On Sunday afternoon, the basketball players of FC Bayern fully made the dozen: which does not mean the number of successes against the eternal rival Alba Berlin; After the 99:86, the Munich team is now far ahead with 36:27 victories. We are talking about the twelfth appearance in the SAP Garden, which was sold out again with 11 200 spectators. Actually, the Munich players only carry Euroleague games there, Bundesliga (BBL) play the BMW Park in the 6400 spectators. The fourth comparison with the Berliners in the current season was the first BBL game in the new “FCB garden”.
The duels against Berlin are still attracting the masses, even if they have lost in terms of explosive – the Munich are too far from the eternal competitor. On Sunday, however, the Berliners were not willing to add small, they were equivalent, led 41:38 during the break, kept the game open until the final seconds and forced Bayern to extend the five -minute extension at 80:80.
In the final quarter, Center Devin Booker turns the knee, a diagnosis is still pending
This is despite the fact that the Berliners in Gabriele Procida, Martin Hermannsson, Matt Thomas and Justin Bean were missing four important actors due to injury. The fact that the Alba team was blessed with character and fighting spirit had already shown a 93:87 success against Maccabi Tel Aviv in Belgrade last Thursday. Bavaria had also recently won away in the European premier class, 97:82 in Kaunas. The possibilities FCB coach Gordon Herbert had again showed himself on Sunday when he brought the bank to Andrus Hollatz and Johannes Voigtmann from the bank after five minutes in Andreas Obst.
Nevertheless, the guests presented, William McDowell White (23 points) scored reliably from the distance and Tim Schneider (20). Bayern acted in a kind of beautiful mode for a long time, to the trouble of the coach: “I didn’t like the first 25 minutes,” said Herbert, only after that it got better. It was always understandable, after all, there are two important Euroleague games on Tuesday (Milan) and on Thursday (Villeurbanne), the declared goal of the Munich are the playoffs. Nevertheless, the host could always get up when it was absolutely necessary: especially in the five -minute extension, top scorer Carsen Edwards (30 points) and Andreas Obst (14) emerged.
Despite the narrow victory and the defense of the lead in the BBL, there was bad news for the Munich team: Devin Booker twisted three minutes before the end and had to be led from the field that the center would hardly be replaced. FCB Managing Director Marko Pesic would first like to wait for the KERSPIN examination, but admitted that “a failure would be a bitter setback”.
Alba is only in 14th place in the Bundesliga and fights for the playoffs, in the European premier class they are bottomed to the bottom. The Berliners also have to compete internationally twice during the week: in contrast to Bayern, who fear for their center, Berlin hopes for returnees from sick leave.
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