The Telekom Baskets’ chances of qualifying for the play-offs at the last minute were already of a theoretical nature before the game. And the game confirmed this with almost brutal clarity: The Bonn team had no real chance in the prestigious duel at ALBA Berlin on Wednesday and suffered a heavy defeat with 69:90 (19:20, 12:30, 22:23, 16:17). .
This meant they missed their last chance to climb to sixth place. Instead, it is clear that the Bonn team will have to compete on Tuesday, May 14th at 8:30 p.m. in the play-ins, which were introduced for the first time this season for the teams in seventh to tenth place. Whether the Baskets have a home game will only be decided in the last main round game on Sunday (May 12th) against their table neighbors Ludwigsburg (3:30 p.m., Telekom Dome), who, in eighth place, could also be the opponent in the play-ins again.
The Baskets only had one strong phase against the Berliners when they turned the game on its head in the first quarter after being 2:7 down with a 12:0 run to make it 14:7. But the second-place team was only briefly irritated and countered with a 10-0 run to make it 20:17. The guests were able to maintain contact until the middle of the second half (27:28), then the thread broke completely for the Bonn team. By halftime, the Albatrosses scored 22:4 points and went into the locker room with a comfortable 50:31 lead.
Without Sam Griesel
With this second quarter they won 30:12, the Berlin team decided the match. The Baskets were practically equal in the remaining three sections, which they only lost by one point each. With their more aggressive and physical game, the Berliners largely controlled the Baskets’ offense. The home team scored much, much better: in the first half, the Berliners had an outstanding field rate of 72 percent (18 out of 25), the Bonn team only 38 percent (11 out of 29).
The statistics revealed further weak points for the Bonn team, who had to make do without Sam Griesel: Before the break, the Berliners sank two thirds of their long-range shots (six out of nine three-pointers), while the baskets only sank 23 percent (four out of 17). And when it came to defensive rebounds, Berlin achieved a crushing dominance with 28:11. In the end, the best player from Bonn was the Norwegian Harald Frey with 23 points and seven assists, while only Thomas Kennedy (16) and Brian Fobbs (11) scored in double figures.
After the game, Bonn’s head coach Roel Moors was particularly annoyed by the slump in the second half: “After a strong start to the game, we had a very bad phase in the second quarter in which we gave ALBA a big lead. After the break we quickly fought our way to twelve points, but then lost too many unnecessary balls.”
Baskets (points/3s): Blunt, Flagg (3/1), Watson (9), Frey (23/4), Fobbs (11/3), Pape, Thiemann (2), Kirkwood (2), Sengfelder (3 /1), Kennedy (16); Rebounds: 23 (Watson 5); Assists: 14 (Frey 7); Field hit rate: 38% (23/61); Three-point rate: 26% (9/34); Free throw rate: 78% (14/18). Berlin (points/3s): Brown (22/2), Wetzell (4), Delow (8), Mattisseck, Schneider (6), Thomas (14/4), Hermansson (13), Nikic (1), Koumadje ( 6), Rapieque (5), Thiemann (8/1), Bean (3/1); Rebounds: 35 (Koumadje 7); Assists: 22 (Brown 4, Hermansson 4, Nikic 4); Field hit rate: 64% (32/50); Three-pointer rate: 42% (8/19); Free throw rate: 86% (18/21).
2024-05-10 06:19:03
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