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just bad luck !

I wouldn't bench him for it. you can be certain the 7 will be very close to 8, so there no reason to let a lesser player play which has GS8.
Also, when the other player has 9, he should be a lot less good either, it's likely there's only 1,2 levels diffrence between a 9 and Otto, which in the end, isn't THAT high, unless both players are equally good in skills.

i can't believe my eyes!

first off, we defended like a bot today! we allowed 96 points from a team who's top player is near 60k. we had 3x the salary on each position. It's ashaming! But atleast we made 146 points and got a good point average out of it.

with the very surprizing defeats of Russia ( by the hands of Sakartvelo no less!) and of the roumains ( by the hands of the Netherlands) we got 5 teams with 2 wins and 2 losses, of which the Belgiums have the best goal average. But Both Belgium and Netherlands still need to face eachother and need to face the czechs, and knowing that the Netherlands are facing the Czechs last, that means that our calender remains the toughest one.

anyone with a 5-2 record now will get the 2nd ticket to the european championship. but as it looks now, we might be in for a ending where 4 teams end with a 4-3 record!

Anyhow, the good news is that we got our own qualification in our own hands, and that is the best news we've had so far in this qualifier.

Revo

I guess that the high pace in offense and defense was the biggest problem...
When you play at a fast pace like that, it's logical that the other team also scores a lot!
Since you got 21 steals, which isn't that much on a pressing I guess...
Especially vs a team like Luxembourg!

i was very dissapointed by the score, i won't deny that.Since lux was always playing in a very slow pace, i though we would be able to get a ton of steals early up by pressing them right away... unfortunately, this didn't really work out for us.

They got 18 OR's, which by all means is an insane high number for thier players... At a certain moment, i was wondering if their C's true name wasn't K. Garnett :P

this is the 2nd game with Fleeton in good shape, and once again, he's got monstrous stats.

Last edited by AthrunZala at 8/30/2011 7:40:06 AM

Well the game also has got a certain luck factor...
Maybe they got lucky? + Their HCA would have also helped them!
Lost some games to the fact that I was unlucky myself... So yeah... That would be an explanation...
Let's hope we got the same luck vs the Netherlands?

They didn't have HCA, the game was played at neutral.
All the problem was FCP in defense, because it works very rarely. With M2M Belgium highly probably would have won by higher PD.
As you can see, we scored the same points, but Luxembourg 27 points less than against Belgium. FCP increase FG% of Luxembourg significantly.

Last edited by rwystyrk at 8/30/2011 11:55:34 AM

It depends of point of view whether 27 is adequate, low or high difference. I'm quite sure with M2M Luxembourg would have lost more points than Belgium comparing to FCP.

understandnig a FCP ni this game is rather easy: you either steal the ball before the opponent gets a shot, OR the opponent gets an easy shot (read easier then with any other defense).

So it's quite normal that any attempt they tried, had higher chance of going in...

so far for the "defending like a bot" that Revo talked about.

FCP can work in this game, but play it against the wrong opponent, or with the wrong team, it can be devastating.

I have won many games using FCP, while I saw it work like a kiler machine. I also had 1 terrible loss, and it might very well have been against Joe, or Sum, but I'm not sure any more...

I guess there's also some in-betweens. But I didn't have them yet. I recall making the choice only versus teams where I was confident it would work (and it did) and use it once as a desperate act of madness, in a game I didn't expect I could win, and then made the defeat worse by picking this desperate action, knowing beforehand it wasn't likely to work, but didn't know anything else to play either.

god, another week with GS 7 for Otto.

i'm going to make him play to much. make him go down in GS, and then get him back up again... cause he just won't go up, no matter what i do. Aslong as he's Gs 7, he isn't preforming as he should be. and he's utterly worthless for the NT. It's time he started moving in GS, and i don't see any other option left anymore...