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Oh Man ..... it´s always hupf´s fault

.... everything!

Last edited by hupfingatsch at 05/15/2019 06:45:23

This year's U21 Europe Championship Tournament is played in Bosnia and Herzegovina. In Round Robin we are placed in Group C with some difficult country's and some 'must-win' games.

Russia (19)
Currently 17 players selected, except for two all playing in Russia. In the Top-6 salary there are 5 C/PF, probably the will play inside. outstanding C (Eliseytsev) and PF (Grigoriev).

Latvia (27)
Another strong country is Latvia. The current roster are all +11k.-players, but not as high as Russia. More diverse with PG/C. Top-players are Bremeris (PG) and Zilaucis (C)

Portugal (36)
In the 3rd game we meet Portugal, another strong team with 4 +32k. C's. There focus will be to get there 224cm. 50k. C in position, Joao Oliveira.

Germany (3)
If that wasn't enough, we also meet Germany, currently world-rank 3. Just take a look at there roster, and you'll agree Germany is a mission impossible. I think Kara will have a hard time defending an 107k. C (Zeiper) or an 73k. C (Adams)

Iceland (74)
Finally, after 4 hard games we have a change to win. Iceland is our 5th opponent. But we shouldn't think this will be easy, as Iceland has a decent squad. Take for instance Astmundarson on C (26k.) and Theodorsson on PG (19k.) But in the end, this should be an win as we have the better roster.

Wales (93)
Wales is, in my opinion, the easiest opponent, as they don't have a 'star'player in there squad. This should be a win, but every other team will win also.

Switzerland (47)
I think we will fight for fifth place in this Pool with Switzerland. Then it's fun to play them last. Comparing the rosters, Switzerland has slightly higher salaries but mostly in the C-position. Should be a great, close game. Looking forward to it!


But first Russia !

Austria (61) - Russia (19) 82 - 113

Starting Line-up
PG Rümmele
SG Dimovic
SF Dober
PF Zangerle
C Kara
Princeton / 2-3 Zone

Like expected we didn't have a change against a strong team like Russia, even though we did manage to get more rebounds against their strong inside. But with FG 33 % (Russia 55%) and 17 TO our offence was dissapointing.

Next match will be against Latvia. They won there first match against Iceland (92-113). In Poule C Portugal leads, Germany 2nd and Austria is currently 6th (after 1 match)...

Latvija (29) - Austria (62) 76 - 88

Starting Line-up
PG Rümmele
SG Dimovic
SF Dober
PF Kara
C Zangerle
Motion / 1v1

If we had a chance of winning against a higher ranked team, it would be Latvija. And with a little bit more effort, we did it! Slight change in starting5; Kara and Zangerle changed position, hoping this would result in a bit more offensive power. Both grabbed 18 rbnds, and with 16 points Kara had a massive part in this win, so the change turned out good. But unstoppable was Rümmele on PG (30 pts.) Too bad in 1st Q Dober had to come of injured.

The other games in Pool C show no surprises. Germany, Portugal had easy wins, Russia had a difficult game against Switzerland, but managed to win in. We go up 1 place and are currently 5th.

Next up: Portugal. Strong inside, hope we can stop them.

Austria (56) - Portugal (36) 76 - 86

Starting Line-up
PG Rümmele
SG Dimovic
SF Dober
PF Kara
C Zangerle
Motion / 1v1

Because of the win against Latvija we gained 6 places on the WL, but that wouldn't help against an expected much stronger Portugal. But we only lost by 10 pts and we had a much stronger outside offense. The duo Kara/Zangerle is beginning to become a strong defensive couple inside. With a little bit of luck (and maybe some more effort) we could have won this.

Germany (3) - Austria (60) 50 - 0


Ai, totaly forgotten to set a line-up (and standard line-up), I'm sorry !!
Luckely this happened agains Germany, a game with an expected big loss…



Next week Iceland, a must-win game for us. Setting the line-up (and standard line-up) imidiatly

Summary of the final three games....

Iceland (74) - Austria (59) 97 - 80
This was a must-win game.... But we failed… Iceland had strong defensive ratings, and our offense wasn't good enough.

A game to forget..


Austria (62) - Wales (95) 117 - 56
Small change in the line-up made a lot of difference. Kempf on SF was hot with 28 pts. Strong outside offense against a weak defense of Wales made us double there score....


Austria (60) - Switzerland (50) 87 - 61
With a small chance to reach the 4th place, we had to win against Switzerland, and Latvia had to lose with big numbers of Portugal. We did our job. Both teams went all-in, but we have the Parrot-twins. Strong game of the duo Dober/Kempf (21 and 14 pts.) and in rebounding we also did a great job. And with Latvia loosing 119 - 67 to Portugal, we passed them on the ranking to finish 4th.


Recap
Finishing 4th before Latvia is a great result in this group. But overall there are some dissapointments. First of all i never should forget to make a line-up in the Germany-game. Secondly the game against Iceland we should have won. I might have chosen the wrong tactics, but that can happen. However, both wouldn't change the result of finishing 4th as 'best of the rest'

Now a few friendly's before we start with probably my last season....

Thanx all for traing and see you in S47