Victory against Lithuania 80-76 & 11th place..
It was so KANON to win the last game and leave tournament with the good taste in our mouth. We wanted more than Lithuania and that counts alot. Proud of the girls..Long tournament is over. Wish you all the best!!!! and thank you.
jk
Italy 73 - 71 Sweden
1period: 17-20
2period: 23-16
3period: 14-22
4period: 19-13
We still continue to struggle with rotation. If there is help from weak side to the baseline, we dont come low from the top and so on.
Out of our 18 TO, 10 of them were forced by us. We struggled to score when there was no organized offense. In the 4th quater we had a poor execution against their 2X3 zone.
We won rebounding by 12. Only Maria could hit 3 pointers. I think that was one of the reasons they used their zone defense. We did a good job against their 1-2-2 full court press.. They slowed down our offense but we didnt turn ball away. I think it worked for them in away that it made us think too much.
Hanna, Dani, Bibbi och Maria had a good game.
jk
program for 17th july
Fiba changed schedule and we play 17.30 today against Italy.
New fight for 9-12th places and our goal is to be 9th.!
Sweden-Italy-Lithuania-Bulgaria. I look at it like 4 team tournament which is all about pride and trying to finnish as best as we can. I think it is very important that we are focused and giving all.
Lithuania plays Bulgaria after us 19.45...
Poland 84 - Sweden 79
To win the team has to have a productive defense and productive offense...Yesterday our quality in defense especially in the second quater was not good.
1period: 20-26 (lollo rock med 14 pts. in 8.19min)
2period: 31-13 (catastrof)
3period:19-20
4period: 14-20
2 quater: Lollo gets her third foul I think in the second minute of this quater. Our defense collapse. Polish player #10 makes 19pts in this quater: 2/2 2pts, 5/7 3pts.= was just unstoppable..She made unbelievalbe few shots, on few it looked like we had a hand up to her face but somehow she sanked them. They won reboundning in this quater 11 to 5. We just couldn't stopp their attacks, We tried man-to-man & 2x3 zone.
In summarizing, 2 quater killed us. I am very pleased with how our girsl were fighting until the end. Their determination was beautiful. The positive thing was just we tried and showed our hearts.
As Napoleon said: 'Power of the spirit is far superior to the power of the sword'
17th july we play Italien 15.15!... and than on 18th either Bulgaria or Lithuania. Plan is to go home with two more wins.
jk.
family.....
jk
Sweden 66 - Lithuania 75
Late raport about the game...As they say it is better later than never.
Tough loss. Alots of disappointments. Alots of thinking. No matter what , winning is about fighting-giving all we have, that is the key of learning. I think players wanted to win yesterday but we lacked discipline in making decisions and strenght to battle physically. It is tough up here and work put in prior coming here is fundamental in succeeding in EM.
1period: 14-13
2period: 12-18
3period: 28-26 (we scored ourselves but didnt stopp lithuanians from scoring)
4period:12-18
It was a team loss. We all are responsible for yersterday's actions. The key of our defeat was a bad shooting game from us. And allowing them to score 75 points.
Basketball is a team sport. 'The team that doen't want be beaten can't be beaten.' That what i said in the meeting this morning. At this moment it is all about us. No resting on the floor, no forcing shots, finding an open teammate and fighting for every possession. We have a new challenge, and I trully believe that we all have that attityde that we can meet tonight's challenge. Home team Poland. And how do we win? - giving all we have with discipline.
jk
#5
Torrens
DoggeABO!
Var hälsade! 
erkänn!
tjololoo
#4
#5 Montenegro
Rysk dansare
Sweden 70 vs Latvia 89
good morning,
It got so late yesterday and plus internet is overloaded in the evenings which makes it impossible to get connection.
1period: 18-22 ( we play pretty good)
2period: 16-27 (lose control)
3period: 11-24 (defense continues to bleed)
4period: 25-10 (happy with effort)
Alots of things to learn and correct. Things I am happy about:
1) 1 & 4 quaters-good discipline,good rotation & finnishing shots.
