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First game, first win, first CT against us.
Luxembourg tried to steal a victory from us. It was quite obviuos that they will try to CT us. Thanks to our home court advantage we managed to get the upper hand and finish 105:96. For a first game after the season break our team showed a strong performance and I hope we can keep this pace. I wouldn't be sad, if we can go through with a lot more victories

Next week we will visit Armenia. After that the next games will be drawn.

After two wins we have a good standing. Our next opponents are:

@ Wales - should be a win

vs. Indonesia - tough team, higher ranked than we are but we have the HCA

@ Macau - could be dangerous

vs. Slovenia - highest ranked opponent, very good and our luck, that we have the HCA

@ Greece - extremly tough game

vs. Aserbaidjan - should be a win


We don't have one of the most dangerous teams, but still some hard to play. A lot will depend on the game shape and tactic, but my target is the K.O. round.

Crap! OT loss against a patient I'm pretty p*ssed about this. HCA, exellent GS, the best possible outside team and still 46 pts from a 33y old SF. -.- This loss wasn't planed and brings the team in a more difficult position. With two stronger opponents left, we have to beat one of them now, no matter what...

We are back on track again. The next two games will show where we end up. The loss from last week is such a bother and makes it pretty hard. So let's hope for the best and a strong TU on friday...

What should I say? I set the best Line Up which was possible for this game. Our team played an impressive LI and had +16 rebounds. We injured the starting SG, fouled out 3 other starters and in the end Klavc shoot us out. The irony here is that the manager of Klavc (Aleksander) asked me several seasons ago how to train and use him...
The ratings are in our favor and prove once more that they are meaningless in BB. Even the HCA wasn't enough to pull out a win. Next week we face elimination against Greece. And they are unbeaten, what else!?

It was clear that Greece will go outside. So I went with a 3-2 line up. OD player at 1-3 and ID/SB bigs on 4 and 5. This left me with RnG AS an offense. Bitte even with more effort it was not enough to crack Greece. Every quarter was almost at the same level but as a sum, it was too much. Now we are two places behind the ko round. With our last home it is clear that the ko round is the main target.

It looks like we made a perfect landing... We surpassed Russia (lost against Italy), Australia (lost against Switzerland) and UAE (we surpassed their point difference by 2 pts). If Singapur gets a really high win, we should end up 31st or 32nd. So perfect for a game against one of the unbeaten powerhouses Serbia or Italy. Why should we wait until the finals if we can play them in the first round? So let's see what the final standing will be and how will be our next target.

So, the game against Czech Republic was lost by a huge margin. We went with enthusiasm 7 into the game. Our opponent had almost the double amount plus home court advantage. They played half of their games LI so, I risked it and they contered with Motion. On the other side it was clear that they will go for a "fast" GDP and I tried to go around and play Standard.

Looking back, the loss against Indonesia was the neckbreaker. This home loss was clearly planned as a victory. After that game I had to invest more enthusiasm against Slovenia and Greece. Even a CT was needed to maintain a good point difference and to reach the KO round.

On Monday we will play against Belgium. During the next weeks we will play several teams and try to go up in the WR again.

Some words about the current team. Even if we lost, the team is currently really well trained (big thanks to all the managers) and has a wide range of talents. Our NT player pool has 20 players which could play and they are all different, so we are not bound to one or two tactics. I am convinced that the current team is one of the strongest, if not the strongest swedish team, in all these seasons. It's just frustrating to lose some games by a small margin and never really utilise the full potential of the guys...