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.
Sweden-Tyskland 68-64
hi,
Tournament is ended and i think all of us looking forward to go home-reloud-and have fun in Polen. I look forward seeing few game in Telgehallen!
1period: 17:16
2period: 17:13
3period: 20:18
4period: 14:17
Scorers: Lollo-24, Stefanie-13, Dani-8, Hanna-7,Jessica-5, Maria-4 & Pernilla-4.
Martina & Bibbi didnt play because of their injuries. Martina hurt her groin, which requires few days of rest and Bibbi felt too much pain in her knee. So hopefully few days of rest will help their pain 'to dissapear'.
In the morning we had teori pass where girls had to draw offenses and than discuss in the groups.. I think it was very positive. It is important to know the movement of all 5 players and what we are looking exactly in specific offense. We had much better timing and more precis desicions.
However, since we focused few practises on the offence, we were not sharp on defense. I dont know what happened to our rules?..did we leave them hanging in the room when we left for the game??! we opened the middle way too many times, lack of rotation, letting their post players to catch the ball inside too easy and allowing them to turn to the middle. So, on wednesday we are back stressing defense and talking about its importance.
Rebounding: SWE 34 TYSK 30. The reason we struggled in the fourth quater is that we had 8 TO in that period. They put some full court pressure and we 'panicked' little. We lost few baskets because of their very aggressive man-to-man defense.. That gave them a big boost. But the reason we won the game was our strong fight under baskets. 15 rebounds in the last quater let us eliminate their second shot opportunities and few off.reb. gave us another run. Dani and Pernilla deserves alot of credit grabbing rebounds like never before!!
Total TO: 22.
In all of those three games we finnish mentally strong and that gives us a big advantage.
So interesting to coach our girls.
jurgita
win against italy 53-52
1period: 11-12
2period: 9 - 12
3 period: 12-15
4 period: 20-14
Best scorers: Lollo- 16, 7reb, Hanna- 10, 10 reb, Stefanie-9, 2 reb, Martina - 6,4reb, Dani-6,2reb, Jessica-2, 3reb, Maria- 2, 1reb, Anna - 2, 5reb. Pernialla-3 reb, Kathleen-1reb.
The biggest worry I have as a coach tonight, is the quality in our offense. That was the biggest obstacle tonight. We did have good moments but too often we lacked discipline, clearity, responsibility for our actions. The team is strong when all players on the floor knows what is expected and required from them. Lack of disciple causes turnovers that leads into frustration. Frustration takes energy and time and takes focus from more important things.
We hade 24 turnovers compare to italy's 14.
We dominated in rebounding. That is very positive. 42-24. Dennis was taking those stats..and i think he did very good job. I think the running game is a beauty in basketball and we stressed that before the game. I want us run and attack. We had 16 possibilities on the fast break, which gave us 10 points, compare to their 8 attack which led to 4 points.
What i am really glad about is that at the end we come strong mentally again. That shows our capability to make right decision and finnish strong. That could give us an advantage in EM.
I am happy we won and we had some great defensive stopps. I enjoy so much being with them and teaching them.
Because i believe in them - I demand alot. It is not ok to perform bellow our capabilities.
jurgita
p.s France beat Germany 77-53 tonight
gym
tonight game against Italy. Good luck U18 against Serbia! You do your job and we do ours:)
frankrike-sverige 59-60..:)
First, congrats to our ladies U18 - 2 victories - keep it up girls!
Dramatic victory I must say.
1 period: 13-23 ( very dominating start)
2 period: 16-14 (france dominated rebounding & got some points of their fast break)
3 Period: 18-10 (they continue their dominance in rebounding in both ends)
4 Period: 12-13
Best scorers: Lollo-17, Stefanie - 13, Dani- 9, Bibbi- 8, Martina & Jessica- 5, Maria- 3.
The reason we had such as drama is our lacking numbers in rebounding.
Frankrike: 21 offensive + 24 defensive = 45!
Sweden: 9 offensive + 15 defensive = 24.....i dont think comments needed.
We gave them so many opportunities for second, third and even fourth shot. unexceptable.
Because of their effort in crashing boards they created 12 points of their fast break.
We were weak tonight in boxing out and gave out presents..like second shot opportunities.
Hanna deserves a big applaud..She came in in the second half like a tiger and showed the way by grabbing one rebound after another. She was our leader when we really needed.
Their is no real protocol, so it is hard to know shot%. But I assume ours was better and that allowed us to stay in the game & win. Both teams in my eyes had appr. amount of TO. Dennis kept rebounding & fast break stats of both teams. In the second and third period, we rushed our shots, we lacked patience and discipline to make better decisions. If we dont score, they dont score - that didnt happened. France I think got more production of their big girls and some mismatches, most of their scoring came from inside or middle range.
When there was 6 min. left and i think we were down by 1 or 2 points we went to 2x3 zone and it was very effective for us. I think out of their 6 possessions against our zone, they scored once. Game was tight 22 sec. left and lollo made both FT. Frankrike takes timeout. We foul one of their big girl with 3 sec. left. She makes first and misses second. Sweden gets rebound and the rest is already history.
It is all about EFFORT! I think we won because of our players individual performance and making better decisions at the end, but I hope we have more tigers tomorrow ....
jurgita
practise/game schedule in caorle,italy
2 july 15.00-16.30 practise
3 july 10.00-11.00 practise 17.00 FRANCE - SWEDEN
4 july 12.00-13.00 practise 19.00 ITALY - SWEDEN
5 july 09.00-10.00 practise 17.00 SWEDEN - GERMANY
6 july home sweet home!
our arrival to italy, caorle
Our trip went well, and we where picked up! Our hotel Metropol is only like 200 meters from the beach.
We have our own pool, but no internet. Here they have very strick roles using and opening your account. I am writing from other hotel and it is not that cheap..so if i make mistakes,sorry!
This morning we went for a walk (me and cicilia)..such as nice vacation place.
We practise 15.00-16.30 in the afternoon. Girls got to swim and be in the sun for before lunch..
Tournament starts tomorrow....i cant wait.
jk.
