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A comfortable win 119-86 (8667), I think this puts us 2nd after DK on the table.

The surprise of this round is without doubt the loss of Belgium vs Cyprus. a TIE vs CT situation (8665), Belgium is a direct competitor of ours in the race to the 2nd spot (the 1st is, theoretically speaking, taken by Germany)

This is a good proof that TIE is a dangerous thing to do... Still it seems like the belgium guards were destroyed by the cypriot's collegues. IMHO it was a risky choice from Cyprus, pre-match I'd think they would lose even with a CT!

The starting guards for Cyprus don't seem that scary:

Agapitos Atmatzidis (6166959)
Yiorgos Lavdas (6253133)

But they were in good shape (strong) the Belgium guards were in good shape as well, but they look rather weak:

Kenny Belleville (6846488)
Stefan Van Quaquebeke (5861280)

Note that those are the worst guards on the Belgium roster. However the best guards have bad GS at the moment (average and mediocre).

With 20/20 hindsight the choice of guards from the Belgium side was unfortunate. A strong OD guard in poor shape would have saved the day... Then again if Cyprus did not play CT it would not have been an issue...

May I ask the teams with english NT players to look after their game shape!??!

This slip on the Belgium side is a reminder of how important GS is!

A good, comfortable start, elboss, against the Irish. Good luck for the rest of the tournament. Wish my guys were anywhere near good enough for you...

A good, comfortable start, elboss, against the Irish. Good luck for the rest of the tournament. Wish my guys were anywhere near good enough for you...

Thanks! If you train Jody properly he might be good enough pretty soon :)

Ha! I've now got two forwards who need serious traiing, and it's starting to interfere with my other plans. Oh well, it'll be worth it to see one of my players make the NT. Cheers.

On Monday we face Shqipëria, on paper not the most fearful opponent, but after the "shocking" result of Cyprus-Belgium we all know not to take any match for granted!

They lost their opening match against DK (8666) but posted a "Proficient" inside attack. And overall, their stats are not nearly as bad as you'd think.

In fact they seem better than other teams in the group... This week their GS is messed up, which should help us to no end.

Thanks to all teams with english NT players, the GS this week is a lot better!

We have the stats of 3 out of 14 of their players (see above post). As usual we'll our best! Wish the team well!!

We'll be looking at the performance of Cyprus (against DK) as well, since they will be our next opponent.


Last edited by elboss at 1/1/2010 10:16:56 AM

This is our match again Shqipëria (8669)

We won 97-60, which is not bad. We also posted pretty decent ratings.

No real surprises in the group, Belgium won against Sakartvelo (8671), recovering from last week mishap...

We should be 1st in the group followed by Germany and Denmark!

Last edited by elboss at 1/4/2010 4:54:43 PM

Nice :-)

Good win tonight, those team and player ratings are pretty impressive!

Congratulations for the win. These ratings are very good. Maybe we can even go to the 2nd round

Nice job. Happy to see them spending some enthusiasm, too. :)

good win mate

it shows a good draw is half the job done.

Despite to what other people are thinking, it will be a very hard feat to qualify for the next round. It is funny to see what 2 wins against minnows can do. Looking at the ratings for Belgium, Germany and Sakartvelo, which are very similar to ours, it will all come down to managing enthusiasm and perhaps even baskets for and against.

The fact we were able to Tie twice already will be a massive help...

Keep up the good job and lets hope the coaches that have players in the NT will manage their gameshape better.

Moominpapa