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Game 3: Azerbaijan - Scotland 70 - 99 [2 - 1]

We had a back to back victory against Azerbaijan. It was a must-win-game because the manager of their national team has not loged in for some weeks. So we were benefiting a lot from knowing their tactics.

I'm still not happy with the shape of the team. I had to nominate Matthew Clement (24357679) who was not on the list of the national team aspirants because the shape of the small guys is not good at the moment. Under normal circumstances I don't think that we will have good chances to win another game with only two players with shape 9.


Future of the team

We have six players with salaries over 85.000$. Four of them are 31 years old or older. So there has to be a generation change during the next seasons.

That are the all guys between 22 and 25 who I have on my focus now:

John Lawrence (29070483) - PG, 25

Mitchell Leisk (30333324) - PG, 24

Bobby Denune (32356713) - PG or SG, 22

Aengus Cullen (30333300) - PF, 24

Raymond Breslin (31305131) - PF, 23

Derek France (32356726) - PF, 22

Mark MacLamond (31770945) - C, 23

Thomas MacCaskill (32356672) - C or PF, 22

I hope that at least 2 of the big guys will reach 100.000$+. On the smaller positions I'm not sure. What we definitivly need are more managers who want to train a young player especially on PG, SG or SF. Every player with 100.000$+ and good shape will be a player of national team in the future!

Game 4: Scotland - Venezuela 82 - 118 [2 - 2]

Before the game started Airlie Foulis (17058563) became a part of the team because of a constantly good shape. Against a superior team from Venezuela I was gambling by playing outside offence and 2-3 zone defence. That tactics did not pay off so we lost the game clearly.

Nevertheless I hope to find the right tactics in next two games agianst superior teams. So maybe we could make a surprising victory.

Heads up - I'll be putting (19909248) on sale by end of this week, in case anyone wants to raise money for NT Center.

Game 5: India - Scotland 112 - 85 [2 - 3]

Before the game started Allen Peterkin (21390132) became a part of the team. He payed it back with the most points in the game, but we were not able to make a surprise.

The shape of some keyplayers is still not that good, so Jimmy MacNider (25402970), Mitchell Leisk (30333324) and Raymond Breslin (31305131) will join the team for the game against a strong team from Montenegro.

During the last weeks I had sadly not the time to write about our games in the consolation tournament, but I will do that now.


Game 6: Scotland - Montenegro 99 - 128 [2 - 4]

Against a superior team from Montenegro I was saving some enthusiam for the next game against Tunisia. During to shape trouble the guys who joined the team after the fourth and fifth game had to play and did their job at least in offence well.


Game 7: Scotland - Tunisia 80 - 90 [2 - 5]

This was the last game with realistic chances of winning. So we played will full enthusiam, but we were not able to equalize the homecourt advantage of Tunisia. This game showed me that we have serious problems if some keyplayers are in bad shape.


Game 8: Canada - Scotland 93 - 76 [2 - 6]

We played our last game with full enthusiam against a team of Canada which was already qualified for the next round and didn't make a surprising victory.

Last edited by Dr Freia Wurf-König at 4/3/2015 7:11:28 AM

Summary

We had two victories and six losses in the consolation tournament. That result is okay compared to the european qualifiers, but there was a good chance for a third victory against Tunisia, so I'm not fully satisified.

Our development in world ranking is okay. Last season we dropped from 90 to 94 and this season we raised to 82 at the moment.

Special thanks go to the managers of the following players who had a good shape during the consolation tournament:
Lawrence, Foulis, MacInroy, Dove, Clement, Breslin, Luke, MacWhirr, MacLammond, MacNider

The game shape of the other players was not constant enough in my eyes. So I will keep that in mind if I'm elected for a second term.

Offseason

We will do some pratice games against teams at our level.


Morocco - Scotland 107 - 106

We lost the game despite leading nearly all the time in the last minutes of the fourth quarter. I was testing 3-2 zone defence and made some personal conclusions for the future.