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Start of the 4th Q really had me worried there - down almost 10 pts at one point and I assumed that their outside scoring would continue to scorch us as fatigue set in but woo!

Sweet win!

It was almost the same situation like against Israel. We were also down and came back. But against Israel it was too late and we lost with -3. And this time we could hold our ground and took the win. Two more games and if everything went well, we will reach the KO round.

Nice win last night! Woop woop!

Thanks, yes it was an important win.
Columbia crunshed, like expected, and they fall for the LI trap. Thanks to the partially wrong GDP we could get the win.
Our big 3 made most of the points and got some nice support from the bench. We have still here an there sometimes some problems, but it was the second tight game and we came in both ones as the winner out.

Next week we play agaisnt Egypt. It is almost certain that we will start the KO round with a away game. Against whom, we will see next week.

Sometimes I hate this game...

What happened?

The game against Egypt... They play CT against us and somehow he guessed right, that I will play LI. So we play against a 2-3 zone a full LI GDP -.-

And the lads pulled through once again! If they smell the hint of a W when the 4:th Q begins, they will hunt that W down...

This season is a hell of a ride. Todays game was a drama in three acts. During the first 15 minutes Egypt outplayed us thanks to their high effort and the GDP. They lead with 31:18 and our guys had massive problems.
After that, until the end of q3, our guys started to fight back. They got some important defense stops and scored a little bit more than Egypt. We went with a -7 into q4. And here everything broke down an our guys started playing like they should. After a little bit than 2 minutes the games was at 79:79. Until 90:90 everything was more or less equal and for the last 3:30 minutes our team pushed through it and closed the game with a 16:4 run.

With this win, we reached the next round. Our first KO opponent will be determinated during the next hours.

A small overview:
leading the game against Ecuador: 48 minutes
leading the game against Israel: 16,5 minutes
leading the game against Philippines: 47 minutes
leading the game against Croatia: 5 minutes
leading the game against Ghana: 28 minutes
leading the game against Japan: 14 minutes
leading the game against Columbia: 25 minutes
leading the game against: Egypt: 3,5 minutes... the last 3,5 minutes during the game

From a maximum of 288 minutes, we were only 187 in front of our opponents. And we still managed a 6:2. Either we are really lucky this season or our young guys are ice cold and they like the thrill

Thank you for info. I figured it was that, then again I felt you could win anyway.... :)

And it's Belarus again. Like two seasons ago, we finished again as 24th and it's the same opponent. During the next days I will try to come up with a way to beat them. They have a strong team and thanks to their home court they will be an even more difficult team.