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285970.6 in reply to 285970.5
Date: 4/3/2017 2:37:10 PM
Durham Wasps
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
16621662
Second Team:
Sunderland Boilermakers
Very poor job today I'm afraid. The players did their best but apart from putting some in impossible situations I should have been able to predice that Denmark were at the very least going inside on us. Instead I attempted to match their lineup when it would been better playing to our strengths. I also felt Denmark would normal, since it looks a game they might be looking to win.

Some players did outstandingly well despite my poor choices. Domanowski with 12 assists stood out. In fact we did well passing which makes my tactical choices look even worse. Though on the other hand there were far too many turnovers, albeit not all of those were from poor ball handling.

Katz again, Ian Grove and Elphinstone scored well, though we never really looked as good shooting as Denmark.

Of course, I should add Denmark played really well. They have a couple of very good players and use them well. I'm sure they'll compete well in the group.

Looks at the moment that next week might be a week off of sorts, but I'll prepare as if there's going to be a game.

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285970.7 in reply to 285970.6
Date: 4/10/2017 2:28:24 PM
Durham Wasps
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
16621662
Second Team:
Sunderland Boilermakers
Review later. First, a rant.

Its bloody disgusting in any game to give a walkover but in a situation where there are so few games, giving a walkover in an NT game is disgraceful. Gifting teams wins by 50 points and then showing up for a game is just ridiculous. Shame on Albania.

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285970.8 in reply to 285970.7
Date: 4/13/2017 1:55:05 PM
Durham Wasps
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
16621662
Second Team:
Sunderland Boilermakers
As I already said, at least Albania finally showed up for a game. Typical that it would be ours, though at least they didn't crunch us.

Only managed a win by 48 points, when I was hoping for more than 50, which is what the other teams they (didn't) played earlier got for their walkovers. I played a different lineup to the previous two games, a much more offensive starting 5 with less emphasis on defence. We're fortunate that we can do that, but it wasn't quite enough.

Next week will be a different matter altogether. Latvia pushed Poland this week, and they've often had good teams in the past so it will be a test.

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285970.9 in reply to 285970.8
Date: 4/21/2017 3:49:14 PM
Durham Wasps
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
16621662
Second Team:
Sunderland Boilermakers
Close games are always tense and this monday's was worse than most. We looked poor in the first quarter, but for the rest of the game we played reasonably well, especially the third where we seemed to score at will.

Having been twenty plus points behind, to the point where we actually managed to get a four point lead, it was a massive disappointment to lose it in the end.

The two starting guards, Domanowski and Grove scored well, we had assists from almost everywhere, but we didn't rebound as well as Latvia, and we fouled too often.

We have Spain next. They're only the world champions so that's ok. At least they'll be expecting an easy game.

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285970.10 in reply to 285970.9
Date: 4/21/2017 5:11:16 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
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Latvia have a 7'3, 91k salary C, how are we meant to Rb against that?? XD

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285970.11 in reply to 285970.10
Date: 4/21/2017 7:32:23 PM
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Latvia have a 7'3, 91k salary C, how are we meant to Rb against that?? XD
Gully knows: foul him hard until they take him away from the arena on a stretcher.

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285970.12 in reply to 285970.11
Date: 4/22/2017 8:44:42 AM
Durham Wasps
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
16621662
Second Team:
Sunderland Boilermakers
Latvia have a 7'3, 91k salary C, how are we meant to Rb against that??
Gully knows: foul him hard until they take him away from the arena on a stretcher.

We tried that but he seemed unbreakable.

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285970.13 in reply to 285970.12
Date: 5/9/2017 12:55:28 PM
Overall Posts Rated:
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Man...Witt's performance last game was pretty dire. Sorry Gully.

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285970.14 in reply to 285970.13
Date: 5/9/2017 1:40:55 PM
Durham Wasps
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
16621662
Second Team:
Sunderland Boilermakers
No worse than my performance generally this season. Poor tactically especially.

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285970.15 in reply to 285970.14
Date: 5/22/2017 9:45:54 AM
Durham Wasps
II.4
Overall Posts Rated:
16621662
Second Team:
Sunderland Boilermakers
Time for my seasonal goodbyes to the 21yos. A week late for various reasons. Two teams, Soaring Eagles and Bournemouth Drunkers had two players on the team. The other teams represented were Porzigod, Los Mikitos, Basket Rebels (Spain), Delta Tau Kai (Italy), Mawens (Latvia), A Dogs, LA Star (Portugal), bc puhkekodo (Estonia), Titanic Turtles, Henry 1015 (China), and the difficult to type 波士頓塞爾蒂克 (Taiwan). The last apparently translates as Boston Celtics.

So, a very poor season by any standards. I think I'm lucky to have as high an approval rating as I do, as I do feel the squad wasn't as bad as they sometimes looked, and I don't feel I got the best out of them. Poor tactical choices, wrong gdp, mistakes in choosing effort all contributed.

The best thing to do is fit your tactics to the players at your disposal and I think I was still using tactics that could have been better with the previous season's players. Hopefully I'll do better next season.

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285970.16 in reply to 285970.15
Date: 5/22/2017 11:19:51 AM
Tide of Fire
II.3
Overall Posts Rated:
352352
Thanks for stepping in to hold the fort, and thanks to all those who continue to train players for the U21 and NT