The Bundesliga basketball team of BG Göttingen received the Hamburg Towers, who were level on points before the match day, in the Göttingen S-Arena on Sunday. In front of 2413 spectators, the violets won in a game that was exciting until the end with 83:80 (43:43).
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The violets still had a score to settle with the Towers from the first leg. In November they suffered a hefty 37-point defeat in the Hanseatic city, in which they only scored 46 points themselves. The Goettingen team only scored four points in the third quarter. The violets had big plans for the second leg – especially since the guests from Hamburg are direct competitors in the fight for the playoff places.
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BG Göttingen vs. Hamburg Towers, BBL 2021/22
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BG Göttingen vs. Hamburg Towers, BBL 2021/22
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Before the game started, Kamar Baldwin was bid farewell. When the BG players came in, the top scorer from Göttingen, his left arm in a sling, high-fived his team-mates. He will no longer play after his serious injury from the Würzburg game. When he said goodbye, he received a standing ovation. “MVP! MVP!” chanted the Violet fans, short for Most Valuable Player. Baldwin wished the team success and thanked the fans: “It was great!”
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Then the time came. The violets had the first attack. Jeremiah Martin gave the home side the lead, but the guests were able to equalize. Hamburg then lacked marksmanship. Harper Kamp and twice Jeff Roberson put the Göttingen team ahead 9:2, Harald Frey increased it to 12:2 with another three pointer. The hall trembled for the first time. The Hamburg coach took a first break. That worked. The guests fought their way up to two points (14:12). The first quarter ended with 22:16.
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Hamburg’s Maik Kotsar scored the first two points in the second half, while Göttingen’s Mathis Mönninghoff held back. However, the violets could not continue that, the guests came up to one point (26:25). Roberson’s five points in a row created some breathing space again, but no rest. Hamburg stayed tuned (34:32). This is how it went on: The hosts presented, the guests couldn’t be shaken off and even managed to equalize. At 43:43 the teams went into the dressing rooms.
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After the break, Göttingen initially had the momentum on his side again. Frey made three points with the first attack after the break. Kotsar was only able to convert one of his two free throws. Martin went to the basket and scored, Kamp increased to 50:44. As a result, the home side forced Hamburg to make mistakes, but did not benefit from them on their own offensive (53:48). The picture remained the same: Göttingen scored but could not break away. With a four point lead (64:60) we went into the last section.
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BG – Towers 83:80 (22:16, 21:27, 21:17, 19:20)
BG: Martin (18pts/0 trebles/3 rebounds/2 assists), Frey (14/4/5/4), Roberson (14/1/4/1), Vargas (0/0/6/0), Hujic (6/1/0/0), Hartwich (0/0/3/2), Moenninghoff (2/0/1/0), Kamp (6/0/2/4), Brown Jr. (19/ 1/1/3), Grimes (4/0/3/1). – Team values: Field throws 31/57 (54%), threes 7/22 (32%), free throws 14/22 (64%), rebounds 31 (7 off./24 def.), assists 17, turnovers 14, fouls 26 .
Towers: Brown (17/3/1/1), DiLeo (5/1/1/1), Homesley (17/1/4/5), Meisner (6/0/6/0), Christen (3 / 1/1/1), Kotsar (15/0/10/1), Hinrichs (10/0/1/1), Bluiett (0/0/0/2), Edigin (0/0/1/0) , Hollatz (7/0/3/8). – Team values: Feldwürfe 28/61 (46%), Dreier 6/26 (23%), Freiwürfe 18/27 (67%), Rebounds 31 (10 off./21 def.), Assists 20, Ballverluste 10, Fouls 23 .
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Stephen Brown raised the score to eight points for the hosts (69:61), but the guests didn’t let themselves be shaken off and even took the lead for the first time in the game (69:70). Suddenly it went the other way around: Göttingen had to chase after the deficit (73:78). Frey shortened with a three, Roberson equalized, Brown took the lead (81:78). The audience loved it. In the end, players and fans celebrated an 83:80 victory.
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“I’m incredibly proud of my team today,” said BG coach Roel Moors. “We reacted and played with a lot of energy.” He saw confident players. “The team always believed in itself.” Although it was often tight, his team controlled most of the game and deservedly won. “We have to take that with us into the next game.”
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