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Thanks, that is what I hope as well

So, on Monday we start with our first match of this season. We will play against one of the lowest ranked European teams, Wales. Although we are coming into the match as huge favourites, I still hope our guys will take the game seriously. These days, every team has at least some decent players, and no team should be treated lightly.

We will start the tournament with the following 12 players:

Tommy Fyhrhult, 33, SG, Malmö Highflyers (SBBL), team captain

Tobias Bokholt, 34, SF, NPC Campden (Canada, 1st division)

Markus Andersson, 33, SF, Malmö Highflyers (SBBL)

Anders Strandblom, 32, PG, Iwillsurvive (Romania, 1st division)

Petter Börjesson , 31, PF, Afk Ballers (SBBL)

Frank Jonasson, 31, C, Pistonpanters (II.3)

Jack Stjärna, 29, C, tannum tantrums (Australia, 2nd division)

Håkan Dallius, 29, PF, LA Wet Nights (II.3)

Frank Gilltorp, 28, SG, Afk Ballers (SBBL)

Finn Egghall, 27, PG, Glaskulans IF (SBBL)

Mattias Nilsson, 26, PF, Pit i collons!! (Spain, 3rd division)

Lasse Lundell, 25, PG, Utopian freaks (Utopia, 2nd division)

These are more or less also currently the best players. I will later fill the roster with players in good game shape. Primarily I hope to give a chance to some additional younger players like Niclas Kihlsjö (28), Peter Rosstål (27), Sören Häggin (25), Kristian Forsbratt (24), Roger Hartsten (25) and Christianos Serafidis (25), who will be the core of the team in the future. There are also some older players, who might be called, Jesper Frank (34) , Charlie Håkansson (34), and Ola Gunnarsson (31) are the most usual suspects, but I also check game shape of a few other guys.

I completed scouting for all generations. It is nice to see, that most of the talent is trained by domestic managers, with few exceptions, who also seem to be in good hands. I thank everyone for their response on my mails, I am positively surprised by motivation of Swedish community to train NT caliber players, so I believe, we will be able to take several steps forward in the future.

One technical remark - If anyone is interested in a bit faster communication, we can do it over discord, as some managers already suggested. In fact, Slovenian BB community started its discord server approx. 4 (RL) years ago, and it was a huge success. We have about 180 users in BB, more than 100 of them are on discord, and most of them are posting quite regularly, so our community really became more lively afterwards. Since I don't hold a Swedish BB (or else) passport, it is maybe not on me to start the channel, but if there is somebody who would make it, I would be glad to contribute.

Anyhow, I hope for the successful start of the season





Last edited by Deschamps at 12/9/2023 3:21:21 PM

I made a Discord server would love if someone else wanted to admin though since my Discord skills are limited

https://discord.gg/YJszpxxw

Har noll koll på discord, vad är det som man kan göra där som man inte kan göra i forumet här? Vi har ju knappt nån diskussion som det är tänkte jag? :)

Snabbare kommunikation och slippa logga in på hemsidan varje gång för att kolla updates på forumet. Är väl främst kanske för NT. Många länder och coacher gör liknande för att snabbt nå ut till större mängd spelare och så kan man ju ha en diskussion hur det tränas till NT.

Ja det låter väl bra. Som läget är nu med U-21 får man vara nöjd om spelarna överhuvudtaget tränas och håller formen så det finns säkert förbättringspotential.

Minns det väl men för NT finns det iallafall ett incitament i form av merchandise att hålla sin spelare i bra form och träna

Great I hope many people join, so maybe put some advertising on league forums as well (or I will ). Much easier and more fluent communication regarding NT, U21, top tier league, FAQ and more.

As far as the NT is concerned, I will go a bit more into detail in discord, regarding tactics, etc. But I also believe forums have their place, they offer better oversight and messages tend to stay longer here.

Regarding yesterday's match:

We beat Wales easily (72447), as was quietly expected. But it was my first match on the position, so there was more nervousness that it is usually against a team of such different quality. Our best scoring position was SF, with starting SF Markus Andersson leading the scoring table (27 points), and his backup Lasse Lundell being second among scorers with 17 points.

Not much more to say about such game. At the end, victory by 47 points seems quite good, no matter the level of our opponent. This was the second highest win of the evening, only Bosnia managed to beat Azerbaijan by a higher margin of 57 points, while some other uneven matches (tournament hosts Lithuania vs Malta, Israel-Ireland, France-Montenegro, Netherlands-Albania, Turkey-Andora, etc.) all ended with lesser victories. Although this is encouraging, it means nothing, and true tests are coming soon. Next week we are facing Switzerland, a very decent opponent of similar quality. I expect a much closer game, although we are coming into the match as slight favourites.

Crossing fingers for a good game shape again



Last edited by Deschamps at 12/12/2023 8:33:49 AM

Jag tänker att det är mycket enklare att diskutera i Discord speciellt att göra träningsplaner för "stora" landslaget där det behöver koordineras lite mer så vi kan få fram olika typer av spelare. Det vore kul om vi kunde få landslaget upp ett snäpp till. Sedan får vi se hur intresset är, vi är ju inte så många eller aktiva men det kanske är enklare att hålla kvar och engagera nya yngre användare med hjälp av Discord tänker jag

Next week we are facing Switzerland, a very decent opponent of similar quality. I expect a much closer game, although we are coming into the match as slight favourites.

No giveaways pre-game in their forum im afraid (I live in Switzerland and is in that forum aswell). Maybe they are using discord also? :)
Jokes aside, their team is probably still weaker, though they have some good 25-27y/o coming up.

Funny, I am currently in Switzerland as well, although I sense no huge disappointment after their yesterday's loss

So, yesterday we managed to beat Switzerland (72451). The game was a bit more dramatic than the end result suggests.

Start of the match was not easy for us. Although Tommy Fyhrhult scored the first two points of the match, Swiss took the initiative afterwards and soon got to a nice lead. After 8 minutes, the score was 17-7 for the Swiss. We were forced to take a time-out (never a good sign, if your team takes time-out first), but still didn't manage to come back within the first quarter, which ended with 26-18.

We improved our offense significantly in the second quarter, and after six minutes Petter Börjesson tied the score to 35. We kept our momentum and got ahead to 48-43, but the opponent finished the first half better, and the score was once again tied at 52.

Third quarter was the decisive one, we were better from the first minute, although our captain Fyhrhult was injured at the very beginning. Slowly but steady we increased the point difference. After five minutes, Markus Andersson, man of the match once again, increased our lead to +10, and we didn't let the Swiss closer to 6 points afterwards. The quarter ended with 85-75.

We still needed to keep our pace in the final quarter, but the team showed discipline and didn't let the point difference get any lower than 10 points. Anders Strandblom scored for 104-88 five minutes to go, and the victory seemed very close. Although the Swiss quickly replied with a three pointer, that was all they could do, and we further increased the difference at the end of the match.

Final score was therefore 113-93, Martin Andersson was once again our best scorer (by far) with 35 points, and Petter Börjesson was the main power under the basket with 15 points and 16 rebounds (8 of them in the offense).

The difference between the two teams was mainly due to our superb game shape, and I really mean superb - 8 of 12 players were in GS=9, very rarely can this be seen in the second week. So kudos to all owners I can only hope for similar GS in the upcoming weeks. We are facing progressively better opponents, first Russia, then Belgium, and Poland afterwards.

Once again I invite you to discord, which is growing steadily