Hey everyone.
So far 3 games played this season.
Game 1 was against India away from home where we lost to my surprise. However after looking at the play by play of the game it looks like the offense we played done as good as we could have done.
They simply used our weakness, ID. No matter the game or team, if you opponent shoots 60% from the field it's pretty damn hard to win that game.
Game 2 was a surprise win against Croatia at home, a much much stronger team than us, making up for the loss against India. We were lucky that our best Inside scorer Elís had proficient game shape for that game coming in strong for the Look Inside offense.
Game 3 against England, a much superior team. They would have won us no matter the tactics or players used in that game. Unfortunately they also played to our weakness of our inside defense and simply slaughtered us.
I really hope the other teams don't all notice this and play LI against us, if so I might be forced to play 2-3 defense every game and hope they have scouted us and play LI.
Now we have 5 games left this season.
Ecuador at home - Expectations for our team is to win that one
Bosnia away - loss
Greece at home - loss
Last two games are at Andorra away and Barbados at home.
A crunch time at home in the last game against Barbados should get us the win. However if we play "normal" away from home against Andorra to try and steal a win there we will have less enthusiasm for the Barbados game risking an upset.
So it will be a question of choosing between "high risk high reward" or "low risk low reward".
Once again, hopefully everyone is trying to watch their player's minutes so we can have some great game shape, it really matters in the NT battles as the players are often similarly good so the game shape can really set them apart.