Agreed, their starting 5 had 8 - 8 - 9 - 9 - 9 GS, not far from ours, and one of them is 20yo, so likely much better than his salary suggest (Avendano, already 12.5k salary at 20).
All 5 of them seems really good so I don't think any isolation or patient could have work to exploit a lack of skill in a position (it rarely does with U21/NT teams IMHO)
Using the same enthusiasm + a more team-oriented strategy could have leveled things out a bit, but it would have been a tough game nonetheless.
The coach definitely underestimated them =) But as I said earlier it happens, learn, adapt and move forward
Edit: regarding enth, if they had lost this game, their season was over, so there was no need to save enthusiasm on their side. Thanks to that win they remain in contention for the 3rd place (as do we). Except now they got an easy game + a tough one when we have 2 tough one left.
Time to prepare next year consolation tournament =)
Last edited by Fwinns at 8/18/2020 8:52:15 PM