If the basketball Bundesliga team BG Göttingen succeeds on Saturday, the team can look forward to four wins in a row. Hosts EWE Baskets Oldenburg, who are currently sixth in the table and surprisingly still in the middle of a relegation battle, have something against that. Tipoff of the encounter is at 8:30 p.m.
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At the end of January, long-time head coach Mladen Drijencic resigned from the EWE Baskets and Ingo Freyer took over as head coach. “Oldenburg is now playing with a lot of freedom and at a very fast pace,” says BG assistant coach Olivier Foucart, who will not be there on Saturday in Oldenburg due to a positive corona test. “The Oldenburgers are dangerous because you don’t know exactly what to expect.”
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Freyer has brought new self-confidence to the Lower Saxony, so that the Oldenburg team have already won five times under his direction and have worked their way up from the relegation zone to 16th place. Last weekend the team around league icon Rickey Paulding defeated the Niners Chemnitz with 92:87. In addition to US guard Phil Pressey (20 points), Max Heidegger (19) and Paulding (16), ex-Violet Tai Odiase also scored double-digit points (15). Former Bennet Hundt from Göttingen received a little less playing time, with around six minutes.
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With an average of 17.7 points per game, Heidegger scored the most points with a three-point hit rate of 39 percent. He is followed by Michal Michalak (13.7), who sat out against Chemnitz as an extra foreign player, and Paulding (11.8). “
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Freyer’s focus is clearly on the offensive. The Baskets achieve an average of 85 points per game and take around 67 throws from the field – only Hamburg, Ludwigsburg and Bonn come close to this mark in the league. “The key for us will be our defense,” says Foucart. “We have to organize ourselves quickly when switching from attack to defense and put as much pressure on Oldenburg as possible. We also have to rebound well.”
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Advance ticket sales have already started for the upcoming home game against the MLP Academics Heidelberg on Wednesday, March 23 (8:30 p.m.), for the duels with s.Oliver Würzburg (March 27), the Fraport Skyliners (April 6) , the Hamburg Towers (April 10) and Alba Berlin (April 17), advance ticket sales started on Thursday. Tickets are available from the Tageblatt offices in Göttingen, Wiesenstrasse 1, and Duderstadt, Markstrasse 9, as well as in the Veilchen online ticket shop at bggoettingen.de.
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Around 2,600 fans (75 percent occupancy) are currently allowed to follow the BG games in the Sparkassen-Arena, with the 2G-plus rule applying. The FFP2 mask requirement in the entire Sparkassen-Arena also remains in place, but the mask can be removed at the seat. Children under the age of seven no longer need a ticket after the Würzburg home game. They may be taken into the arena free of charge, but then have no right to a seat.
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