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Its ok if u guys lost btw when u said we ran into a brick wall i thought of John Wall :(), It sux that u lost tho :(


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Post-Game Recap: Canada @ Argentina, December 13, 2010

This was an expected loss today, and there were no surprises. The final score ended up being Argentina 93, Canada 69. We did keep things fairly close early on, and were only down 37-32 early in the second quarter, but ended up getting blown out as the game went along.

Looking at the details of the game today, our Princeton offense resulted in some decent shooting out of SF, PF, and Center. Our starting SG, Chretien, got injured fairly early, so Torres played most of the SG minutes (and did alright out there). For player of the game, I'll give the nod to Philip Yates, who put up a fairly effecient 18 points on 6-14 shooting.

Next week, the action continues against Ecuador. A top 2 finish this season is pretty much officially ruled out for us now, although we're still in the hunt for 3rd in our group, and a spot in the repechage round next season.

I've never been a big fan of Princeton. Seems to favour outside shooting. That's just with my team though and my crappy offensive flow probably not being able to get the ball inside.

Seems like we got some bad luck according to the ratings in the Ecuador game.

Yeah, brutal luck.

2 big men (and a SF) fouled out and another big man got injured. Sometimes everything goes against you.

The last few weeks for the U21 have resulted in a 3rd place pool finish for Canada. After a surprising 1 point OT loss to Ecuador, we picked up wins against Paraguay and Costa Rica, and our 2-3 second round record earned us 3rd place in the group (on point differential). This means that after a scrimmage next week, we'll be thrown into the repechage round. Our repechage group will have 4 teams. The winner of the group qualifies for the world championships, and the 3 non-winners are sent to the consolation round (with 0-2 records). Other than us, there will be one team from each of Europe, Asia, and Africa. We won't know who we're playing until after next week, and let's hope that the draw puts us in a good spot.

The opening roster for next season will be selected approximately a week from now, and the training camp / selection process will be starting a bit early this season (due to the quick arrival of the repechage games). Details about this will be posted up shortly after the next training update.

Last edited by The Mogul at 1/4/2011 2:54:59 AM