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Thanks for the opinion of Alexis. This is logical. Even against external tactics, the benefits are not very great. ManToMan looks more reliable and versatile. I completely agree

Thanks for the opinion of Alexis. This is logical. Even against external tactics, the benefits are not very great. ManToMan looks more reliable and versatile. I completely agree

Well, it is a valid choice if your opponent has a very strong outside offense. And it also helps intercept passes meant for the Inside-Players. That's why some nations train their players like that: (47458608) Those players work very well with a 3-2 zone defense against LI. To be sure to cover every possibility, you can even set an inside-GDP. Then the 3-2 defense would stop any outside offense like motion/rng and if they go inside, those two bigmen with crazy ID and especially Blocking will defend like hell. And with the Inside-GDP, they'll even get a boost for inside defense. Meaning less passes reach the players attacking inside and if they reach them, they've got those defensive monsters right in front of them. Finland has played like that for quite a while and been pretty successful, especially in a time where no other nations used those tactics.

The match with Macedonia was played.
Last Friday we received a good number of upgrades: Boyd - 1, Fitchy - 1, Lyle - 2, Baillie - 1, MacShimes - 1.
In addition, most of the team was in good shape. Spens me surprised, having played 34 minutes over the past week, he increased his form from 8 to 9. Amazing.
Without a doubt, the high form, as well as the fantastic implementation of FT and the advantage in rebound gave us the opportunity to fight in the match, to be on an equal footing with Macedonia for most of the game. But we are still weaker in the grade.
The next match is with my compatriots. I want to give a fight too

Great to see that the team continues to improve! You're getting closer to that first victory. Looking really forward to see that team with a couple of more ups perform in about 2 seasons time.

What exactly did happen today? RUSSIA going for a CT against Scotland? And still almost losing the game. That is great news, even if it's yet another loss ... great game, congrats (even if Russias enthusiasm was supposedly pretty low after probably 2 CTs prior to this game, one definitely confirmed) ...

I guess the team is moving into the right direction. Especially the top players are close to reaching international level. I hope that in the future we'll have more great players off the bench that are equally capable to start the occasional game.

Great work, TRUF!

(and of course all the managers that keep training their NT players!!)

The match with Russia was played.
On Friday we received 2 upgrades: Lyle - 1, MacShimes - 1. For the third week I am very happy with the form of the players. The managers of the national team players are great fellows.
On the one hand, Russia had less enthusinasm. But on the other hand, the opponent played Crunch Time.
Still, defeat is natural. I was also pleased with Lyle. Being in the form of 8, he was able to consistently score points throughout the match.
We have a match with Denmark ahead of us. The Danes were able to defeat Macedonia in this round. Apparently, this is the match of the season for us. We will strive to win.

The group stage of the European Championship has ended, we still managed to finish the tournament with a great match. We beat the Danes, it was not easy, but we were able to =) Out of six groups, we are the only ones with a victory from the teams in eighth place.
It's great that after a short week, almost all the players have not lost their shape. We played very well in defense. And in attack, all the players played steadily, they threw three-pointers very well. I was surprised that the coach of the Danes did not play CT.
On Friday, we received only 1 upgrade from Boyd. A series of friendly matches is ahead. Let's see who we can agree on the next matches with

The group stage of the European Championship has ended, we still managed to finish the tournament with a great match. We beat the Danes, it was not easy, but we were able to =) Out of six groups, we are the only ones with a victory from the teams in eighth place.
It's great that after a short week, almost all the players have not lost their shape. We played very well in defense. And in attack, all the players played steadily, they threw three-pointers very well. I was surprised that the coach of the Danes did not play CT.
On Friday, we received only 1 upgrade from Boyd. A series of friendly matches is ahead. Let's see who we can agree on the next matches with

congratulations!!!

