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4 wins from 4! Another strong win against a weak team. England shot 50.5% from the field and won the rebounding battle 65-35 in a comfortable win. Not as efficient as the previous game but shooting over 50% is still really good, especially holding Marla to only 34.1% shooting. Too many turnovers and fouls for my liking but a 44 point win with less effort is good enough for me.

Francis Padilla had a monster 25 point, 12 rebound performance in only 24 mins. The bench also impressed as Kevin Aronberg, Fod Pongracz and Sivvappalam Chandra had 18, 17 and 13 point respectively.

Now we move on to 3 huge games as the top 3 teams in the group face each other over the last 3 games. Romania up next for us which will be an interesting challenge followed by Belgium. If we win both of those we will guarantee qualification before Italy which is what I’m aiming for.

Georgia have been really unlucky with their schedule. They've faced the current top 4 teams in the group which if they were trying to compete to qualify is always difficult to build enthusiasm. Other than a big loss to Italy, they've had close games so have been unlucky in that sense as well.

The last 3 games in our group are tough, we play both teams at 3-1 and Italy at 4-0. We win 3 games we win the group, win 2 of those games and we qualify, win 1 and it comes down to PD, win 0 and that's season over. Still a lot to play for.

Really appreciate the updates and the regulary summary mate, thank you!

England make it 5-0 following a 99-84 victory over Romania, moving within 1 game of qualification. Amarsari Singh had a strong first half scoring 13 of his 17 points. Francis Padilla then showed his dominance in the 2nd half as he went on to score 12 points in the half. Padilla finished with another solid stat line of 18 points, 13 rebounds and 3 blocks. Jonathan Hendriks had a quietly impressive all round performance with 16 points, 5 rebounds and 7 assists on 5-7 shooting. Despite these great performances , it was a surprising 19 points off the bench from Fod Pongracz that top scored. He was very shot happy with 17 shots in 21 mins, but it proved vital in the game.

England face a tough Belgium side next week, where a win would guarantee qualification with 1 game to spare.

Good start bud!
Keep It up!!

Last edited by Vycka at 2/22/2022 2:15:03 AM

2 tough games to go but very happy with how the season is going!

You're not doing too bad yourself, 4-1 so far. Hopefully you can finish the job and qualify as well!

Well… I messed up.

A game that I knew was going to be difficult and key in our quest for qualification. We didn’t have the best of game shapes, and Belgium got an almost perfect game shape update making things even tougher. Despite that, I felt we had the better team on paper and I believed we had enough enthusiasm advantage to be able to play with less effort and still win and give us a better chance at wins in the next round. And now it’s looking unlikely for us to even qualify… lesson learnt, just make sure we qualify. With Germany demolishing Andorra I put them as favourites to qualify as they face Georgia in their final game as we have to face Italy.

As for the Belgium game, Goodhew finally showed how good he could have been with a dominant 21 point, 15 rebound performance. Hendriks and Singh also had solid scoring outputs with 15 and 14 points respectively. Despite a getting 10 more offensive rebounds than Belgium, poor free throw shooting cost us.

Obviously hindsight is a wonderful thing, and looking back I should have used more effort but I can’t change that now and before the game I had full confidence in the team to get the win.

Last edited by arrowspg5 at 3/1/2022 3:30:44 AM