Of the so-called “Ghost Play” to something like enthusiasm: Alba Berlin on Sunday afternoon, superior to the German Basketball champion. 35. Game of the three-week long quarantine tournament in the Audi Dome of Munich, the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) during the Sport-stop by the Corona-crisis showed as the first game in sports after the football League flag, defeated the Berlin MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg 75:74 (21:11, 21:24, 25:19, 8:20). A few minutes before the end of the Ludwig Burger came twice to a point (71:72 74:75), awards but the Chance to win. In the final assault of Berlin, the Swabians refrained from fouling their opponents, and after due free throws for Alba to come to an attack.
Michael Reinsch
a correspondent for sports in Berlin.
F. A. Z.
“Maybe we were at the end, too loose,” said the Berlin Center, Johannes Thiemann, who traveled with his Team still in the night by train to Berlin. “We showed character,” said Ludwig Burger Center Jonas Wohlfahrt-Bottermann (seven points): “The Berlin this season is the measure of all things.”
How to pay for the largest success of Association history of the Ludwigsburg coach John Patrick was allowed to give his players the medals for second place, including his sons John and Jacob. The first leg on Friday night had won the Berlin 88:65. For both Teams it was the tenth game of the competition.
Ludwigsburg without the best man
the most Successful player in the Berlin team of the Spanish Coach Aíto Reneses Niels Giffey and Martin Hermannsson with 14 points, Markus Eriksson, 13, and Landry Nnoko, with twelve points. For Ludwigsburg, Germany winger Thomas Wimbush met (19 points), in the second League of the discovered structure player Jaleen Smith (15) and Nick Weiler-Babb (14) at best.
As in the first of the two finals Ludwigsburg the strongest player, the Americans, Marcos Knight, the captains of all participating Teams, chose nevertheless to the most valuable player of the competition lacked. His foot injury, which he dubbed a long time, and yet an average of 18 points per game, had scored to let its use neither on Friday, in with 23 points, lost the first leg on Sunday. “We want to win the championship,” had Wimbush tinted before the game and even at half-time in the return game (35:42) still hope: “We are playing really hard. We want to win.“
Not only the game, also the load Management of the Berlin was superior. Markus Eriksson is one with a little more than twenty minutes average use time of the longest-loaded Albanian players; in the case of the Ludwig burgers Nick Weiler-Babb and Jaleen Smith with much more than thirty minutes in the cut to occur.
