Disappointing: Albania Extracted from Austria to World Cup preliminaries

The deepest loss of the preliminary round of the World Cup occurred yesterday in Vienna, while the Reds have been beaten by 34 different pointsW.

Austria ▪ Albania 97-63
(33-19, 15-18, 28-14, 21-12)

Austria: Poll (18), Ogunsipe (10), Mahalbashic (25), Laneger, Klepeisz (10)/Shrejner (8), Lamesic (5)), Rados (9), Danek (4), Kramer, Guti, Douvier (8) Coach: K. Chemzura

Albania: Berdica (3), Hysenagoli (6), Shima (13), Dusa, Mozer (20)/ Strazimiri, Mercaj, Kovac, Vaqarri, Juzel, Bushati (14), Aaron (7) Coach: A. Constantineides

Judges: S. Lazarin (Italy), S. Kucera (Cech Republic), M. Weendrick (Eston)

Austria in men's basketball has broken Albania, while the qualifications for the next round of World Cup Eliminators “Kin 201918x1> have remained a dream of reds.

Because with this third defeat in Vienna, the deepest of the preliminary round, when we were once defeated by Austria in Tirana with 28 points apart, as well as the Netherlands in Amsterdam with 14 points, we sealed the end of the group.

Even if we are going to count and lose in friendly, two with Kosovo, two with Armenia and one Kazakhstan, then there are eight consecutive defeats of the Kostantinide Reds, which have been more than disappointing. A small national thought that did very little, while others have found it easier to tread on.

And so it was, and yesterday in Vienna, and ours, beyond any worldly moment, left no good signs. The last match with the Netherlands, which will be played Saturday 20:30 in the “Feti Borova”, is now only worthy of statistics.

Because adult basketball this year went parallel to all the other nationals of the ages, which is either bad or good, from two to three wins. But how can this male being translated when the claims were greater? This is a question that the Albanian Basketball Federation must answer, the more that and Kostantinide can't ask “Uikk” a semi-national...

Match

Our guys have started the fight well, because a Mozer tripler gave us a 2-3 advantage. Then a double-crossing Shima is equal to 5-5.

But that's all, because ours, even because of defence errors, leave a lot of room, so that Austria is cut to 13-5. And then there's all the comfort to close the first period 33-19.

Two three-point Bushat and we've narrowed to 33-25. We win the second period 15-18, but on vacation Austria leads 48-37.

And then what has been labeled as the third perioda, which the natives have won 28-14 and lead 76-51. The last 21-12 perioda and Austria have won 97-63, while ours have been forced to surrender unconditionally, showing nothing.