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Game 3: Sweden (43) 119:124 Croatia (42)

This loss is on me. The wrong pediction caused a -7.5% on the OD of our players and in the end this lead to the meltdown in the fourth quarter. Without this the game was ours.
After I saw the game shape of Croatia, I was quite sure they would go inside. The RnG surprised me. They lost two players, got outrebounded and had a hard time against our defense... and still won -.- And the substitution was a mess today. But I know why now. And this shouldn't happen again.

This loss takes us in a quite "akward" position. If this goes wrong, Poland will go for a 7:0 and behind them there will be 3 teams with 4:3... and one with a 5:2. And we have to go for this 5:2. Our next game is against Danmark and the other teams (Poland, Slovenia and Croatia) ahve to play against each other during the next games. So from the four teams which fight for second place, we have the "easiest" decission: win all games!
The other three have to poker for there enthusiasm and so on. I really wanted this victory today, but the loss doesn't eliminate us from the Euro. For this our group is too deadly balanced.

A quick look at our guys:
MVP of the team: Akersten. He scored like a young god among mortals. 65.4% FG as a SG is awesome. I would take this scoring from him every week.

Stat line of the night: Widerström. During the first half it looked like Widerström was going for a quadruple double. 15 rebs, 7 assists and 7 blocks paired with 25 pts showed his true potential and usability.

Teamwork: 4 players with at least 11 rebs... STRONG!

What I miss: JR and free throw. These are the last parts for this team to be freaking balanced. I really hope that during the next reasons there will emerge players which can take this team around Widerström to a higher level.


Last edited by Nachtmahr at 12/07/2015 14:58:30

Update

Current situation:
1 - Poland - 995,3
2 - Finland - 929,8
3 - Serbia - 743,1
4 - France - 408,5
5 - Italy - 391,5
6 - Czech Republic - 350,9

7 - Spain - 350,6
8 - Slowakia - 332,5
9 - Ukraine - 317
10 - Slovenia - 273,4
11 - Belgium - 253,6
12 - Russia - 243,9

13 - Greece - 241,5
14 - Switzerland 226,2
15 - Hungary 226
16 - Danmark 224,5
17 - Nederlands - 219,2
18 - Lithuania - 219

19 - Belarus - 210
20 - Turkey - 207,2
21 - Croatia - 205,1
22 - Germany 196,1
23 - Sverige - 195,9
24 - Portugal - 187,6

25 - Bosnia&Hercogovina - 183
26 - England - 180,1
27 - Romania - 178,6
28 - Bulgaria - 177,8
29 - Latvia - 176,8
30 - Austria - 172,7


Standing: 08.12.2015

Despite losing we managed to improve our points. This week we couldn't move up and are still in 23th place. Germany is only 0,2 pts in front of us.

Last edited by Nachtmahr at 12/09/2015 15:36:07

YES!!! Third place in our group and it's possible that we will surpass Germany and Croatia.

Great game! You really squeeze great performances out of every player.

Game 4: Sweden (43) 117:105 Danmark (35)

An important win for us because with this we moved up to the third playce. And thanks to this we can still finish as second. We have to win the next three games and than see if we can finish as second or stay third because of the point diference.
Both european teams in front of us in the ranking lost. Germany will fall behind us, Crotia propably too. Turkey lost also against Austria. They are 11.3 pts in front of us. This should be in our reach. The best result we can achieve for us today is the 20th place! So let's see tomorrow how far we will climb

MVP: Sommarborg. Strong shooting performance and a beast at the boards. He was the only player with double digit rebounds and a double double today.

Teamwork: The bench players made the difference today. 8-17 FG for the five back ups says enough.

We gave away 11 free throws today... again. This hurts us every game.

Update

Current situation:
1 - Poland - 1.011,1
2 - Finland - 930,2
3 - Serbia - 743,5
4 - France - 409,3
5 - Italy - 391
6 - Spain - 354,3

7 - Czech Republic - 352
8 - Slowakia - 338,5
9 - Ukraine - 316,1
10 - Slovenia - 275,6
11 - Belgium - 260,2
12 - Greece - 257,1

13 - Russia - 247,5
14 - Switzerland - 245,2
15 - Hungary - 241,4
16 - Nederlands - 223,1
17 - Lithuania - 222,8
18 - Sverige - 211,7

19 - Danmark - 211,5
20 - Belarus - 210,5
21 - Bosnia&Hercogovina - 198,8
22 - Croatia - 193
23 - Turkey - 191,3
24 - Germany 184,9

25 - England - 181,5
26 - Bulgaria - 181,3
27 - Romania - 180,2
28 - Latvia - 178,7
29 - Austria - 172,5
30 - Portugal - 172,2

Standing: 15.12.2015

15,8 points and FIVE ranks!!! We moved up by five ranks... And this means we are in the third group now.
That's a huge jump and I really hope that we can move up a little bit more this season. Two of the other five teams in our third group will be eliminated after this round. If we manage to move to second place, we should reach rank 13-15 in Europe.

Last edited by Nachtmahr at 12/15/2015 13:12:15

I'm really looking forward to see how far we can get as well. Personally i really like the new NT coaches (Both Nachtmahr and Jacob_F) because they brings new energy and motivation to the forums aswell as the game itself and training players. And it feels like Nachtmahr really is putting a lot effort into it, perhaps a bit more than the NT coaches before him, and although i think they did a great job, they wasn't putting in the same effort and wasn't as strategic when it comes to ranking and even tactics where he's extremly good. So really, i think we can climb almost into top 30 if not higher if Nachtmahr keeps it up. Because really, our NT team isn't more than mediocre. And the U21 is doing alright as well, although we seem to loose half the games in OT.. ;)

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