BuzzerBeater Forums

Italy - Philippines 123-89

Mixed feelings after this match. We faced probably the best team in the world and we've been annihilated worse than I expected at first. Our offense is really good, our outside rating is probably the best along all the competition but indeed without defense and rebounding you can't win matches.
Italians big men are outstanding and despite my clinched prediction they shopped baskets for free in our paint.
We can say we allowed many oreb tap in, but generally speaking they are too ahead of us right now where primaries count considering low enth for all teams. Our scorers did it good with de lira torching Italians small forward and gamosa putting up a solid Performance. Our bench didn't do their job and our power forward position has been dismantled in all his rotating players. Lim buiza and Domingo were outscored by salary record man Argappio.
No drama for this loss, we can start our competition next week vs Peru.

Mvp: Bill Leon De Lira

This match pissed me off.
We shot better, we made more assist, we had better ratings, we had better matchups. And we lost.
I can't find a good reason, since basically despite their prediction our flow was brilliant, we did it great on offense.
Rebounding continues to be an issue unfortunately, but indeed losing a match because of our free throws % makes me really sad.
This was a match to win, we lost, so basically now our championship road is really difficult. I hope to find a way to come out, but by the way thanks to you because the roster was greatly shaped.
Unluckily first matches need primaries more than secondaries, in the Asia championship we usually have time to recover primaries during first group, now we're struggling since opponents are really tough.

Oh by the way congratulations to Peru for a great match.

Last edited by NdR619 - Pilipinas U21 at 3/4/2019 3:23:10 PM

I won't do anything intentionally to let you down, because this would be unfair and because I like you. Furthermore, I always play to win so clinching the 5-0 in the first round is my goal

However, all that said, Perù could potentially crunch in the last game and this is something that might complicate the equation

I have eyes everywhere!

I'm joking, I usually take a look now and then to foreign forums, but that's only empathy for a friend and his community. I'm glad at least I managed to defeat with a huge amount of points Israel to provide you a chance

If there's someone who could give a chance to Philippines in such a tough situation that's NdR so...best of luck! And give him good game shapes!

By the way, I could eventually take a gamble on Perù considering my position, but I have no intention to lose against them considering I'd take forward a loss ^^

Technically it's not over. If we beat Israel we can go on to the 2nd round at least.
Let me say that this season everything seems to run in the unlucky way. With cargado in we were leading and sinking shots with good percentage.
Cargado out for fouls after only 15 mins despite a foul avg in my league below 3 pf per game. They shot 35 free throws to 10...
Something really unpredictable like the bad luck vs Peru in a match we should have won.
That said, Spain in the end deserved the victory, unfortunately our shape in big men was really poor, with only tobes at 9 (but tobes is way worse than the others).
Spain had three big men between 800k and 1m dmi. Ours were only around 400k.
I am not that sad generally speaking because we are displaying good talented players and our goal is still to keep on growing. But obviously you know how competitive I am, losing matches in this way makes me a bit angry. 😔😡