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What was the thinking behind the lineup?

SG, SF,C felt a bit strange.. And PG with 8 GS instead of Åkesten with 9 GS

Russia lost so we now have a very interesting game against a crunch

The thinking behind the line up (long version) ;) :

SG: After deciding that I play LI, I had to choose a guard who can support the offense. My first ideas were Mazzo and Everland. But bith guys have GS 7 and that's too low for starting. So I took Widerström, the player with the highest passing skill of all swedish players. I had something like this in mind: (36284). Against the Netherland, who aren't a weak team, it worked exellent. Yesterday, the first four field goals were all assisted by Widerström. But than... it was like a huge break. -.-
With Widerström as the SG I had to rearrange the defense. So he went inside and as a result, I needed a SF who could run an inside tactic and defend as a SG. Mazzo would be my first choice, but again, GS 7. Everland GS 7. Tunggard was the best choice here.

SF: So Tunggard started as the SF and Mazzo was his back up. The otehr way round would be better.

C: Tjädermo was a result of my defense line up. With Widerström defending the C and Tunggard the SG, I needed a C who could defend as a SF. Sandbom is set as the PF. So Tjädermo, who has the needed skills played as the C and went for the SF. I thought about Öby, but he hasn't the required OD. And he was the right back up for Sandbom (offense).

About the PG: It's right that Akersten has GS 9, but I wanted someone with more passing at the 1. And Akersten isn't the best guy for this.

Looking at the game from yesterday, the difference of enthusiasm hurt us more than I expected. It was around 3 or 4 points. And like you say, the game against Russia will be a do or die match. I'm still pretty p***ed that we lost and fell 15 ranks down. If I see which teams are ahead of us and what kind of schedule they have... it's like day and night. We had to fight through almost every game and other teams could build up their enth. and cruise from win to win -.-

You´ve done a great job with the team. Thanks for the answer. Very interesting to hear your thinking..

This time I think you might have outsmarted yourself.. We should still have a good chance against Russia.

Thanks for all the updates.

Update:

Current situation:
1 - Poland - 948,7
2 - Slowakia - 707,0
3 - Serbia - 699,3
4 - Finland - 634,7
5 - Spain - 562,4
6 - France - 538,7

7 - Czech Republic - 533,2
8 - Belgium - 326,4
9 - Slovenia - 317,8
10 - Ukraine - 293,5
11 - Latvia - 271,1
12 - Switzerland - 265,5

13 - Greece - 251,3
14 - Hungary - 234,2
15 - Sverige - 229,2
16 - Turkey - 227,0
17 - Italy - 226,7
18 - Germany 225,2

19 - Russia - 215,1
20 - Nederlands - 214,8
21 - Belarus - 209,8
22 - Austria - 209,0
23 - Bulgaria - 208,3
24 - Estonia - 196,4

25 - Portugal - 194,7
26 - Israel - 192,1
27 - Bosnia&Hercogovina - 189,6
28 - England - 189,6
29 - Romania - 176,9
30 - Macedonia - 176,5

Standing: 12.04.2016

Yesterdays game was a desaster and the reason was my "do or die" line up.
The situation was clear: if we win, we will play the k.o. games. if we lose we are out. So I played with the highest possible input. The game shape of our players was ideal for LI. That's the good side... Now the bad one. Russia had home court advantage, a higher enthusiasm and also an extremly high game shape. I was pretty sure that they would play LI. But after I read the post from the russian NT today, it's clear why they played Motion. It's their strongest tactic and they tried to hid it as long as possible. The idea was to keep it until the k.o. games but because they were in the same "do or die" situation like us, they played it against us.
With the wrong GDP and a weaker outside game because of the choosen line up, our OD was completly rooted.

I'm pretty disappointed in my decissions from the last games. Other NT coaches already said, that our schedule was everything but easy and it was a big surprise for them that the team could perform on this level. But for me it has little comfort. The two loses cost us 22 pts in the WR and we dropped to teh 20th rank. The five teams with surpassed us are only a few point ahead of us and we can still get them until the end of the season... But still, the outcome is lower than last season.

For the next games, I will try to get as many WR points as possible. Sweden has to rise up to the third group again. With this the european championship could be easier next season.
And if you guys want, I would candidate again as the NT coach.

Your engagement really drives up my own interest for the national team so you've got my vote for NT coach.

Strong performance and engaging write-ups that help me understand the game better.

Very unlucky for the last 2 games, but the performance before that has been flawless, I am happy to vote on you again.

Love the posts, and even if we dont write alot, I am sure we are alot of people reading and looking forward to the NT games and posts.

You got my vote to

Great season! We have won several difficult games, and had some bad luck with the draw.

Hopefully ur team kan keep devloping.

Good job and you definately have my vote!

You will of course be supported for a candidacy. Can't really see how there could be a stronger candidate. I am very happy with the work you have done! Only weakness is that Wedling still has not been playing in the team (I do of course know that he still is too poor for a spot )

Good read. Thanks for the coaching coach. I am all behind you. Your effort has been great. I also like that you wanna revenge yourself and go at it again. Hurrah!

Update:

Current situation:
1 - Poland - 934,6
2 - Slowakia - 700,6
3 - Serbia - 695,6
4 - Spain - 611,3
5 - France - 590,4
6 - Finland - 582,6

7 - Czech Republic - 531,0
8 - Belgium - 327,9
9 - Slovenia - 317,7
10 - Ukraine - 296,5
11 - Latvia - 268,7
12 - Switzerland - 262,8

13 - Greece - 261,1
14 - Hungary - 234,2
15 - Italy - 226,7
16 - Nederlands - 224,6
17 - Germany 225,2
18 - Russia - 218,3

19 - Turkey - 217,8
20 - Sverige - 217,3
21 - Estonia - 209,7
22 - Belarus - 209,4
23 - Israel - 203,1
24 - Bosnia&Hercogovina - 201,8

25 - Bulgaria - 198,1
26 - Austria - 197,6
27 - Portugal - 195,7
28 - England - 189,1
29 - Macedonia - 176,6
30 - Romania - 175,7

Standing: 19.04.2016

Finland is loosing a lot of points and my prediction would be, that The Czech Republic will surpass them and move up to the first group. The second group is pretty solid. They are way behind the first one and still ahead with a proper margin of the third one. But the margin gets smaller and smaller.
The third and fourth group is the main battlefield in Europe currently. There is so much dynamic that one loss can result in dropping by five ranks, and one win gives you a leap up to four or five ranks. Starting with Hungary (14) and going down until Bosnia&Herzogovina (24) it's one huge mess
And we are in the middle of it. Tomorrow we will play against Pakistan. My target is to beat them as high as possible and see how many points we can get. According to the result, I will decide on the remaining games. The most important point is now to get back to the third group and set up an easier draw for the european championship next season.

Last edited by Nachtmahr at 4/24/2016 12:06:59 PM