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The end of last week changed the world, now the flag of my homeland will be associated with violence for a long time. It is especially hard to see discrimination against ordinary people, bloggers, athletes. Nevertheless, I continue to love my country. We will try to believe in the best.
According to the game: France is a few goals stronger than us. I was surprised by the choice of a slow tempo, but the internal emphasis from them looks logical. Of the good points, we can highlight a large number of earned free throws and the implementation.
Last week upgrades: MacShimes +1, Blair +1.
Barbados is ahead.
Peace!

Good words! Yes, this war is hard to believe and yet it is there. I am pretty sure that a lot of your countrymen aren't in favour of the war. And I will associate this war with one face in particular ... not so much the flag. Let's hope this will be over soon. And not get even bloodier and more horrifying than it already is ...

The match against Barbados turned out well for us. Our team is still stronger. They played MOTS against our normal, besides, I didn't guess the tempo and Spens was injured at the 13th minute. Nevertheless, we made a decisive breakthrough in the second quarter, and brought the match to victory without nerves. We had a surprisingly small number of assists in the game: only 7 for 35 accurate shots. The rebounding was won.
MacShimes continues to please, good matches from Lyle, Boyd, Willey.
Upgrades: Boyd +1, Blair +1. It is [team=XXX] pity that the ceiling of Blair is not very high.
The last match of the tournament is ahead for us, with Austria.

It was not possible to impose the struggle of the Austrian national team in the last match of the Consolidation tournament. Our 3-2 zone didn't play very well against the opponent's internal tactics. The attack didn't perform well either. But we have as many as 20 assists for 29 accurate shots.
However, the tournament is now over. We also had some pretty good matches, we could have blown the score 4-4. We are preparing for the European Championship next season.
Last week 2 upgrades: Lyle +1, Boyd +1.

It was not possible to impose the struggle of the Austrian national team in the last match of the Consolidation tournament. Our 3-2 zone didn't play very well against the opponent's internal tactics. The attack didn't perform well either. But we have as many as 20 assists for 29 accurate shots.
However, the tournament is now over. We also had some pretty good matches, we could have blown the score 4-4. We are preparing for the European Championship next season.
Last week 2 upgrades: Lyle +1, Boyd +1.

I haven't counted, but it seems, Lyle and Boyd are progressing well, same with MacShimes. You don't have to tell me publicly how many TSP those players have got, but if it's ok, it'd like to get a quick info via BB-Mail.

Continue the good work! I hope you'll get re-elected!