2) Girls cheered for each other during the whole game, especially 4th period, we were fighting and not giving up.
3) Lollo grabbing 9reb. & shooting 2/2 3pts. in 23min.
4) Dani stabile play. 12pts. & 4 reb. in 21min.
5) Ajnur was the biggest surprise of all. Came in for the first time in this championship and played with calm and smart. I am really happy about her performance. 16min: 11pts.
6) Martina had a pretty good shooting game and ended with 12pts. in 27min.
Today's plan is simple if we play like we played yesterday first 10min. we come out as the winners. Discipline and reaction in rotation must be. Alot more aggressive inside..We need to get some balls in. Run and look to attack..Keep the tempo and cherish the ball.
DEFENSE! DEFENSE! DEFENSE!
JK
#3
Petrovic
Strömberg
look alike #2
Steph
Bryantlollo
What about tonight's game?.....we have good chances if with our organized/tough/giving all defense we make latvians frustrated and especially if we succeed to take their pg out of the game. STICHES hurt that is how I want them to feel when we fight for every possession.
jk
dagens look alike
Skobel
Agnes/EM-fotografen
schedule of upcoming games & few photos
hello,
Shit how nervous I was following belarius-russia game yesterday evening. Execuse my language, price just was way to high. Today is a free day and looks like sun is shining.
Todays program is: 10.00 breakfast
14.00 lunch
16.40 buss for practise
17.00-18.00 practise
19.00 dinner.
No teori today, i want girls just to enjoy this day and prepare for evening practise. Dennis will scout Latvia and I and Axel will analyze our yesterday's game and see what details we have to improve and work offensively and defensively.
13 july: 19.45 Sweden - Latvia
14 july: 15.15 Sweden - Lithuania
15 july: 19.45 Poland - Sweden
16 july: free day
Yesterday evening few girls who didnt play or played little had a practise in the water with Cilla. I think they had a real fun.
Axel worked the hardest, I think:) 
What I wish up here more facilities to work out. There is no any stadium close to the hotel and you have to pay 5 euros per person in the main arena in order to lift weights. It should be for free, that is of course my opionion.
What is good about next round is that we will practise in the mornings 40 min. of basket since games are 19.45 and 15.15. Friday & saturday I cancelled practises because they were scheduled way to early 07.40 and 07.00. Both games we played that day was 13.00. I felt that sleep was more vital than practise.
jk
07.35
p.s. i dont know what i am doing up so early, but up here my eyes are wide open at 07.00. am i getting older?:)
Sweden 60 - France 70...
1period: 15-18 (very disciplined pick/roll defense)
2period: 13-21 (france dominated the boards)
3period: 14-16
4period: 18-15
We were fighting to the end..France had to keep their bast players on the floor. With Lollo in and little better shooting from the middle range, we could have won the game. By the way, Lollo is ok and I have been told she will be ready to play. She got hit with the elbow to her head, they had to rush her to the hospital to stop bleeding and take some röntgen.
I said before the game, that we are all married while we are here. And in all successful marriages, communication and clearity and understanding is vital. We just work hard one possession at the time and help each other! Defensively we had it. The reason France was successful scoring was their patience and intelligence of the game. Offensively I wanted us to work hard with patience to create a good shot. If we are open-we shoot, otherwise we run play with discipline. I though we did ok. Stefanie had a very good game with 21 pts. Dani/Jessica made some good shots for us. Hanna came in and gave us 5 reb. in 11 min.
Communication level was much higher. I am pleased and see the light for the rest of games. With better 2pt. % we can give us alot of good memories. Our marriage today is pretty solid and no frustrations! I want the girls to enjoy this championship and create friendships. Hard work and tiredness disapear with time, but pride stays forever.
jk
I just hope russia wins tonight...you never know.. thy should...but i am still nervous.
few photos...
beautiful arena ! openining ceremony.
