When the hardworking helpers dismantled the electrical system of the basket system and rolled up the many cables around the field, Joshua Obiesie sat next to the stretching Perry Jones on one of these gymnastic rollers and looked into nowhere with a rather vacant look. The two didn’t talk much. A few meters further on, the victorious guests stretched out, and there was a lot of laughter and chatter, as is customary when several people talk at one another. The players from medi Bayreuth also had every reason to be happy because they were certainly aware that a relatively average performance was enough for them to earn the basketball Bundesliga team s.Oliver Wrzburg at this level with 90:75 (40:40) conquer. Baskets coach Denis Wucherer described the winners as “a team that, viewed over 40 minutes, has acted significantly more grown-up and with more quality in its interplay and decision-making”.
After the last two clear successes in a row (a 91:76 in Bonn and even a 97:78 against Crailsheim), the Bayreuthers were allowed to travel to the Main with their chests swollen with a lot of self-confidence. It wasn’t really noticeable in the first half – but in the second 20 minutes they proved that they are the more mature team.
And how much individual players are currently missing usurers and the team became abundantly clear on Monday evening. Because the series of injuries of the Baskets apparently never ends: In addition to the long-term failures Zach Smith (shoulder) and Justin Sears (cruciate ligament), Brekkott Chapman (Achilles tendon) and new playmaker Robert Lowery, who was sorely missed as a regulating hand in front and in front It is still not foreseeable how long the 33-year-old American will be out because of his elbow injury, the Baskets hospital has another recent addition: Captain Felix Hoffmann tore a bundle of muscles in his thigh when he was defeated at MBC. Estimated length of the break: between three and six weeks.
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Therefore Wucherer had to change his starting line-up again and sent Julian Albus to the jump ball for the first time alongside Cameron Hunt, Tyson Ward, Murphy Holloway and Alex King. Bernd Freier also witnessed him on site. The former sole shareholder and still owner of the main sponsor who gave the name was the first time in the arena that bears his company’s name since he handed over the club to three new shareholders at the end of October last year.
And because Lowery, like suitors (at least the first half, then he left) and Captain Hoffmann – had to be content with the role of the passionate and loud cheer, Cameron Hunt and Tyson Ward practiced again this time and in between Joshua Obiesie, who last had a fairly committed and successful appearance (eight points in seven minutes), especially in the second quarter after a few dry spells, in a division of labor to initiate the home side’s attacks.
In the first section, a game characterized by two races developed, which on the whole was seldom really high class, but was not stingy with excitement. An 11-0 run by the Baskets at an early 13: 7 was countered by the Wagner stalls with a 12: 0 at 13:19. The second quarter was just as even, which is why it logically went into the break with a draw (40:40).
As with the 93:87 success of the Baskets in the first leg, an old friend in particular caused the Wrzburgers the most abdominal pain: the Lithuanian Osvaldas Olisevicius was ten times at the beginning of the 2017/18 season for the Lower Franconia – and back then not a single one Powerful and dangerous, as committed and accurate as he is this season in Bayreuth, where the wing player is the second best thrower with an average of 14 points per game. In his time in Wrzburg, he only managed four per game in his ten minutes. On Monday evening, the 28-year-old scored 19 points against his former employer in 31 minutes on the floor (one less than in the first leg) and kept hurting the hosts. Most likely three minutes and 23 seconds before the end, when he sank his third three to make it 82:67 and thus finally decided the match.
“We gave up the game for the second time in a row in the third quarter. We made mistakes that rookies make.”
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The Bayreuthers laid the foundation for their ninth success of the season and winning the direct comparison against the Baskets in the third quarter, which they won 24:12, also because the home side wanted to throw almost no more throws. The guests increased the pressure at the back and front and thus – even without a long run – their guidance continuously from 50:44 and 57:46 to 62:47. “We gave up the game for the second time in a row in the third quarter,” criticized Wucherer: “We made mistakes that rookies make.”
According to Usurer’s relegation calculation, three wins are still missing to get to “the magic ten”, as he recently called the brand, which he believes will have nothing to do with relegation once it has been reached. The Wrzburgers have a great opportunity to come one more big step closer to this goal, which was announced before the start of the season, next Saturday (6 p.m.) – when they compete in the current bottom of the Gieen 46ers and can further expand the gap to the four-time victorious Mittelhessen.
And as Obiesie said, who set a personal Bundesliga record with a total of 16 points and delivered a strong performance, so beautifully: “In Gieen, this is now a must win for us.”
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