DU20 2009

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