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Let’s just say they are impressed and I should imagine a little blown away.

82-99 against a crunch

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Greece did not have much enthusiasm remaining, because they played CT against Lithuania as well. But they now have all easy games remaining, so CT was probably a good decision from their perspective

Congrats on te win yesterday, well deserved!

Excellent win. I remember a few seasons ago the Dutch rubbing it in by saying at the end of a game they won: "It was like playing a bot." Wonder what they're saying now.

I need to react on this:) I really wonder to which game you are referring. Because I'm 110% sure I didn't say such things. I'm NT coach for six seasons now and the only time we played against England when I was NT coach was S41. We won that game which was very close. Innes was a pain in the ass for us in that game in one of his last NT games.

I’m pretty sure it’s a significant number of seasons back, and thanks for the congrats, credit to you.

Season 30. I certainly didn't say it was you, but I should have been clearer about how long ago it was. It sticks in my mind because it was my final game as NT manager and the season was already a disappointment as two seasons before we had been to the semi final.

Israel 77 - 75 England

Frankly i'm gutted by this, we were so close. We had to save enth to have a shot at the next few games and were badly let down again by the gameshape gremlin that has stalked us since the beginning of the season. Grierson's manager has gone awol and so we are likely to lose him until he goes up for sale. Carter struggled for shape this week, losing our second starter from the lineup and a number of others including Ellis who has been injured and Bradley who is poor shape again.

This was a close close game. All square going into the final Q and we looked like we could pip it.

We still can win our remaining games and make a run at this one. I'll work with the players I get, but can only plead with managers to try and get them into half decent shape.

England 92 - 79 Romania

A solid performance from a slightly under shape team. But given we were on the road today we can be proud of a good showing. Galloway again showed his quality with a man of the match performance, Grierson was a risk, but worth it, given his lower shape but good quality and I was grateful to see him hold up against a strong set of PF's. All in all we come away with a win and with two tough games to play we are in a good position to give it our best shot. We really need the gameshape next week as the Ukraine are very strong. I hope to make it close, but really we are strong underdogs for that one. The last game away to the czech's will be another very hard game to handle.

Roll on the next game!! Well done all who got their players into good shape this week!!

Seems I've gone quiet again since Gully built up the Greece win (quickly followed by LaurynasZ bursting that bubble again :D )

England u21 48-78 Poland u21
A double correct prediction but not the game I'd want it in...I chose to save enth. for upcoming battles instead. Taylor and Thomas aren't identical players so Taylor injured after 5 mins was unfortunate, I can't say how much better we might have done, but likely not too much, we couldn't get anything going offensively (look at all those steals/blocks for the opposition). Shame I didn't get to see how my original gameplan would've played out though. Poland are impressive.
MVPs are tough, especially with a zone defence so you can't give individual credit on that basis. By a process of elimination, the two worst of the big minute guys were Flanagan and Allen so..
3: Thomas. 2: Cummins. 1: Athur

The big one: Lietuva u21 70-88 England u21
A crunch against a TIE, this time with more effort being used on our side. It looks like that makes up for 825 managers on their side, and 159 on ours.
Tough first quarter and we were still losing at HT but in the 2nd half pulled away and it was fairly comfortable in the end.
Nice even offensive from our top 4 guys. Athur missed some FTs but was the most efficient offensively and grabbed a lot of important rebounds, Cummins had the most defensive counting stats and Allen hit two 3s which are always a bonus from a big.
3 points to Arthur, 2 Cummins, 1 Allen.

In the other big game last Monday we had Poland beat Estonia by just a point! It was the same situation as us vs. Lith, where the underdog (Estonia) crunched after saving enth. in previous rounds. Shame they didn't win, as if they did we'd have all 4 teams on 6-1 records and the two winners from today's round of game would qualify which would've been lots of fun.
As it is, Poland are all but guaranteed to be in based on their PD advantage, but any of the other 3 can still get in. I think we're the underdog again (based on GS mostly, I'd say we'd stack up OK at 4 positions at least otherwise), but there's a chance we qualify for the next round which'd be pretty huge. Shame Bartolo/Flanagan haven't been in better GS this season as they're very good players for their age, same for a couple of others this week. I'd say it's been a good season whichever way this goes though?
6pm our time! I may or may not be online though as it's the girlfriend's birthday...

If anyone wants to message me about their 19-20 year olds it's a good time as we need to start looking at next year's team.

Ukraine 74 - 88 England

Enth saved
Took them to GT

Drops the mic

Game ongoing but I’m not optimistic.

We’ve gone into this game with none of our inside men in good shape and only 3 in ok shape.

I hope our gameshape gremlins change going into the next phase as it matters so much more now.