England U21 82-113 Lithuania U21
Used this game to try out a few different players and different tactic to see how it would work.
Travis Samuels was a big surprise for me to top score for the team, he was there primarly as a defender that could make the offense flow better. He had a great game with 16 points, 7 rebounds and 2 blocks. Makes my decisions for the line up next week a little more difficult now.
The decision to start Maher was a last minute choice. He's another 20/yo prospect with solid primary stats and good IS so I thought he could have a chance given his good GS. He scored 14 points which is not bad but he struggled else where, he took a lot of shots and struggled from 3.
Mulrain had his first poor game, but when he was up against a 90k salary playerit was always going to be difficult for him, still manage to grab 13 boards to go with 10 points.
The injury to Quaid didn't help early in the game, he could have took the load off Maher and Mulrain to score.
Notable performances off the bench were Singh and Daniels. Singh had 5 assists in only 12 mins and Daniels had 5 points and 6 rebounds in 13 minutes. Daniels, another 20y/o in the squad who will look to make a bigger impact next season.
Overall, it was a tough game for us, always was going to be with the opposition. We have the 3 worst teams i the group left to play. 4 teams all on 0-4 records play eachother to win the season, a mini league in my eyes which I will look to win.
Montenegro first up for us, lets get a notch in the W column.