A week after their supposed liberation with the 100:87 win over Bayreuth, the Eisbären Bremerhaven suffered another setback in the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga Pro A. Coach Steven Key’s team lost 82:89 (40:57) at Baskets Münster on Sunday, suffering their eighth defeat in their eleventh game of the season and are 15th in the table. stuck in the basement of the league.
While the Eisbären coach was able to return to work after recovering from illness, there was a great shortage of personnel in the player squad. In addition to Jarelle Reischel, who was still missing due to a knee injury, Lennard Larysz was also unavailable due to illness. Steven Key had to do without two players with German passports, which meant that Adrian Breitlauch was on the pitch for almost 28 minutes despite a damaged ankle. In addition, 18-year-old Anton Meyer made his first appearance of the season for Bremerhaven and scored points for the professionals for the first time.
After their good performance against Medi Bayreuth, the Eisbären traveled to Münster very confidently. The long-awaited third success of the season had caused the mood barometer to rise considerably, but on Sunday the Bremerhaven team began to sober up again. The guests’ best shooter, Aaron Cook (5), and Nick Hornsby (2) had ensured a decent 7-2 start by the third minute. But it quickly became apparent that the polar bears would once again have a difficult time.
Münster’s most successful thrower, Adam Tooray with 18 points, put his team in the lead for the first time at 12:11 (5th), and after 14:13 the hosts pulled away to 23:15 (7th). Even a timeout by Steven Key didn’t lead to a turnaround; after the first quarter it was 31:24 for Münster.
At least the Bremerhaven people’s goodwill could not be denied. At the beginning of the second quarter they fought their way back into the game, and when Matt Frierson sank a three-pointer into the opposing basket to make it 32:35 (13th), the turnaround seemed within reach. Now Münster’s coach Götz Rohdewald took a break – with resounding success. While the guests remained without their own basket for five minutes, the Baskets took the lead to 49:32. It was a deficit from which the Bremerhaven team was never able to recover. The gap was also 17 points at the break (40:57).
After the score was 45:65 (24th), another timeout by the guests was largely ineffective. Although the polar bears managed to catch up a few points, they were no longer able to really pose a threat to their opponents. After another three minutes without a goal at the end of the third and beginning of the fourth quarter, the guests were always trailing by double digits until the final phase.
It spoke for the polar bears that they never gave up. But after Matt Frierson reduced the score to 80:87 with his second three-pointer 53 seconds before the end, Cosmo Gruhn in return destroyed Bremerhaven’s last vague hopes of victory with the last two points for Münster. They are now faced with the next tricky task: Next Saturday at 6 p.m., a win is mandatory in the home game against the 16th place in the table, the Baskets Paderborn, with the same points.
Polar Bears Bremerhaven: Cook (19), Giles (11), Frierson (6), Breitlauch, Meyer (3), Charles (2), Oehle (8), Henningsson (10), Drescher (12), Hornsby (11)
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2023-12-10 16:30:00
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