Good win Vecx. Dodgy from them though, Vi at SG, PTB with a 2-3 zone so presumably 3 bigs? Odd.
I'm gonna do a match report too!! I'm on a roll so better keep it going.
Moldova u21 85 - 111 England u21.
An obvious game of two halves. I thought the fast tactic + a full court press was the best way of pushing our points difference, but I was pretty scared after the first quarter. I've played BB enough to think we'd probably pull it out in the end, but some crunches from weaker teams do work, and I didn't really like the look of this one...That diminished to just a bit of unhappiness at the half when we just had a lead, but fouled less in the 2nd than the first and also scored a little better. We had a decent lead by the end of the 3rd, and then a 13-4 start to the 4th quarter gave us garbage time.
That likely helped our scoreline, a 4th quarter using FCP (and we had 2 fast offensive tactics too) can be ugly for the team using it, as our bench came in instead we were still nice and fresh and pulled away to a 26 point victory. Not quite what I hoped for, but I'll take it.
No reason or obvious way to split our top 3 for MVP votes, so Arthur, Olivier and Bartolo all get 2 each today.
Hey both the u21s and seniors play Scotland next week...LADS ON TOUR. Drinking competitions and injuries from too competitive 5-a-side allround (alternatively: we're in different countries still, but whatevs. That's not a fun narrative)
Echo what Vecx-y said on game shape. I'm working with a small squad at the moment, and honestly I think there's less depth outside of the squad than my past couple of seasons, so good game shape on those in the squad will be more important than usual. One potential guard I'd have liked to use played a full 144 minutes last week, lols. An American manager in this case...Luckily I can trust most of our current managers anyway.