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And that was the final point in a dramatic, horrific and bad luck season. Currently I am shocked how bad it went with such a heavy loaded starting five.
During the next weeks I will do everything I can to bring the team back next season. For me, it will be do or die. If I make such mistakes again like this season, I will make a ajustment than.

We still love you!
For sure the ball was not our friend this championship.
Keep at it and I love to read what you write.

From this seasong and alot from last got one thing in common, we play alot of games with fast pace, this season was only fast pace in our tactics. Just a thing i noticed

Keep up the good work mate!!

@Lövet:
Yeah, you are right. I will see what impact slow/normal tactics could have.

The misery goes on. Smol was injured on tuesday and is out for two weeks. That's just insane now...

On Monday we will play your neighbours: Suomi. We NTs decided to go for neutral playground and enthusiasm 1.

Okay, this season is killing me I have officially no idea left, why our team plays so crazy. In every game, we have a window were we get crushed. And I mean outscored by 15 points in 4 minutes or so. The opponents score and we can't get a single bucket. It would be clear to understand, if this would happen during the last couple of minutes of a game. But his happens sometimes during the first quarter, than right after half time.
So the point that our stamina is too low (it got higher during the last seasons, so this isn't the factor) can be ruled out.

There is also almost no difference which tactic I play. They will play one half time on a high level and the other half time is the worst case scenario. The best example here is our Mr. first half (Westerlund). He scores 25 points during the first half and ends the game with 29 points.

And than, looking at the team, the skills and the results... it doesn't match. They underperfom heavily.

I'm open for every idea, explanation, test or hint you have. I really never had such a hard season with any of my teams. Currently I'm left with a lot of questions and almost no answers...

P.S.: never play CT during the first game... that kills your mojo.

The horror season is over and we managed to finish it with at least a OT win. I really hope, that the new season will have no similarities with the old one.
I scouted already all the Pot 9+ players and took a look at the youngest ones. There are some great prospects, but it looks like, that we have a shortage of big guys.

The lack of big guys is concerning in my opinion. We are constantly behind other nations when it comes to U21 bigs and I would like to see that trend hopefully change soon.

The few that we do have are nice builds though (Westerlund, Birgersson...).

Yes, the current big pool is deep. We have all kind of bigs, so there is no problem to choose.

But the long term could be bad. Looking at all the big trainees, which are not in the NT, there are only a few who could possible reach the NT.
Jonas Jannson, 25 years.
Per Lennartsson, 25 years.
Eric Mellbeck, 23 years.

And I fear that's it in the class 22-26 years. We have a far higher quality at the PG/SG/SF position than on PF/C. One of the reasons is an engine problem. There are much more smaller high potential players, than tall ones. There is almost the same amount of players with 183-188cm as with 208-226cm. And most of the tall players have really bad guardskills. This adds to the training problem. If you have to start with 4 skills at 1, it will take a lot of time to bring him to a decent level.

Last edited by Nachtmahr at 4/12/2018 4:31:58 AM

What is a big?
Is it related to skills onesided or real game length?

Sorry for being noob :)

Last edited by Spela at 4/12/2018 1:02:29 PM

It is a player who has his native position (by skills) on PF or/and C.
Most of the time you a big has a height over 200cm.

The new season started with an OT win against Belgium. If this is our new way of playing (winning in OT), I will take it. ;)
Yesterday's game was just a first warm up run for our outside players. It was nice, but they have to bring it on a weekly basis.
Our first two opponents are set. We play at home against Russia and than visit Austria.
The russian team has a wide range of players. Like us, they have three 200k+ guys. We have the home court advantage, but like always, enthusiasm 5 can be quite evil.
Austria has its prime behind it. Julian Kröll, one of the best SFs in this game, had already some downs. And if he plays, what I expect, it could be his last run with the NT.

On friday I will check our team, see what happens with the russian players and set a first line up. After saturday's game I will fix it and than we will head into the new season. Hopefully without injuries...