With just under five minutes left, Bayern Munich coach Andrea Trinchieri took a break and talked to his pros. But for a long time it was just slogans to persevere, and they probably didn’t really reach the players anymore. The way they sat there, with empty faces, tired legs anyway, completely disillusioned, that showed that nothing could be saved that evening.
Trinichieri’s team actually wanted to keep up with the two currently best in the league, Alba Berlin and Telekom Baskets Bonn, in the game against the MHP giants Ludwigsburg. But while Berlin narrowly defeated Bonn in the top game of the basketball Bundesliga on Sunday evening and took the lead in front of their rivals, who are now tied on points, FC Bayern went down at the same time in Ludwigsburg with their 68:96 bankruptcy and is now four points behind management duo.
At half-time, the Munich team is already exhausted
From the first second of the game, Munich had massive problems, they didn’t hit the baskets, their defense seemed indisposed. The fact that three-man specialist Andreas Obst, captain Vladimir Lucic and Othello Hunter were missing three eminently important players didn’t really help FC Bayern. The Munich team, who had played two difficult Euroleague games on Tuesday and Thursday, started the game with 2:11 points. After the first quarter it was 15:30 from their point of view, at halftime 32:55. Even then they seemed completely exhausted.
In basketball, with its mammoth program, there has been a debate about a lack of freshness for a long time. On the other hand, it is also a question of attitude, how you appear to the next Bundesliga opponent despite tired legs. “Ludwigsburg came out with so much energy and did the things that were on our plan,” Bayern international Niels Giffey said aptly at Magenta Sport after the game. It was indeed a bankruptcy that should resonate with Trinchieri and his team – even beyond the undisputedly empty Bayern tank.
