WHow to force ball losses on the opponent was impressively demonstrated by the Ludwigsburg giants in their 94:80 away win against the Fraport Skyliners. With great unity and extreme will. The championship runner-up stole the ball twelve times in the basketball Bundesliga from Frankfurt on Saturday and forced the Skyliners to lose a total of 21 balls in 40 minutes of play.
Frankfurt’s builder Jon Axel Gudmundsson was most impressed by the pressure built up by Ludwigsburg. The Icelandic international dropped the ball six times, followed by Kamari Murphy and Matt Mobley (four times each), who was the Skyliners’ top scorer with 21 points. “Too many ball losses have always deprived us of the chance to get better into the game,” said head coach Sebastian Gleim. However, he was satisfied that his team “kept trying to come back”.
Yorman Polas Bartolo from Ludwigsburg, who had convinced the Skyliners as an experienced basketball professional at the Bundesliga final tournament in Munich in June, Gleim would have liked to have tied the Frankfurt team longer. On Saturday in the ball sports hall, the winger showed why at a sporty reunion.
First, the 35-year-old scored in the final quarter from a distance of 83:74 for Ludwigsburg, before he increased to 88:76 shortly afterwards with another three-point throw – even though the two-time Bundesliga defender in 2018 and 2019 did not have one in this discipline Is a specialist. His outstanding individual performance was crowned by Polas Bartolo (14 points in total) in his 175th first division game with his 700th rebound. Not to forget that he stole the ball from the Skyliners four more times. Frankfurt, on the other hand, only managed to steal the ball four times from Ludwigsburg (a total of ten ball losses).
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