Florian Koch had certainly imagined his little anniversary to be a little more enjoyable in advance – but what do you want to do if the roster stipulates that you have to play your 250th Bundesliga game with the defending champion and cup winner? As expected under the given conditions, Koch and his colleagues in the rump team of Bundesliga basketball team s.Oliver Wrzburg would actually have saved themselves the Sunday excursion to Alba Berlin – going there by train, back home by bus through the night can. Although the Baskets offered a very courageous performance over long distances in the 85:99 (45:53) defeat. And even had “a little fun”, as Jonas Weitzel later remarked. The 22-year-old center played an extraordinary game and in his eleventh Bundesliga encounter was the most accurate Wrzburger with 20 points, where he hit over half of his throws from the field (seven of 13), even sank a three and at the The free-throw line remained completely flawless in five attempts.
Anyone among the people of Wrzburg who had hoped before the jump ball that the piecework and the (travel) exertions of the last few weeks could somehow get stuck in the bones of the Berliners, could at least feel a little confirmed in the first half. The encounter against the Baskets was already the 34th competitive game this season for the Albatrosses, the tenth in the past 21 days, and it was not until very late on Friday evening that they won their eighth of 21 games in the Euroleague with 84:77 in Gasteiz, in which they will receive CSKA Moscow again on Wednesday and Real Madrid on Friday, before the next Bundesliga game against Vechta on Sunday. That’s how it goes all the time with the Berliners, which is why sensible force management is of course the order of the day.
It looked like this against the decimated Wrzburgers: 12: 7 after two and a half minutes, 14:14 after five minutes, 28:10 after ten. The fact that the difference in the actual performance of the two teams was not to be seen at the beginning and also not in the entire first half, neither on the floor nor on the statistics sheet, was primarily due to the Berliners’ fatigue and possibly a little arrogance Enter the Wrzburger, who went snotty and courageous to the evening work. “We had nothing to lose,” said Weitzel quite rightly.
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The baskets, who competed with seven players and were also registered for the farm team in the third-rate ProB last season, were even able to take the lead four times in the first half. After the break, of course, the home side loosened the handbrake a little, pressed the gas pedal a little and increased the pressure on the guests, especially in defense. The eight-point deficit at halftime quickly turned into 17, and in the course of the third section Alba was also ahead with 23 points and had finally decided the very brisk and thoroughly entertaining game.
Although the duel would have been a very unequal one if the Wrzburg team didn’t have to complain about the injury-related loss of their three top performers, Zach Smith (shoulder), Justin Sears (cruciate ligament) and, more recently, Brekkott Chapman (Achilles tendon). Of course, trainer Denis Wucherer had just two import players in his ranks in the 23-year-old Cameron Hunt and the 24-year-old US rookie Tyson Ward, as well as another player who measures over two meters in the 2.04 meter tall Weitzel. The Berliners have ten in their squad, and on Sunday at least seven of them were on the floor. So it was inherently quite hopeless from the start. In which the baskets are also happy about the first Bundesliga points of Julius Bhmer, who has just turned 19 years old (equal to ten) and the upper house debts of just 16-year-old Elijah Ndi from the youth team, who also made a basket were allowed to.
In the end there was a defeat with “only” 14 points difference, which despite everything can be a little encouraging. “I can’t complain today about how we played and fought for over 40 minutes and let the ball pass,” said Baskets coach Wucherer. “Given the circumstances, that was absolutely okay.” Even though there is not too much reason to hope to clinch the sixth win of the season in the next two games, and this optimism is certainly only harbored by the most die-hard Baskets fans: Next Saturday the Lower Franconians will be in Oldenburg, the following Wednesday (both 8.30 p.m.) Bayern Munich comes to the Main.
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