England 73-60 Germany
We got the win we needed in this game, but it came at the cost of a CT. Really strong defensively to hold them to only 60 points, especially given how strong their bigs guys are. I went with the 2-3 as they were clearly very strong inside and it paid off. Great job by Wulf and Johnston to clean up the boards after getting the stops.
Offensively our game didn't go as expected as it was our bigs taking all the shots. I had expected a mismatch at SF, but Fawaz struggled to score still. I thought it would have been Bondi and Ingram doing most of the damage but our of nowhere Crombie came off the bench and lit up the 1st quarter. The +/- scores show it was really our bench doing the damage against them which is really promising to see our backups perform so well.
The win keeps us in with an outside chance of qualifiying still, which is all I wanted from the game. We now move on to a much easy game against our neighbours Wales. We're going to need to get a big win to boost our PD, so hopefully we can get it.