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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.

Best of luck!

Please shoot me a message if I can help with scouting or similar aspects. I am leaving my current job and returning to Europe currently so I have all this free time to my disposal (very strange concept overall)

For 38 minutes, we were in the next round. Until the beginning of the last quarter our team lead the game with up to 10 points. But during the last quarter the home court advantage held the belarussian defense up.
Playing without Tjädermo (transfer) and Birgersson (still on the list, perfect for scouting), a new solution was needed.
Säfen played like always. Fredriksson switched to SF (12-17 FG was a success) and defended the PG. Sunnesson was the opposite part of Fredriksson and had some problems with his still stronger opponents. Two of our blockers formed the defense inside the paint and Gijon had 6 blocks. The belarussian FG was quite low and from the defensive end we were great.
This season was a nailbiter. Most of the games were tight ones. Todays game was no exclusion. From our current status, we have a really unfortunate position. Strong enough to win against the bigger nations if they make a mistake. This leads to games like today. Belarus played with some effort, despite having the home court advantage. In my opinion, this one fact was responsible for their win. If they played with less effort, they lose. On the other hand we are still not so frightening that weaker teams tank against us. They see an opportunity to crunsh or get us in some ways. So currently we fight to two sights and this is sometimes really troublesome.

For the next couple of weeks, I will play with different line ups and try to involve all the young ones.

Hugs and well done sir!