After four games without any defeat, Anwil Wloclawek found its killers and losing two of three friendly matches at the tournament in Czech city of Decin, finished the event at the third position. Anwil beat only Swedish Norrokiping Dolphins.
After four games without any defeat, Anwil Wloclawek found its killers and losing two of three friendly matches at the tournament in Czech city of Decin, finished the event at the third position. Anwil beat only Swedish Norrokiping Dolphins.
Corsley Edwards’ foul trouble and the great of Dainis Salenga and Gintaras Kadziulis were the main reasons why Anwil Wloclawek lost its first tournament game against Lithuanian Rudupis Prienai. American center was whistled twice at the beginning of the first quarter so the head coach Emir Mutapcic had to use Marshall Moses for a long time. 22-year-old power forward did his best and scored 16 points but it turned out to be too less to give a victory for the team. Anwil was very close to its opponent for thirty minutes but in the last part of the game had some problems with fatigue and finally lost 86:95.
The problems with shape revealed also in the second game in the Czech Republic but that time, the Wloclawek players were able to face the challenge thanks to great efficiency of Edwards who finished the game with 26 points and nine rebounds. Swedish Norrkoping Dolphins was leading by 19 points at the beginning of the second half but Edwards, Dardan Berisha (21 points and five rebs) and John Allen made the team come back to the game and threw some crucial punches in the fourth game, finally winning 83:78.
Because of the victory over Norrkoping, Anwil had the chances to complete the tournament at the first position but unfortunately nothing like that happened. The hosts BK Decin crashed the Wloclawek team 90:70 but they were given some help from the referees who whistled three technical fouls in the first three minutes of the game! Thanks to that, Decin were leading 17:2 at the very beginning and kept that margin until the last buzzer. Berisha scored 16 points while Allen, Moses and Louis Hinnant added 11.
Anwil Wloclawek – Rudupis Prienai 86:95 ( 21:21, 20:20, 24:21, 21:35)
(Hajrić 21, Moses 16, Berisha 14, Hinnant 9, Edwards 9, Allen 7, Majewski 5, Glabas 3, Wołoszyn 2, Nowakowski 2)
Anwil Wloclawek – Norrkoping Dolphins 83:78 (22:16, 12:24, 24:23, 25:15)
(Edwards 26, Berisha 21, Hinnant 15, Allen 10, Glabas 2, Hajrić 2, Majewski 2, Nowakowski 2, Wołoszyn 2, Moses 1)
Anwil Wloclawek – BK Decin 70:90 (20:27, 13:8, 17:29, 20:26)