Gordon Herbert is a humorous man, behind his somewhat gnarled appearance, his fine irony is often blown up on public dates this season. Sometimes he told wink with a wink of wanting to go snowboard on the free weekend, sometimes he reported that his son has often lived from his dreary as a coach in which he wanted nothing other than basketball. Herbert remained pretty serious on Thursday. And he distributed an exuberant praise to his players for his standards: “Three victories against three Euroleague teams in five days, that’s great. A huge praise to our players, they were resilient today. “
The Munich team had also defeated Asvel Villeurbanne on Thursday, after the arduous 76:67 (38:30) success, they are now 16:10 victories in sixth place on the Euroleague table. Those who stand there qualify directly for the playoffs at the end of the main round. On Tuesday, Gordon’s team had already beat Olimpia Milan 87:70, and duped the Euroleague-last Alba Berlin-but in the Bundesliga-on Sunday. Bayern won five of the youngest six games in Europe’s highest club competition.
And so they also overcome the low of the form that they had hit around Christmas until mid -January – with new resilience. Although they lost a key figure in their game in Devin Booker, who was injured against Berlin on the knee. “Booker’s failure is very painful for us, but we have come together again,” said Andreas Obst Thursday night after the village player: “It wasn’t necessarily the hottest show, we had to work hard. But we are standing where we want to stand. “
Obst had hit five threesome and thus jumped up to the top scorer of a game that did not necessarily get a special seal of quality. The game of Bayern was too troublesome, especially in the first two quarters, both offensive rows were too weak. And that the Munich-based loss statistics won 13:12 against Villeurbanne did not necessarily testify to the highest concentration in the field.
Captain Vladimir Lucic is “a ripped off fox,” says Andreas Obst
On the other hand, speaking of resilience: You have preceded a certain obstacle and resilience, especially in the defense, since the return of another key player, which is particularly needed in the Euroleague. Vladimir Lucic was out of the game for three months because of a calf injury, now he gives the team the direction again. No game has lost her since his return. The captain is “a ripped off fox, he has a lot of experience, a lot of presence on the field, but also in the cabin. He is our leader, ”said one in fruit who also has leadership qualities in fruit that is achieved alone-but in a different way.
Lucic scored ten points, he fished eight rebounds out of the air, he was at the front of Bayern with the so -called performance index rating, a scale that has been reduced to the overall performance of a player on the field. “It is a coincidence that we won all six games after Lucic’s return,” said Coach Herbert. But it is not just Lucics that Bayern fought out of their winter low a good week before the Cup final: Center Danko Brankovic, who has been more on the bench so far, showed his best Eurolaegue on Tuesday against Milan -Piel for Bayern. The 2.17-meter man also set important accents against Villeurbanne, he won six rebounds. Defensive artist Nick Weiler-Babb, also a key player this season, has been playing in top form for months, seven points, seven rebounds and three steals against Villeurbanne were almost a modest value for the American. And Johannes Voigtmann also helps the team a lot during this time.
The fact that shooter Carsen Edwards does not need to wear the load alone that the beefy booker can be replaced-these are the two most important findings for Bayern, who are now going into a three-week Euroleague break, but meet Rasta Vechta on Sunday in the Bundesliga . “It wasn’t our best game, but a sign of a good team is if you don’t play so well and still win,” said Herbert. Without irony.
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