(sks). No beauty awards were expected from the 46ers Rackelos after the quarantine. Nevertheless, the third win of the season (91:77) in the 3rd basketball league succeeded in Frankfurt on Sunday. “It was a pure battle victory”, sums up coach Rolf Scholz after the ProB duel. In the orphaned basketball city of Mainhatten, a competitive game with many leadership changes had developed. Central Hesse, which was nominally better occupied, had to knock dust out of the joints in the first half – Johannes Lischka and Co. could clearly see the forced break. So it happened that physically inferior Frankfurters could hope for victory over 35 minutes.
At the beginning, the Mainstadt team were 8-0 ahead before Alexandre Doche, Lischka and Jeril Taylor demonstrated their go-to skills. With a head waiter layup, it was Captain Lischka himself who set for 11:10 (4th). Quick points from Tim Uhlemann and Felix Schweizer then swelled the lead to 24:20. Gießen lost this narrow quarter lead due to several lack of concentration. In the meantime, the juniors were even able to hurry up to 38:28, before Taylor tapped the gaming device through the net on the other side, to the satisfaction of the Hessian nerves. Nevertheless: In the front Gießen missed a lot of good chances, in the back you were often half a step too late. “That was to be expected to a certain extent. We addressed the problems in the cabin and then implemented them better,” praised Scholz.
Initially, however, Frankfurt was able to keep the lead at a low level for many minutes even after the break. When Lischka started the brace and marked the 50:50 within seconds, it was Matthew Meredith who kept his colors in the game with three three-pointers in three minutes. It was also because of Doche that the 46ers did not collapse here. The lively guard looked partly unhappy in the first half, but now scored almost at will after being substituted on.
The opening phase in the final section was also extremely nervous. After a dunk by Noah Kamdem (73:72, 35th) Frankfurt seemed to be claiming the momentum for itself. What followed was a final sprint from Giessen like something out of a textbook. From beyond the perimeter, Uhlemann had it hit twice with a cleverly chosen break. In between, Tim Köpple created cheers on the guest bench with a three-point game. The forced 81:73 was too big a burden for the young Frankfurters. Although the South Hesse tried to turn the game through tactical fouls – but in vain. “We showed a good reaction after half-time and acted more consistently defensively. In the end we gained confidence from possession to possession. We managed to play off the small mismatches well and so we got better results than before,” Scholz analyzes . The coach expects a significantly thicker caliber on Wednesday (7 p.m.) in Ulm. The Swabian farm team is one of the strongest in the league. Both teams are at the top of the table with a clean white vest.
Gießen: Taylor (13), Doche (11), Köpple (12), Amaize, Schneider (10), Göbel, Uhlemann (20), Lischka (21), Schweizer (2), Brach (2), Maruschka.
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