The first leg defeat had historic dimensions.
On matchday 11, Syntainics MBC humiliated Alba Berlin in their hall with 108:75. The Berliners’ highest home defeat in the Easycredit Basketball Bundesliga of all time.
On Sunday Alba won in Weißenfels with 76:67. Bill paid! It’s the tenth win in a row for the guests! This makes the capital city the hottest team in the Bundesliga.
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Berlin has to do without various players. Among other things, world champion Johannes Thiemannn (30/back) cannot play.
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On the other side, Jhonathan Dunn (26), who is averaging 10.6 points per game this season, is missing.
MBC center John Bryant (36) broke the news that he was out live on TV shortly before the game. At Dyn he says: “He won’t play today because he has back problems. This is a difficult situation for us.”
The spectators in the Weißenfels town hall can see relatively quickly that the 2.11 meter man is not doing well.
The American is not in the starting five. Instead, he sits on the ergometer. Sees cycling for much of the first half.
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In the first 20 minutes he is only on the floor for 75 seconds and scores two points.
At the break Alba leads by just 38:37.
Berlin’s assistant coach Thomas Päch at halftime at Dyn: “We have to improvise here today because we arrived without a real center. Louis Olinde has to help out there, but you can see that he lacks habit in the position. On top of that, we don’t hit well enough, we don’t rebound well enough. One of the two definitely has to get better.”
The third quarter is tight. It goes back and forth. John Bryant is also involved. Arbitrates a pack formation. But don’t score any points – the score is 54:52 for the hosts before the final period.
Curious scene with seven minutes and 42 seconds on the clock: After checking the monitor, Alba coach Israel Gonzalez gestures wildly towards the referee. Next to him: his assistant coach, with an iPad in his hand.
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Background: Alba leads at this point with 62:58, but in the hall only 61:58 is shown. The Spaniard wants to point this out to the referees. They check the score (without a tablet) and correct the display.
Alba then pulls away and wins clearly in the end. Also because they get far more rebounds – 17 on the offensive board alone (MBC: two).
Best throwers: Matt Thomas (16 points) for Alba, Johnathan Stove also has 16 for the MBC. Bryant stays at two points.
Alba’s Justin Bean at Dyn: “It was a battle!”
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