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