After Alen Abaz resignation, Bosna ASA BH Telecom signed a new coach on Monday. The new coach is a well-known name, Vlada Vukoicic, former FMP, Hemofarm, Oestende coach who's made a name for himself by working with young players and achieving great results along with developing those young players. Bosna ASA BH Telecom hopes that Vukoicic can repeat the same kind of success in Sarajevo. Finally, but...they forget that Vukoicic had the best young players in the region when he won the Adriatic league with FMP. Players who've been playing strong games from their early age. Similar thing with Hemofarm. No doubt that Vukoicic is a good coach. It's fortunate for Bosna that he left Oestende after decent achievements with this club. However, new coach cannot fix the reason Abaz left the team last week. Simply because Bosna's 'young' players have been sitting on the bench for 5-6 years before this season. It's hard to expect that players who until this season sat out whole games for several seasons can carry the load in the Adriatic league, let alone win Bosnian championship and Cup. While former Bosna director used to bring several Americans and washed out players from Serbia for the last 4 years Bosna young players have been watching games from the bench or even stands. Since nobody becomes a player by sitting on the bench it's clear that they cannot achieve goals that Bosna has this season. It's simply not fair to Abaz, new coach Vukoicic and players born 1986 and later that Bosna's management wants to go with young team under pressure of winning double title. Trouble is also that Bosna doesn't want to give a chance to 17 or 18-year old players. No, they want to go with 22-year old players while 17 and 18-year old kids can only watch. Their time shall come...in five years or so. Management forgets that Bosna's 'young' players are not so young any more. Emir Zimic (217-C-86) has been sitting on the bench for three years prior to getting seriously injured and missing most of the last two seasons, Amar Suljagic (213-C-88) has only played garbage time for the first team if he was among twelve players at the first place, Muhamed Pasalic (190-PG-87) started getting a serious playing time last season, played well only to see Bosna management bringing two Americans on his position prior to the play-offs. Let's recall that Bosna qualified for the ULEB Cup 1/16-finals with Pasalic as a back up point guard. Who else is considered young player in Bosna? Of course, Bozo Djurasovic who's been 'young' for the last five years. With almost 22 years of age Djurasovic is still waiting to get an opportunity to play more than 5 minutes in a close game. Put aside a fact that he's been loaned to Vogosca in A1 league, but with his height of 199cm he has had to play power forward position although his natural position is clearly at small forward. The only one of those younger players who got almost a serious chance to play is Suad Sehovic (195-G-87) although there have been long stretches when he barely saw any action. Sehovic is a fighter and he has been used by previous Bosna coaches for special defensive assignments, not to score, not to carry the load, but as a role player. Now, he is supposed to be one of the main pillars of new Bosna. So, Bosna management considers young players all those who are 21-23 years of age although they should show their worth by that point. In Bosna, players are young till that treshhold. If they don't deliver after reaching the treshhold they got kicked out because they 'have not been working hard', they 'have not been focused on basketball', at the end 'they've never been gifted enough', etc...Let's get something straight: we're not talking about a young team made of Miro Raduljica, Milan Macvan, Boban Marjanovic, Vladimir Dasic,Mladen Jeremic and other top prospects from Adriatic league teams. We are talking about gifted players who will never achieve their full potential simply because they've been warming Bosna's bench for way too long. They are getting a chance that they should have gotten four-five years ago. Thus, Bosna management is missing on generation. Now is the time for Eldin Camdzic (192-G-90), Aldin Klinac (211-C-90), Aldin Majstoric (198-G-90), Nebojsa Andjelic (200-G-91) and couple other players, but according to Bosna their turn will be in 3 years. Of course, they're too young and they are supposed to spend next two-three years on the sidelines at practice watching their teammates play five on five, not to mention official games. Zimic, Pasalic, Suljagic, Sehovic had to start playing for the first team at age of 17-18, not 21-23. Now, those are players who will become good, but will never be what they could have been. At the same time their counterparts from FMP, Buducnost, Hemofarm have been already playing 3-4 seasons in strong leagues and European Cups. Bosna management has to realize that it has slowed down development process of more than a dozen of very skilled players (i.e. Does anyone recalls 12 extremely gifted players that RIN sent to Bosna 5 years ago? All of them have been sacrificed so that one of them can be sold for big money). Bosna has not paid enough attention to generation '86-'91. Just one example: Zimic has asked his club to provide him a body strengthening plan and program. After waiting for several months, this player has had to pay that 'luxury' out of his own pocket. The management also has to realize that new coach can't bring a title and Cup by himself after they (i.e. management) and coaches with much stronger and expensive teams have lost two BiH championship titles and three Cups in the last four years. Every basketball fan can see that Bosna has no starting point guard and starting center, two pieces you start building any team from. Zimic, Suljagic and Klinac should get more playing time, but none of them is ready to carry the load at center, Pasalic is a very good point guard but started playing too late and he can be a solid backup in a team that wants to win Bosnian championship and Cup. Camdzic is a combo guard who should start getting some playing time and start getting PT now when he is still really young, not young according to Bosna's criterion. By now it's obvious that Djordjevic and Stanley Burrell are not reinforcements Bosna needs. They remind of an army of Serbian and American players brought to Bosna in the last four seasons only to be replaced at the mid-season so that couple people can collect extra profit by taking agents' provisions twice in one season. Ivanovic and Vucurovic are reinforcements that Bosna needs. Winning a title and Cup without bringing players at center and point guard positions will remain only a wish with this roster. If Bosna really wants to give chance to young players there shouldn't be a burden of winning trophies. Otherwise, Bosna shall bring two quality players and then request from players to win championship and Cup. Stories that Bosna has no money hold no water. Only few people from top Bosna management control money flow in the club. Last year there was enough money in the budget to pay four Americans $62,000 every month! Let's remind that Bavcic also had a big contract, Dzenan Rahimic hasn't played for free, Seid Hajric neither. This season Bosna management has admitted that budget is more than 3 million KM although it's more than that. Bosna has been actively seeking center and couple guards whole Summer willing to pay even more than Lance Williams last season. All of a sudden, a couple days before the season started, management has decided not to bring necessary reinforcements at key positions and left (now former) coach Alen Abaz and fans wondering what's going on. So, if Bosna provides more playing time to young players, brings two strong reinforcements, gets rid of Djordjevic and Burell, Bosna has a great chance to accomplish both goals for this season: win domestic titles and develop its younger players. Otherwise, not even an excellent coach like Vukoicic can accomplish such a miracle.