Our Sunday and game preparation was a little bit different today. We were watching the sights of the city Gmunden. It is a wonderful city. I do really love the fresh and natural air.Everybody seemed a little bit rusty today. Our OT loss against Wels did cost us a lot of energy. But we wanted to beat Gmunden this time. We played them already in the preseason and suffered a horrible 20-point deficit loss. This shouldn`t happen this time. We were starting very well and the game was always tied. Everybody did a great job.

We do really have an offensive powerhouse. Chris, Cole and Rocky do really now how to put points on the scoreboard. The roster of Gmunden is very old. Deteri Mayes is for example 35 years old and known as the Austrian legend. He had a great game. He is a dead eye shooter and was hurting us a lot. I think I did an excellent job while I was on the court. Mayes did beat me over the middle one time and did hit an difficult step back jumper. I mean I cannot complain. He finished the game with 28 points. His knowledge and his routine is impressive. He is just using his brain. Just like Boyle. He knows when to cut, how to cut etc…

The game was very close. But the refs were very hard on us. Gmunden was really hacking down low. Fortunately they were not able to take advantage of it. This game was really a thriller. So many lead changes undescribeable. But it is always hard to win a close game on the road with the whole gym agaisnt us. Gmunden was able to take the lead in the fourth. We were trailing them by maybe one or two points for the rest of the game. Some key calls and key turnovers did cost us the game and we lost by 8. Gave up 97 points again. We are a good defensive team thou. We just need to be more aggressive and physical in the paint. Mike was or is very happy with our road trip. We learned and gained a lot experience while we were in Austria. We had a nice team dinner at an Austrian restaurant. We were able to watch the first quarter of the European Championship Final game. Spain was really killing Serbia. The whole team was making fun of Nemo Kekic and Darko Jukic a little bit. They were really thinking that Serbia could win this game. Well they lost some of their money to Coleman and Christian, because they were betting them that Serbia will win.