Hi everyone,
I was busy the last weeks, so I had no time writing about our results in the european qualifiers.
We lost the first 4 games against stronger opponents (Lithuania, Portugal, Slovakia, Netherlands). The game against Portugal was the closest. We lost only by 8. There was maybe a little chance for winning this game by playing with more effort, but the plan was to save enthusiasm.
So yesterday we made ourselves a early x-mas present. We had a win 119-102 against Montenegro
(35246). I had speculated the oppenents coach will make a prediction that we were playing inside offence, so I played motion offence though having no PG for that, but Lawrence scored a career-high 34 points. I'm really happy.
There are still two games to play. Azerbaijan has a weaker roster, so I hope that we will have the realistic 2-5 at the end of the european qualifiers.
I would like so say something to the dicussion the u21 coach started in the thread of the last season. I write a massage to every manager at the beginning of the season. Usually 2 or 3 mangers write back. I know that many of them do not have time for writing. But I have the feeling that some of them take my hints for their players though writing not back. So maybe you write a massage to the managers with U21 players with concret wishes for their trainees.