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England hammered the Scots ! (25795)

Another win, reach a 4 in a row effort for England.

With Lawrence MacKenzie (10815474) coming back from injury, and both Stephen Norton (22793597) and James Gascoigne (18059625) having good games, we won this game by a +17 advantage, mainly acuqired in the first QT, we just handled this advantage along the game.


Result of the game : England attempted 107 shots during the game.
Here are the rankings after 3 weeks : http://i58.servimg.com/u/f58/12/37/09/07/game310.jpg

Game for next week :
How many points our opponents will score ?

Deadline to answer is game start.


Next (hard...) game against Slovenija

Go England !

104

Let's say 111. ;) Good luck!

99

Too many, unfortunately.

Please don't try that tactic again.

Last edited by Elmacca at 10/28/2013 4:50:13 PM

ok. Maybe with a bit more luck we could've got a result, but I really don't like an offensive scheme that sees Alan Sharpling take 30 shots and go 1-12 from 3 when he's playing SG in an NT game. That means our flow was broken. I'd rather we didn't try it again.

you responded before i deleted my post...

we didnt play the hosts and yes it was the wrong tactics...

in hindsight we most likely would have matched them playing LI and not sure conner should have played as C either...

but we tried, lets hope we can still make it

even mackanzie didnt perform well under these tactics

Last edited by Astragoth at 10/28/2013 5:01:23 PM

Can we get a debriefing on that one? Would be interesting to know what you were hoping for there.

Our coach tried to create a mismatch at C that sees the C take most of the shots. And a possible mismatch at SF if the PF-type SF finds himself up against a guard, although that couldn't be relied upon.

It didn't quite work because of one or a combination of:

- our team-wide flow wasn't good enough to overcome the opposing teams OD, resulting in Sharpling taking late in the clock 3s. Entirely possible given who our SFs were.
- their C had high OD and there wasn't enough of a mismatch between Gascoigne and Anderson's JS and the opposing team C's OD rating, so Gascoigne didn't take enough shots. You do get Cs like that at NT level but not always.
- Sharpling actually had a clear JS/OD advantage over the opposing team's SG (entirely possible for Sharpling, even at NT level), and thus the GE decided he would shoot the ball when he had a reasonable shot open - instead of passing it to the intended mismatch (he went 8-18 from inside the arc and got to the FT line plenty, so that's ok).

Our D was good enough to keep their score down, but 83 points isn't good enough to win you NT games.

Basically, we shouldn't run that tactic with Sharpling in one of the guard positions unless we know their C doesn't have much OD to speak of, and even then it's risky given the handling/passing we're putting out at SF and PF.