Ludwigsburg’s basketball players have set a new record for this season, but they would have preferred the points.
The Giants are breaking all records – at least off the floor. In any case, on Saturday evening the Bundesliga basketball team set a new record in terms of spectators for this season. Because additional standing and seating areas were installed in the north stand of the MHP Arena as part of the “Give racism a basket” campaign, the capacity increased by 200 seats to 4,200. And they were all filled against the Bamberg Baskets, although there were In the end, the opponent scored a sporting basket, which won the game 92:87 (43:41) and dealt the giants a severe setback in the fight for one of the six direct play-off places.
“We didn’t play well defensively, so it’s hard to win games,” said Riesen coach Josh King, while his colleague Arne Woltmann was satisfied: “We accepted the fight in Ludwigsburg, even in phases when things got tight .” For example, shortly after halftime, when the Giants took a 48:43 lead, but then conceded a 5:16 run. King: “We lost all four quarters, so it was a deserved defeat.”
This was mainly due to the team’s weak shooting rate, which in the end was less than 40 percent, and the Giants also missed six free throws. All of this together had a negative effect in a game at eye level. It didn’t help that Ludwigsburg had four players with a double-digit scoring rate in the end (especially Silas Melson and Jaren Lewis with 17 points each), Bamberg’s Zach Copeland (23) and Trey Woodbury (21) scored even better .
The giants continue on Tuesday (6 p.m.) in the Champions League at Galatasaray Istanbul, where the team could make it into the quarter-finals even with a narrow defeat. The league’s next home game against the Löwen Braunschweig awaits on Friday (8 p.m.), this time under the motto after-work game day, so: first work, then pleasure?
2024-03-09 21:24:41
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