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Back again: veteran Jörg Dippold. © bro
Oberhachinger Tropics have two finals ahead of them.
Oberhaching – First final for the playoffs: In the two remaining home games against Porsche BBA Ludwigsburg (Saturday, 7 p.m., Deisen Dome/ livestream at www.2basketballbundesliga.de) and after Easter against Leitershofen, the Oberhachinger Tropics have to win at least once in order to get the tickets for the third championship round in a row. Difficulty: Both upcoming opponents in the ProB substructure of the 2nd Basketball Bundesliga still have a good chance of reaching the head-to-head duels between North and South. After a 78:70 against Breitengüßbach the previous week, Ludwigsburg is currently in 8th place in the fourteen league with 12:11 wins and one game in hand, which would just be enough to reach the playoff round of 16. After three recent away defeats, the Tropics are now only slightly higher in seventh place in the table with 13:11 wins. “A real key game, we have to win both games if possible in order to avoid any negative eventualities in this tight tableau,” emphasizes TSV coach Mario Matic before part one.
The German-Croat also forbids any reference to his men’s famous 91:59 first-leg win in the royal city. “They will play here with a much better lineup,” believes the Tropics trainer. If the team of the 30-year-old Ludwigsburg coach Kheeryoung Rhe, who went through the entire FC Bayern coaching training canon before his time in Ludwigsburg, competes with all five of his highly gifted players, it should be a difficult course for the yellow shirts. Especially from a distance, the youngsters Pleta, Mojica, Jung, Edigin and Stübel, all of whom have already been used in the BBL elite class with a double license, have a lot of power and across the board have high double-digit score averages. “It will be about slowing down Ludwigsburg’s fast-paced basketball,” says Matic, who, after a forced break of several games at the start of the finals, will probably be able to expand his own rotation again with veteran Jörg Dippold and is hoping for “many fans”. HARALD HETTICH
2024-03-21 15:57:36
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