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[Round 1 - Day 2 - Group D] Estonia - Belgium

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[Round 1 - Day 2 - Group D] Estonia - Belgium

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Estonia had an underwhelming performance vs. the Czech while Belgium managed to keep up with the hosts Latvians for the greater part of the game. Should be a decent test for Belgium how do they respond playing against the underdog as they're ussualy the ones perceived as such, while a chance for Estonia to improve the impression they've made thus far.
 
Estonia looked very weak to me. There is no way they can stay close against any team in this group.
 
Estonia hasn't shown up to the game yet even though it started 20 minutes ago...
 
Lots of bad decision making, guards aren't that succesfull penetrating, you've got players inside going 1 on 1 with some "guard" instead of "post" moves and than when covered by a guard inside, there goes the pass out on the perimeter, unexplainable.
Belgium as I keep saying great combinatorics out there. In some of those timespans, that's exactly the way bball should theoreticaly be played. They're definately among the dark horses of this tournament.
 
The team has mentally collapsed, no confidence what-so-ever. They need to forget about the pressure and start playing their game - no way we are this bad.
 
Estonia imo has some incredible bad luck with the draw, imo Belgium, Czech, Ukraine are all very underated teams this tournament. People are considering Georgia, Poland, as there around 11th-12th team range, however it might as well be that the group D teams mentioned above are at the moment performing better.
This group will imo end up on the contrary of the most expectations out there.
 
I don't think the draw was unlucky. Ukraine, Czech Republic, Latvia - they are all teams that we have played against in recent years and we have either beaten them or at least played equally. Most of those players, who played then, are now present too. There must be something more to this.

Something is very wrong with this team, mentally speaking. They lack so much self-confidence and don't play their natural game. Maybe the media in Estonia put too much pressure and expectations on the team. Otherwise, this is unexplainable. I have never seen these guys play so bad - even the pre-Eurobasket games were better (close loss against Croatia, beating Latvia and the Netherlands, Iceland). I seriously cannot explain whats happening..
 
Who would have predicted that defensively oriented BEL would get the largest victory of the tournament so far. :cool:
 
Holy... what a game we had today.Top top performance by Van Rossom and Lojeski.This game was already over by the halftime.Tremendous defensive effort even though against a weak side.If we display the same mentality against Lithuania perhaps we could pull an upset
 
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