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Belgium 132 - 87 Cyprus

Big game from our NT, especially in the offensif compartement(the entire season our Offense has been very hot!) Where as a few seasons ago ( 4 to be exact) defense had won us a way to the european championship, now, it's our offense that is winning the games for us. With Finland only beating Cyprus by 46 points (we did 45 points against Azerbejan) then that means that Belgium will head into the possibly decisif game against Suomi with 12 points advantage and a one game lead ( which we'll hope to be able to increase to 2 with a bitt of luck). Kamiel De Keersmaecker mad his debut in our NT and what a debut it was!

Finalnd 123 - 77 Cyprus
No surprize here. We all knew Cyprus was out of enthousiasme after wasting it in the beginning of the season ( which would have given us a much great lead in point difference if they had played TIE against us like a normal team would have done if they were in their situation). So the question wasn't: is Finland going to win, but it was: By how much is Finaldn going to win... they won nby +46 points, which was one more than we did against Azerbejan. All in all, good news for us. Altho Finland still has the better roster and still is favorite to get the second spot...

Romania 119-107 Netherlands

i wouldn't count the Dutch out. They got a 'nasty' habit of sticking around.

Well, i think it's fair to say that you can count the dutch out now. No matter how things go from here on out, their isn't a possibility where all teams would end up with a 4-3 record, so the Dutch are out of contension. 2 seasons ago, it was Macedonia who beat them, and now it's Romania, who hereby take revenge for the loss 2 seasons ago ( the season in which they ended up above the netherlands) Netherlands really are unlucky tho in this campaign... (and we've been pretty fortunate till now)

Italy - 134 - 98 Norway
Once again, Italy beats down yet another opponent... They mlade soem insane ratings in outside attack, and i'm wondering if anyone can match their strength other than the French, the Polish and maybe the Spanish...

hi guys,

thank you for your hard work with this national squad. sorry about deseure GS, i did not have much time to put up with buzzerbeater these past 2 weeks. but i'll do my best to get hm back to shape. NT next 3 games are crucial, especially next week, and i hope we'll go through ;)

i was starting to wonder what was going on with Deseure... From the guy being in GS9 for the entire season ( except for 3 weeks) he's been in a 'horrible' shape this season so far ;)

btw guy's, Dorchain 94 minutes, and De Keersmaecker 106 minutes, sorry guy's, but that isn't acceptable. If you got NT players on your roster, you got to limit their minutes to something below 80. De Keersmacker had made the NT for being in great shape the previous weeks. First thing that happens when he finally makes the team ==> he goes for 106 mintues a week. I hope it won't happen often, but this is really painfully!

Good news tho is that Dorchain, despite his age, is still being trained and is still improving :D

But then again, let's await the GS update and see how things go. We'll need a good GS if we have any hopes of beating Finland!

BOOOOOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

We've won against Suomi ( Finland)

i'll make a resume tomorrow about the other games, but this is a VERY big win for us! Big plays from Cosimo, Fleeton( especially in the 4th Q, in the other 3 Q's he was invisible), and ofcourse, from who else than Vercaigne, who got the game winning shot off at the buzzer ( + a big 3 when we were being lead by 5 points aswell!)

Anyhow, more on that tomorrow or on wednesday. I've got to go to a reunion, and tomorrow, everyone should be in Kontich to cheer on our national Ladies hockey team, who are attempting to qualify for the Olympic games in London!

I won't be able to go to Kontich tomorrow, but nevertheless, congrats on this very important win! Romania and Suomi are now 2 GB... Qualification is just around the corner now!

Hi all, after my very good day yesterday and an Umpire reuinon, here is what has happened at the National Team lvl yesterday:

România 105 - 118 Italia
After having lost to Norway earlier, Romania knew that they'd have to take some risks if they were to keep their hopes up for qualifying for the european championship ( which would be a first in their history!)However Italy was much to strong and still beat them pretty easy. They just ended up wasting some precious enthousiasme and now face the extremely difficult task of having to beat both Belgium and Suomi and pray that their goal average(+12) will somehow get them above Belgium(+83) and Sumoi (+67)

Belgium 93 - 91 Suomi
The match of the day and the result might have ended the suspension of the qualifier (IF Romania beats Suomi next monday, then it's all over!). Big big big game from our boy's and altho our GS wasn't at it's best like it was against the Netherlands, we did well never the less. Cosimo had a big game from Q1 to Q3, going 9-10 from the field and pulling down 9 Rbs and blocking 2 shots in just 16 minutes of work! And Fleeton had a huge 4th Q, getting some crucial offensif rebounds and putting the ball back up and in to keep Belgium somewhat close to Finland. But the biggest preformance came from Vercaigne, who nailed his 2nd 3point shot to cut the lead down to 2 with 188 seconds left on the clock. He also made the all important Buzzerbeater at the end of the game, giving Belgium a much needed win and a very good position to qualify ourselves for the next round.