Let's summarize the statistical results of the NT players in the official matches of this season:
T. MacArthur - 3 matches, 42 min, FG 7-18, 3FG 2-7, FT 2-2
18 pts, 5 reb, 6 ast, 0 stl, 0 blk, 2 to, 0 pf
± -23, rating average 16
S. Spens - 7 matches, 190 min, FG 25-71, 3FG 0-6, FT 11-15
55 pts, 66 reb, 17 ast, 2 stl, 1 blk, 8 to, 11 pf
± -55, rating average 17
P. Lyle - 7 matches, 247 min, FG 61-152, 3FG 6-39, FT 18-22
146 pts, 25 reb, 19 ast, 5 stl, 0 blk, 7 to, 7 pf
± -53, rating average 17,64
M. MacLamond - 2 matches, 34 min, FG 9-21, 3FG 0-5, FT 8-8
26 pts, 8 reb, 2 ast, 0 stl, 0 blk, 0 to, 1 pf
± -3, rating average 15,5
L. Willey - 6 matches, 156 min, FG 27-72, 3FG 10-26, FT 10-14
74 pts, 32 reb, 14 ast, 2 stl, 0 blk, 5 to, 8 pf
± -28, rating average 16
L. Corbet - 3 matches, 43 min, FG 5-17, 3FG 2-9, FT 4-6
16 pts, 2 reb, 4 ast, 0 stl, 0 blk, 4 to, 3 pf
± -29, rating average 14,67
L. Blair - 6 matches, 73 min, FG 7-22, 3FG 2-5, FT 3-4
19 pts, 17 reb, 5 ast, 1 stl, 0 blk, 1 to, 6 pf
± +25, rating average 13,83
L. Barrie - 6 matches, 130 min, FG 12-41, 3FG 0-4, FT 8-11
32 pts, 38 reb, 9 ast, 1 stl, 1 blk, 8 to, 13 pf
± -18, rating average 15,75
K. Duffy - 2 matches, 20 min, FG 2-8, 3FG 0-0, FT 0-0
4 pts, 2 reb, 2 ast, 1 stl, 0 blk, 0 to, 1 pf
± -4, rating average 14,75
J. Murchie - 1 matches, 13 min, FG 1-3, 3FG 0-0, FT 0-0
2 pts, 3 reb, 0 ast, 1 stl, 1 blk, 0 to, 0 pf
± +15, rating average 13,5
J. MacKersey - 7 matches, 172 min, FG 8-30, 3FG 0-4, FT 3-4
19 pts, 46 reb, 8 ast, 1 stl, 4 blk, 15 to, 7 pf
± -66, rating average 14,64
J. Łosiak - 7 matches, 225 min, FG 28-61, 3FG 3-7, FT 10-12
69 pts, 58 reb, 5 ast, 1 stl, 2 blk, 13 to, 2 pf
± -57, rating average 15,5
F. Fitchy - 5 matches, 108 min, FG 8-38, 3FG 0-11, FT 13-13
29 pts, 15 reb, 11 ast, 2 stl, 0 blk, 0 to, 13 pf
± -59, rating average 16,1
A. Boyd - 8 matches, 267 min, FG 40-95, 3FG 7-21, FT 19-22
106 pts, 51 reb, 29 ast, 6 stl, 1 blk, 6 to, 10 pf
± -47, rating average 15,12
B. Baillie - 3 matches, 33 min, FG 3-11, 3FG 2-4, FT 2-2
10 pts, 6 reb, 0 ast, 0 stl, 0 blk, 2 to, 3 pf
± 0, rating average 17
B. MacShimes - 7 matches, 164 min, FG 33-69, 3FG 8-20, FT 14-24
88 pts, 10 reb, 7 ast, 3 stl, 2 blk, 6 to, 3 pf
± -46, rating average 15

We conducted a scrimmage with Paraguay. Both coaches played fast tactics, the match turned out to be fun and equal. We lost in overtime, but it's not that important. It can be noted that bigmen played well in attack and Boyd collected a triple-double. Everything is not so good in defense, the PF position is our weak point in defense. The game with Cyprus is ahead.
This week was the first when no one received the basic skills upgrades, only stamina and FT.

Since stamina will give a boost to the overall performance of a player, that's not the worst thing to read. Good job, the wins will start to come more regularly - and the players are still not at their peak.

This week we played scrimmage with the Cyprus team. The opponent is clearly stronger than us, but we looked good in the match, apparently Cyprus does not have a very high enthusiasm. Also this week, a talented guy, Alpin Lochiel, was called up to the team. We will slowly let him approach the team. Of course, his skills are not yet enough to produce in official matches, but everything is still ahead.
Unfortunately, for the second week we have not received upgrades in the team. I hope that there will be no more such episodes in the future.
Ahead of the match with Macedonia

This week we played a match against Macedonia. The result was very similar to the previous match, we scored 90 points again, although we already used external tactics instead of internal. Although the right choice of tactics in our position does not give much. Against strong teams, we usually have no more than 40% of the implementation, whatever I choose. For us, to a greater extent, the effectiveness of the attack is determined by the number of FT attempts, but this is also extremely not a constant indicator.
Here you need to think about defensive tactics, perhaps you should use zone defenses more often. Theoretically, zone protection should work better, but in practice it is far from a fact.
Last week we received upgrades: Boyd +1, Blair +1.
The next match is with Luxembourg.

Yesterday we played a match with Luxembourg. The opponent is about our level, although our roster is a little more powerful and smoother. As a result, we won away without any problems. I decided to play external isolation in the attack. I liked the distribution of throws and the implementation. I wonder how this tactic will be able to show itself against stronger opponents.
It's also an interesting fact that Luxembourg played two scrimmages at the same time, with us and Costa Rica! They lost both matches, apparently it's hard for the players to play two matches at once =) Obviously, there was a bug in the game.
Last week there were upgrades: Boyd+1, MacShimes +1. Future candidates for the team are also developing: MacNeilly +2, Lawson +2, Lochiel +1