2024-01-24
Hi everyone,
the first task of the season was to share your thought process on building the team for this season. DanTitan had a detailed walk-through, so sit tight and enjoy!
DanTitan WL4.7 - 1.000 credits.
And another season arrives. At Xerez we are very happy and have high hopes on this year team. Most of the players are the ones that you already know from last year, but with the extra bit called experience. The whole board have done some excellent signings that will make our team shine and with expectations to go back to WL3. The economy is going to be really tight so we ask all our supporters to join us at our local stadium and keep the complete sell out of tickets as you did on last season, we need your chanting and cheers more then ever!
And as usual, we will make the team presentation. But before that we need to thank the players that unfortunately have left the team: Russian Conoyxnh, Venezuelan Guayanesa and Spanish Clavell. We thank them for their great job and wish them the best of luck. Also we would like to thank Katajisto, our Finnish player on loan last year as he made many points and would be difficult to be replaced.
These will be your team this year!
1 - Spanish new signing Caballería and Moguesen will be our Playmakers, they have a solid offence and different way of attacking, depending on our situation. Caballería came from our friend's team Rarz, and previously played at Artica Slayers.
2 - On this position we have Fitzherbert, new signing from Cai Becerril and last year rookie Samaran. Becerril is a 204 cm, Spanish player with a very good skillset and will add some extra power to the team. Samaranton will be lended to the same team as last year as he express, around day 8.
3 - Babacar and star kid Almeida are the "killers" and we hope that they provide most the points on our team. As last year, they dominated in and out and hope that they can repeat it again.
4 - Pammu is our main man, he has made a great impact and as the perfect example and guide for our younglings. This year he will be together with Vidanes, our Spanish leader, that will be playing on both inner position, specially when our new player on loan arrives next week...
5 - Cucalon made us an offer we could not reject, he is an absolute beast and will help us to secure many victories... and his name is Diouf, a powerful Center that will fight alongside Kong. And speaking about Kong, he has worked really hard and will be a great asset for the team, also his experience has made him a great player.
The coaching team will be the same. Head Coach Huertas has prepared the season and is constantly informed of the opponents and our own players with his great team behind him.
And of course, the GM Martinez is always ready to help the team.
Best of luck Xerez and lets go back to WL3!
dwyane3 - WL 2.2
I had a big headache during the last season's restricted market - extend my main PG or not. In general, PGs are rather cheap and not really valued in the market.
The story for Kuai Chan is rather standard one - classic point guard coming in rather cheap from the drafts with a two year contract. My initial plan was to draft him, keep for two seasons and let him go.
However, what is outstanding is his super high 440+ RT that is coming from 3 key skills at 13 and 4 more important skills at 12 (8 13 5 1 9 1 5 12 12 12 13 13 12). That is not a player that anyone could develop after scouting him out. On the other hand, the player is injury-prone and he can't score consistently and I was not able to trade him away for a good offer on his second season where he was averaging 4ppg and 6 eff.
Is this performance worth paying him eye-whopping 37k per week?
Initially, I thought no way. However, my whole team is getting closer to 30 year old and is peaking. Also, I should be able to get his jumping and mid-range scoring ability to go up to 10 over the seasons as he still has a little bit of space for improvement. Will he be able to score in bunches then? No, bet if he adds a solid jump-shot, he may be able to get scoring numbers up and be a more complete player.
The beginning of the season has been strong for both Kuai Chan and the team. He is scoring 5.5 points per game, dishes out almost 6 assists per game and steals the ball twice. The efficiency has doubled up to 12 and his +/- is second best in the team at +15.
The expected balance at the end of the season is looking kinda crazy at -584.000 Eur, however, we'll find a way to make more money in the TOP16. :)
Do you want to earn some credits as well? Send your best memory of BasketPulse to @dwyane3 and the best stories will be featured and rewarded up to 2.000 credits!
Good luck!
the first task of the season was to share your thought process on building the team for this season. DanTitan had a detailed walk-through, so sit tight and enjoy!
DanTitan WL4.7 - 1.000 credits.And another season arrives. At Xerez we are very happy and have high hopes on this year team. Most of the players are the ones that you already know from last year, but with the extra bit called experience. The whole board have done some excellent signings that will make our team shine and with expectations to go back to WL3. The economy is going to be really tight so we ask all our supporters to join us at our local stadium and keep the complete sell out of tickets as you did on last season, we need your chanting and cheers more then ever!
And as usual, we will make the team presentation. But before that we need to thank the players that unfortunately have left the team: Russian Conoyxnh, Venezuelan Guayanesa and Spanish Clavell. We thank them for their great job and wish them the best of luck. Also we would like to thank Katajisto, our Finnish player on loan last year as he made many points and would be difficult to be replaced.
These will be your team this year!
1 - Spanish new signing Caballería and Moguesen will be our Playmakers, they have a solid offence and different way of attacking, depending on our situation. Caballería came from our friend's team Rarz, and previously played at Artica Slayers.
2 - On this position we have Fitzherbert, new signing from Cai Becerril and last year rookie Samaran. Becerril is a 204 cm, Spanish player with a very good skillset and will add some extra power to the team. Samaranton will be lended to the same team as last year as he express, around day 8.
3 - Babacar and star kid Almeida are the "killers" and we hope that they provide most the points on our team. As last year, they dominated in and out and hope that they can repeat it again.
4 - Pammu is our main man, he has made a great impact and as the perfect example and guide for our younglings. This year he will be together with Vidanes, our Spanish leader, that will be playing on both inner position, specially when our new player on loan arrives next week...
5 - Cucalon made us an offer we could not reject, he is an absolute beast and will help us to secure many victories... and his name is Diouf, a powerful Center that will fight alongside Kong. And speaking about Kong, he has worked really hard and will be a great asset for the team, also his experience has made him a great player.
The coaching team will be the same. Head Coach Huertas has prepared the season and is constantly informed of the opponents and our own players with his great team behind him.
And of course, the GM Martinez is always ready to help the team.
Best of luck Xerez and lets go back to WL3!
dwyane3 - WL 2.2I had a big headache during the last season's restricted market - extend my main PG or not. In general, PGs are rather cheap and not really valued in the market.
The story for Kuai Chan is rather standard one - classic point guard coming in rather cheap from the drafts with a two year contract. My initial plan was to draft him, keep for two seasons and let him go.
However, what is outstanding is his super high 440+ RT that is coming from 3 key skills at 13 and 4 more important skills at 12 (8 13 5 1 9 1 5 12 12 12 13 13 12). That is not a player that anyone could develop after scouting him out. On the other hand, the player is injury-prone and he can't score consistently and I was not able to trade him away for a good offer on his second season where he was averaging 4ppg and 6 eff.
Is this performance worth paying him eye-whopping 37k per week?
Initially, I thought no way. However, my whole team is getting closer to 30 year old and is peaking. Also, I should be able to get his jumping and mid-range scoring ability to go up to 10 over the seasons as he still has a little bit of space for improvement. Will he be able to score in bunches then? No, bet if he adds a solid jump-shot, he may be able to get scoring numbers up and be a more complete player.
The beginning of the season has been strong for both Kuai Chan and the team. He is scoring 5.5 points per game, dishes out almost 6 assists per game and steals the ball twice. The efficiency has doubled up to 12 and his +/- is second best in the team at +15.
The expected balance at the end of the season is looking kinda crazy at -584.000 Eur, however, we'll find a way to make more money in the TOP16. :)
Do you want to earn some credits as well? Send your best memory of BasketPulse to @dwyane3 and the best stories will be featured and rewarded up to 2.000 credits!
Good luck!
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