Just before the first game against russia,
this is something funny,,,yesterday we had a game i B gym...(2.000 people can seat) and you wouldnt believe that this dog was laying the whole game under the table next to our bench!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Janne, Helen and I by the dinozaur design arena....so nice to have bigger family up here.
I think Lotta is very hungry...as just me..Funny thing was just before flying i exchanged money and thought poland has euros...so i got invitation of this lovely company to trie on the korv. victory against Belarius 72-70!
1period: 13-20 (win and looks like we control the game)
2period: 23-19 (defensively we lack trust and disciple)
3period: 19-17
4period: 15-16
The main focus for us was to start with defence: man to man and team rotation. In the meeting before the game I wanted girls to understand and believe how important is to have ownership. It gives us power and feeds with energy.
Somehow, the reason it was a close game is that we didnt trust our help side and did so many defensive possesions half way-helping half way ,rotating half way. They played not that stuctured basket, moving alot without the ball, cutting ,looking to attack and kick it out. We put them to FT line to often. We needed to have a direct response to the ball movement and see the ball and own player and help all the way.
Positive thing is that we won rebounding by 9.
Offensively, they double inside right away. We struggled to see and react to it, we didnt punished them enoug for that. Instead making the pass to an open person, we dribbled direct to trap. In the game of basketball it is all about adjustments and taking advantage. I think we could have been more aggressive playing pick/roll, attacking more from the screen.
Beata and Dani had a good performance which makes me happy. I think with this win we I HOPE can put aside pressure and just play hard and enjoy atmoshere and each other. It is just to stick together and work us up. Team is like a marriage, no matter what we stick together through the tought times and happy times!
jk
big lesson from russians. 43-81
1period: 8-24
2period: 17-20
3period: 4-22
4period: 14-15
tough. tough defeat. nightmare start. 1period: 10 TO, we stress in taking shots which causes 2/7 2pts and 1/4 3pts. Because of their tempo and 7 off.reb. they get almost twice more shots. Our frustration shows on both ends. In basketball is simple, if we dont score, opponent doesnt score. That wasnt the case. They are big, but more than half of their points has nothing to do with their size. It was about rotation, and their pick/roll game. We lacked discipline of all 5 players on the floor. They could swing the ball to easy or kick it inside. We didnt hedge as we discussed.
In the second quater, we used some 2X3 zone and it worked pretty good in moments. We got also more of our offense and cut down on TO. But still russians dominated inside. We tried to double on pick/roll but wasnt not quality work.
In the third period, our offense isnt working at all. We take-10 reb., russians-14reb. We have 4 TO, russians-2 TO.
We were just too passive in attacking, not aggressive in creating 1X1, not disciplined. We didnt look confident in our actions.
By loosing so big in the third quater left us no chance to catch up.. That is why I decided not to play Lollo, Stefanie, Martina, Dani and Bibbi. Very positive how Maria and Kathleen played. Kathleen made 2/2 3pts.-good timing and looked secured. Maria's first big debut in EM.
To conclude, they are a very good team, but our performance was far away to show how good players we are. I know we can do better. Mentally it was tough from the first minutes..Their dominance started with tip-off....Their is always tomorrow. Things happen. I know we are smart enough to learn and move on. One game doesnt determine who we are.
jk
Gdynia arrival/game day!
Congrats U18! Great win against Belgium! and good luck tomorrow!!!
Flight went well and to our delight we got practise time 19.00-20.00 yesterday in the main gym which seats 5,000 people. It is newly built, so nice and only 3km away from our hotel. Food is really good, and most important girls can eat as much as they want. Our hotel is located like 200m from the sea. You can see the tall building on the left-that is where we are staying.
We had practise this morning from 08.10-08.45. From the beginnig we were suppose to have three gyms for practises but something happened to gym C and practises got cut from 45min. to 35min. for all teams. We had a short teori pass before lunch and now girls are resting.
15.00 we meet Russia, one of the great powers. WE ARE READY.
JK.
