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The European U21 Championship Tournament - Season 38

We are in Pool A. We are currently nr. 60 on the Worldrank. Our opponents will be:

Bosnia i Hercegovina (16)
Strong, wide roster with no exceptional players. Home advantage, as the tournament is played in Bosnia i Hercegovina.

Suomi / Finland (22)
Maybe the best team in the pool, have two good C's. (Currently 1 is listed)

Hrvatska / Croatia (23)
It looks like Croatia has a dip in their squad, isn't as good as it used to be. Gives us opportunities.
Or is their squad not yet complete ?

The Netherlands (40)
The game i look forward to. In my opinion even squads, can be fun. As i have a player in the dutch U21, i might get some 'inside information'.....

Sweden (39)
Not as strong as The Netherlands or Croatia, but still a dangerous team, which we can loose easily.

Norway (62)
Like Sweden, don't underestimate the Scandinavian teams....

Armenia (97)
Definitely the weaker team in the Pool....


Looking at this Pool i think Finland and Bosnia i Hercegovina will compete for the top-2.
Austria must battle with Croatia, Sweden and The Netherlands for 3. place....

Interesting and challenging Pool.

Yes! Very good work with our U21-NT!

Please go on like this ;-)

*** Austria U21 (60) - Finland U21 (22) 110-104

This tournament our first match was against one of the top countries in the pool, Finland.
Finland has got a strong roster, the best players being C's, but with strong PG and SG to feed them.

Analysing this roster and their last match, Finland wil probably play Inside. Therefore our defense
2-3 Zone, with an Inside Focus. Our offensive strategy motion.

With a little bit more effort, we've beaten Finland ! Great first result !

With a strong defense we've stopped their C and PF in scoring, allthough in rebounding we were weak,
something i've noticed also in the last few games. Buchegger is the only rebounder in the squad (14 this game).

Our offense paid of, Scheeberger on SF (34 pts) ans Weber (29 pts) were strong.

Next opponent: Croatia (23), who have beaten Norway today.

Congrats! Good Job

Hi everyone,

I'm still here. Bit busy with work / study / kids, so i didn't have time to write the game-reviews, i'd rather spend my time on scouting the opponents. Short recap of last season (s38).

In a pool of 8 we've won 4 out of 7 matches. This ranked as an 4th place, due to a worse Diff. than Suomi.
We started out great against Suomi, with an unexpected win. But next 3 matches we lost, without a change against Hrvatska and Bosna i Hercegovina. Against Holland we also lost due to a bad tactical guess of me.
The final 3 matches were no problem, won them all.

We had a bid of bad luck that our top-center Buchegger was transferred at the start of last season and his new managers played him full-time, what means bad GS. This didn't help in our diff.

We did close the season with a nice win against Bosna i Hercegovina, current nr. 8 of the U21 WR

At the end of the season we progressed from WR61 to WR48

Finaly, Kevin Weber made it to the all-time U21 Listing for players with most games played. Nice job, Kevin !!!

Still very motivated, next post will be next-seasons roster.

Rovali



Last edited by Rovali at 6/27/2017 4:44:10 PM