A little update.
This season started very well but sometimes... all goes suddenly on the opposite side.
Crna Gora 94 - 89 Belgium (after OT)
They crunch us and anticipated very well our strategy so that meaned an easy game surprisingly becoming a complicated one. Our boys wasn't far from the win but when luck want to change from our side, there are nothing you can do about it.
Our best player on the court was K. Legaye but our coach did'nt use him as much with only 17 minutes on the court (15pts - 70% FG - 4 Reb - 1 Ast). Our best rookie was R. Malou (2 Pts - 5 Reb - 3 Ast - 1 Blk in 18 minutes).
España 80 - 68 Belgium
Against one of the strongest nation with same effort level it was an impossible win, even with a good 2-3 zone on our side. We did our best and we can be proud to maintain Spain only at a rate of 29 / 76 FG. But Spain did better than us in defense, nothing we can do about it.
Our best player was the defensive job of De Sloovere: 12 pts - 20 Reb - 2 Ast - 1 Stl - 6 Blk and our best rookie was again R. Malou (2 pts - 3 Reb - 1 Ast - 1 Blk).
Belgium 81 - 96 Rep. Dominicana
We tried to save up enthousiasm for the rest of the tournament but it was in the end a bad idea espacialy considering that our best player M. Decant was injured. Furthermore, they played a 3-2 zone when we decided to go outside: worst case scenario.
Our best player? Honestly, all the team played badly... We can only say that M. Verschaeren did his job as a rookie.
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We ended the consolation with 5 wins and 3 losses which give us the 34th position. The best 32 goes to the next round. What an awful season! I'm sorry about that.
Furthermore, I wasn't at my home the last 4 days and without internet. I completly forgot to organise a friendly match last wedesday and when I was back home yesterday night it was already too late. That mean no friendly today and so, a lost in merchandising for team-owners. I realy appologies for that guys.
The good news is that it was the first time for years that I take a brake of that kind and it won't plan a new trip of that kind. So it will not happen again in the future...