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The first scrimmage is played and we won against Greece.
Unfortunately scrimmages don't give a lot of WR points so let us see what will happen.

We had a really strong offense and rebounding. The starters played more minutes than I hoped but we will see if I find a way how to manage it better.

Update

Current situation:
1 - Poland - 975,6
2 - Finland - 921,2
3 - Serbia - 760,5
4 - France - 412,1
5 - Italy - 404,4
6 - Slowakia - 396,8

7 - Spain - 382
8 - Czech Republic - 336,8
9 - Ukraine - 310,8
10 - Slovenia - 286,1
11 - Belgium - 277,7
12 - Greece - 248,3

13 - Switzerland - 244,6
14 - Russia - 242,4
15 - Nederlands - 226,2
16 - Belarus - 225
17 - Germany 219,6
18 - Latvia - 219,1

19 - Hungary - 216,8
20 - Sverige - 215,4
21 - Turkey - 210,5
22 - Bulgaria - 204,1
23 - Portugal - 197,6
24 - Israel - 195,6

25 - Bosnia&Hercogovina - 194
26 - Romania - 185,8
27 - Lithuania - 183,5
28 - Austria - 179,2
29 - Croatia - 178
30 - Danmark - 167,5

Standing: 12.01.2016

I don't like this. We won against a strong team and lost a rank -.-

On monday we will play against Portugal. I will test something new. I don't know if it will be successful, but it is necessary.

Sounds interesting!

Second scrimmage played and won

Today I tried an Inside Isolation. Funny coincidence: Portugal had the same idea.
But compaired to Portugal I had another thinking behind the tactic. I used Widerström as the C. Most of you know that there are better choices but my idea was: use his passing. The thing behind Iso Inside is that one of the inside players starts a play. He will try to score or pass the ball. So I hoped, that Widerström would pass and pass and pass and sometimes block.
Unfortunately he took 12 shot attempts, luckily he scored 5 of them. But what's more important: he had 8 assists and 4 blocks. Plus 11 rebounds. He was on a good way to achieve a triple double.
Sandbom was the perfect partner for Widerström today. He finished with 30 points on a 14-17 (82,4%) shooting! It was like he had the whole paint for himself. I hope it was thanks to the great passes of Widerström and Martinsson.

Our defense was really strong again. 12 and 11 as ratings and we hold Portugal to 34-93 (36,6%) FG and only 1-23 (4,3%) 3pt. Our 47,7% weren't that strong, but it was good.

Next week we will play against Norway... Let's see what I will try against them

Update

Current situation:
1 - Poland - 982,5
2 - Finland - 895,7
3 - Serbia - 768,9
4 - Slowakia - 426
5 - France - 415,5
6 - Spain - 412,5

7 - Italy - 375,4
8 - Czech Republic - 336,2
9 - Ukraine - 312,1
10 - Belgium - 308,2
11 - Slovenia - 290,7
12 - Greece - 248,2

13 - Switzerland - 248
14 - Russia - 242
15 - Belarus - 228,9
16 - Nederlands - 226,5
17 - Latvia - 224,4
18 - Germany 223,4

19 - Hungary - 220,9
20 - Sverige - 218,9
21 - Turkey - 207,1
22 - Bulgaria - 200,6
23 - Bosnia&Hercogovina - 197,7
24 - Portugal - 194,8

25 - Israel - 191,9
26 - Romania - 182,3
27 - Austria - 180
28 - Croatia - 174,4
29 - England - 167
30 - Estonia - 164,4

Standing: 19.01.2016

+3,5 points and still rank 20 in Europe.

103:92 against Norway. The third quarter was a desaster, but we managed to win. Good game!

Gained a few points in the ranking aswell. Keep up the good work!

Update

Current situation:
1 - Poland - 981,6
2 - Finland - 869,5
3 - Serbia - 774,2
4 - Slowakia - 463,2
5 - France - 420,8
6 - Spain - 384,5

7 - Czech Republic - 364,6
8 - Italy - 344,8
9 - Slovenia - 326,5
10 - Belgium - 313,4
11 - Ukraine - 308,8
12 - Switzerland - 252,1

13 - Greece - 247,1
14 - Russia - 242,2
15 - Nederlands - 230,7
16 - Latvia - 226,8
17 - Belarus - 226
18 - Hungary - 224,8

19 - Sverige - 222,8
20 - Germany 219,9
21 - Bulgaria - 203,9
22 - Turkey - 202,6
23 - Portugal - 198
24 - Bosnia&Hercogovina - 197,2

25 - Israel - 191,8
26 - Romania - 181,3
27 - Austria - 180,3
28 - Croatia - 174,2
29 - Estonia - 168,5
30 - England - 167

Standing: 26.01.2016

+3,9 points and one rank up!
Next week we will play against Germany. I will wait until Saturday and than decide which tactic and line up will be played.

And the next victory. I will post the game review tomorrow.

Update

Current situation:
1 - Poland - 976,4
2 - Finland - 842,2
3 - Serbia - 806,8
4 - Slowakia - 469,4
5 - Spain - 417,7
6 - France - 395,6

7 - Czech Republic - 369,9
8 - Belgium - 347,7
9 - Italy - 343,7
10 - Slovenia - 323,4
11 - Ukraine - 316,8
12 - Switzerland - 254,8

13 - Greece - 246,4
14 - Russia - 242,4
15 - Latvia - 236,6
16 - Hungary - 229
17 - Nederlands - 227,7
18 - Sverige - 227,2

19 - Belarus - 225,6
20 - Germany 216,4
21 - Bulgaria - 208
22 - Portugal - 199,1
23 - Turkey - 198,8
24 - Bosnia&Hercogovina - 193,4

25 - Israel - 188,4
26 - Austria - 181,2
27 - Romania - 177,1
28 - England - 170,5
29 - Estonia - 169,1
30 - Danmark - 157,7

Standing: 02.02.2016

Our victory against Germany had the effect that we are back at 18th rank and with that in group 3!
We almost closed the gap to The Nederlands and Hungary.

If some of you took a closer look to our game, you may found some curious things. The 3-2 zone, Widerström as a SG, Germany had an Inside offense rating of 15 but still could score as much as they usually do.
My main idea behind this game was to stop Scott Broszeit. He is the main power of the german team for almost 10 seasons now. So it was clear who would get this job. At the same time I needed someone powerful against Broszeit. Someone who could score against him. So Widerström had to move. And I move him to the SG spot to use his offense against weak inside defenders. And the rest was just putting the best solutions for this game into the remaining slots, changing the defense order and use the 3-2 zone to do the stuff which the 3-2 does
To be honest, it was a little bit an "out of the box" thinking, but that's just the way I play... no risk no fun ^^
We finished with a FG% of 50,6% and Germany with 38,7%. So our defense was one of our main pillars...again. Broszeit was held just to almost 25% FG and we had the upper hand at the rebounds. Only their SF Volf was hard to stop.

For next week I still have no idea who to challenge. We will see...