Hi, so far we will be playing scrimmage until the end of the season.
This week we played a match with Sweden. The match was productive, but they managed to make difficulties for our external attack.
MacShimes and Boyd received upgrades last Friday.
I also prepared general statistics on players in the group stage matches of the European Championship:
T. MacArthur
6 matches, 161 min, FG 6-36, 3FG 3-12, FT 4-6,
19 pts, 24 reb, 22 ast, 3 stl, 1 blk, 12 to, 7 pf, ∓ -96
S. Spens
6 matches, 212 min, FG 33-77, 3FG 3-10, FT 9-11,
78 pts, 67 reb, 8 ast, 1 stl, 5 blk, 15 to, 14 pf, ∓ -121
A. Boyd
7 matches, 208 min, FG 19-66, 3FG 4-19, FT 8-10,
50 pts, 37 reb, 16 ast, 3 stl, 0 blk, 8 to, 12 pf, ∓ -115
L. Willey
7 matches, 81 min, FG 8-27, 3FG 2-7, FT 1-2,
19 pts, 12 reb, 8 ast, 1 stl, 0 blk, 3 to, 11 pf, ∓ -23
M. MacLamond
7 matches, 82 min, FG 29-68, 3FG 7-14, FT 8-9,
73 pts, 17 reb, 3 ast, 1 stl, 1 blk, 2 to, 6 pf, ∓ -52
L. Corbet
1 match, 10 min, FG 3-4, 3FG 1-1, FT 0-0,
7 pts, 0 reb, 2 ast, 0 stl, 0 blk, 0 to, 0 pf, ∓ -1
L. Barrie
6 matches, 171 min, FG 27-55, 3FG 1-4, FT 10-10,
65 pts, 40 reb, 8 ast, 1 stl, 4 blk, 7 to, 13 pf, ∓ -85
K. Duffy
2 matches, 24 min, FG 1-7, 3FG 0-1, FT 0-0,
2 pts, 3 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl, 0 blk, 3 to, 0 pf, ∓ -24
J. MacKersey
2 matches, 28 min, FG 4-8, 3FG 0-0, FT 0-0,
8 pts, 10 reb, 2 ast, 0 stl, 0 blk, 1 to, 1 pf, ∓ -16
J. Łosiak
6 matches, 140 min, FG 19-48, 3FG 0-4, FT 9-10,
47 pts, 53 reb, 3 ast, 1 stl, 1 blk, 11 to, 8 pf, ∓ -100
F. Fitchy
7 matches, 186 min, FG 24-53, 3FG 7-20, FT 10-10,
65 pts, 17 reb, 16 ast, 7 stl, 0 blk, 7 to, 7 pf, ∓ -110
B. MacShimes
6 matches, 66 min, FG 8-18, 3FG 0-3, FT 7-7,
23 pts, 5 reb, 3 ast, 0 stl, 0 blk, 1 to, 5 pf, ∓ -9
B. Baillie
2 matches, 35 min, FG 7-25, 3FG 3-12, FT 2-4,
19 pts, 6 reb, 1 ast, 1 stl, 0 blk, 0 to, 1 pf, ∓ -11
R. MacLymont
2 matches, 14 min, FG 2-9, 3FG 0-1, FT 4-4,
8 pts, 2 reb, 0 ast, 1 stl, 0 blk, 0 to, 0 pf, ∓ -23
P. Lyle
7 matches, 234 min, FG 54-145, 3FG 10-36, FT 33-38,
151 pts, 30 reb, 23 ast, 5 stl, 0 blk, 8 to, 7 pf, ∓ -162

Played scrimmage with Latvia. Before the match, 2 players were added to the squad. TSP both have more than 100. Blair, albeit with a little talent, but has good skills. He is versatile, in the sum of two defenses, loses only to four players in the squad. MacNeilly has more talent, good attacking potential, but in defense he is not impressive yet. The player is more controversial. I gave them both a chance to play in the match. The game turned out to be fun, attacking. However, games with ent = 1 always turn out like this.
There were 2 upgrades on Friday, Blair and Ballie. Ballie at the age of 29 has already received three upgrades in the season. This increases his chances of getting into the squad for games in the following seasons.

We played scrimmage with Norway. I decided to try to play a match with an empty arrangement and Look Inside. Since our players are not very suitable for this tactic, it was interesting how the computer would get out of this situation. As a result of the match, there was an unusual arrangement of players in positions. Willey, Corbet and MacKersey got a place in the start. At the same time, Boyd and Barrie came off the bench. I was especially surprised that Boyd, who was in form 9, got only 10 minutes, also in position C. However, there are really few players in the bigmen position. Nevertheless, the choice was not the most obvious. The team looked good for most of the match, but a couple of failed segments decided the outcome.
On Friday, only one player received upgrades - Fitchy +2.