Azərbaycan 108 - 96 Nederland
The big surprize of the evening! Azerbejan clearly has got a grudge against the Netherlands, why would they otherwise play CT against them? This ends all dreams for the Netherlands about possible qualification with a 4-3 record ( it already had become a very long shot, but this is the dagger). You got to feel for the Netherlands headcoach. 2 seasons ago, things took a turn for the worst with some unlucky games against them ( Makedonija and Russia...) and now they started well, with a wing against Suomi, but haven't been able to beat anyone else ever since...

Cyprus 103 - 130 Norge
Logic score, Cyprus is one of the weaker teams of this pool and Norway just took care of bussiness. Norway is actually heading for the 4th spot as it stands now, depending on if Romania can still secure a win somewhere or not...

Italy 112 - 96 Belgium
a logic loss against one of the great BB Nt teams. They nearly always are in contension for the world cup, so no shame here. I'm pretty impressed that we managed to keep the score so close. With some key players out of shape, this is a pretty good result.

Romania 129 - 111 Suomi
I wasn't expecting Romania to actually pull it off even if they used their CT against Suomi. And i especially didn't expect Suomi to play TIE! But then again, 3 losses would put them out of contension for the second spot. But thanks to this, the chances of Belgium making the next round have greatly improved! But more about that later on. One thing is sure: Suomi have been knocked out of contension for the 2nd spot, which is a great relief for Belgium. Cause Suomi in CT against Italy in TIE, they could win that game. had they won tonite, then we would have been forced to go all out against Romania and be sure to win our next game to go to the next round. And you got to feel for Suomi. They lose a couple of Bigs ( 300K ones!) so they were weakened. And once again, playing 2-3 is a real risk, as is shown in this game. If suomi had played Man to man, they probably would have won this game, despite the Ct from Romania...

Netherlands 123 - 95 Cyprus
a logical defeat for Cyprus. Netherlands get a win and will try and salvage whatever ranking they can on the NT rankings list to avoid a super heavy pool in 2 seasons from now. for the second season in a row, things didn't turn out in their favor. Sometimes you got to be lucky, and they just have had bad luck so far... But BB usually is a fair game, so some day, the sun will shine again for them (after this dreadfull period of rain)! And i'd hate to face them then, cause they really do have a good team ( you can't defeat Suomi on equal power if you don't have some luck and a pretty good team. And the Netherlands have got a better team than us in general. We just got a few exceptional players that can cause some mismatches that works very much in our favor). I hope that they'll win their last game too ( just because they are our northern neighbours. They can be really enjoyable when they want to, and i've often seen alot of humor in their chat during the games).

norway 108 - 91 Azerbejan
No surprise here. Altho the Azerbejan coach wasted some enthousiasme. not sure why he did so, considering that next week he's got a game against Cyprus which will decide who ends last in this pool...




As for next NT game:

We know that:
1st place (and the first ticket) will be going to Italy. Nobody can jump over them, not even on goal average (unless they lose by 50 points to Suomi and we were to win by 50 points of Romania... which isn't going to happen)

in contension for the second place are Belgium and Romania. If Belgium doesn't lose by more than 18 points from Romania, then Belgium will go on to the next round. Futhermore, Romania has used up alot of their enthousiasme, where as ours is still at our highest possible lvl. This means that Belgium has a great advantage against Romania. However, Romania doesn't have anything to lose anymore, so they will play CT against Belgium. But let's to talk about losing. Belgium will be playing to win the game. No need to take any unnecessairy risks when qualification for the next round is within our grasp.

Netherlands, Suomi, Norway, Azerbejan and Cyprus are out of contension for the second spot that would qualify the team to move onto the european championship and thus will play for the best possible rankings in their last games.

On to next week, and let us hope that we will emerge victorious, so that we can move onto the next round with a solid record!

Revo

congratulations !...

Sweet redemption.

i'll post more info tomorrow. We're going to the european cup! HELL YEAH!

gratz.

no matter what happens in the tournament, we can already be proud of the achievements of the Belgian staff