 13/14 place is possible for us.
- And finally, could you predict the top 3 and the biggest "grower/revelation" country.
I could try at least. Lithuania and China for sure will play for medals, so at 99% they will be in TOP3. For sure also Taiwan has strong case to be there, but I could imagine someone else getting here (I wish it could be Poland :) ). As for revelation, maybe I'll go with Malta. I know they might not look strong on paper, but I know very well it's head coach and I know he can surprise their opponents and do something big with less resources, so that's where I'm going to put my vote.
You may find the whole collection of the interviews with U21 coaches here.
I hope you have time reading these interviews and getting to know the community members better. Do you want to earn up to 2.000 credits yourself? Write at least 250 words post about an upgrade that you want to see in BP the most and send it to @dwyane3. The best articles will be shared with the whole community.
Have a good read!
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