Basketball Bundesliga team Ludwigsburg won the duel against Tigers Tübingen, but one player from their team stole the show.
“Derby winner, derby winner,” it echoed from a black and yellow corner of the MHP Arena late on Saturday evening. But which one? After all, these club colors belong to both the Ludwigsburg basketball players and the Tigers from Tübingen, who were guests. The shouts came from the home fans of the MHP Riesen, who ultimately had the upper hand in this Bundesliga duel with 104:94 (50:48). But the approximately 150 Tübingen fans also applauded their team, which had posed problems for the favorites for a long time and only lost some of its strength in the last quarter (20:30).
No wonder their coach Danny Jansson said: “It was a good game, but it’s frustrating. We are so close to winning week after week – but we can’t manage to win these games. I hope we get more consistency in our game.” Especially since his Ludwigsburg colleague Josh King admitted: “Of course I’m happy about the win, but you can’t necessarily say that it was deserved. Basketball is like that sometimes. Sometimes you get rewarded when you shouldn’t. “
The Giants’ defense in particular left a lot to be desired for a long time, so that the Tigers – led by the outstanding Jhivvan Jackson (32 points!) – even led 25:15 at one point and held on to 74:74 until the last quarter. Then Desure Bui (22), Silas Melson (18), but also Jonathan Bähre increasingly took on responsibility for the Ludwigsburg team, while Elijah Childs (4) and Deion Hammond (2) had a used evening. King, who coached with a lot of energy on the sidelines during the game, made it clear again afterwards: “We need all the players.”
The next game in three days
Especially when you have the next game in three days at 8 p.m. – then in the international Champions League. And the Bundesliga club wants to qualify for the round of the top 16 via the so-called play-ins. In order to achieve this, the Turkish team of Darüssafaka, which the Ludwigsburg team remember from the previous season in the group phase, when there was one win and one defeat, must be defeated in two or three games. But now the opponent’s squad has changed a lot, most recently, for example, playmaker James Woodard, also known from Ludwigsburg, was hired, with whom the team narrowly lost 78:85 to Euroleague club Anadolu Efes on Saturday. “We will prepare for the opponent from Sunday onwards,” said King, whose team has to travel to Istanbul on January 10th. A possibly necessary third game would then be back at home a week later – in front of their own fans. For whom King had praise: “They were fantastic against Tübingen.”
2023-12-31 00:22:44
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