Some Season 3 Round 14 match reports:
- ED-WAG: Tied after 3rd quarter, but too strong ED team for me to beat. Good tactics prediction might have helped demars in a way to a W - me not being able to restrict ED to less than 52,4% FG% was a contributing factor as well.
- LMS-HB: Another huge 4th quarter run, in this case for Latvian LMS. HB actually led the match before 4th, but ended up losing by 12. Threes and free throws favored LMS here... Also HB´s assists-to-turnovers ratio was "only" about 2,5 which is good value, but I mentioned that because I can recall many ridiculously good numbers/values from HB in that department. Very important match, as this lifts LMS to 8W-6L and drops HB to 9W-5L.
- LGM-EOS: LGM was truly dominating on glass in this one, 43 to 26 for LGM (and EOS won rebounds only 19-14 at the defensive glass). Both shot really well, 53+% FG.
- D-KKS: One of the finest fights/matches of the Season 3 RS (given the underdog position of D in this one), as D gave their all against very strong KKS team in their fight for last spot on spotlight (Playoffs), in which they fell slightly short this time around due to a loss on overtime. Big amount of offensive rebounds (15 and 22, respectively) and huge amount of blocks (12 and 14, so total of 26!) was seen in this 53 minute battle.
- HAD-WMO: while winner of this was clear, I just have to mention HAD´s threes: 19/29 which makes it 65,5%! Should they have shot at lower percentage (and should WMO gathered all defensive rebounds from those shots etc.), say at 9/29 at 31%, it would've (theoretically) been a 1 point match. (This of course is an if-game - we all know how difficult it's to win HAD and VPO, and for example to restrict them to 31% instead of 65,5%).
- SUM-FRE: while winner of this match was quite clear, I included this match in match report because it was an important one for SUM; they now hold one win advantage over EOS before last round (Round 15) or RS. SUM will face WMO, and EOS will face KKS in last Round... and if they would end up in equal number of wins-situation (2-way tie), then EOS would claim the last (12th) spot in Season 3 Playoffs.
Good luck to all for Round 15, and please don't forget to read my "3 or more teams tie"-rule addition post(s)!