Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-39491274-20190604201820/@comment-39491274-20190605184623

From what I rememeber, Naruto only won because he was lucky enough to get the fox's chakra in time, he would have lost.

And for missions, from what I also remember, when they finished the cat mission, they had two maybe three other missions that they could have gone on but Naruto demended a C-Rank mission, which the Hokage give them. They won't requested for it, but given it to them after Naruto demended one. (Now I could have misunderstood what you said, if so please forget that part :P)

And as a captain, I would have thought they were meant to make sure that the people of the team were up to standerds before going higher levels, to make sure that if problems arises they would be ready for them. So knowing that Naruto had problems with chakra control and taijutsu, I thought he would make sure they were decent enough before going for a high mission. Not saying he had to train them, but to make sure they were read should the worse happen.