Hamburg (dpa / lno) – Even after the eighth confrontation with the MHP giants Ludwigsburg, the Bundesliga basketball club Veolia Towers Hamburg is empty-handed. Assistant coach Benka Barloschky quickly identified one reason for the 92: 103 Hanseatic League defeat on Sunday. “We knew what to expect: very physical, aggression. We didn’t have good body language and we dug into a deep hole,” said assistant coach Raoul Korner, considering the team’s performance in the first 20 minutes.
So there was little to be seen of BBL’s best defense to date this season in the first half. In the previous five games, the Towers had only conceded an average of 75.6 points. In Ludwigsburg, however, they were already 41:57 behind at half-time. The Hamburgers showed significantly improved in the second half and narrowed the gap to 92:96 in the final stage thanks to eleven points from Lukas Meisner. But that didn’t help prevent the second defeat of the season.
Barloschky admitted that the first-round mortgage was ultimately too big. “This is how Ludwigsburg was able to bring the game home.” Towers pitcher Ziga Samar, the best with 18 points, thought this way: “57 points in one half is too much. We played with more energy in the second half. But it takes forty minutes to be successful.”
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