The basketball players of FC Bayern Munich in a heartbeat finals Ratiopharm Ulm with 81:77 shocks – and saved the season with the defense of the German championship title. After the cup out and the missed Euroleague playoffs, an extremely demanding season in the 83rd game of the season came to a conciliatory end. In a nerve-wracking Best-of-Five series and with that from in front, the Munich team initially fended off the Ulm match ball on Tuesday. And now they struggled the brave swabs in the final game in the again packed SAP-Garden, which was thus sold out in all 27 home games, only in the final seconds and with the last strength reserves.
However, the guests also earned great recognition. The young Ulm team can look back on a fabulous season without a trophy and demanded everything from the old and new champions – but was able to narrowly not prevent his triumph. The Munich -based burdens of the three competitions were again viewed by the Munich. Her now seventh German championship was the most difficult. Before the eyes of honorary president Uli Hoeneß, the father of the Munich basketball project, and his successor Herbert Hainer, captain Vladimir Lucic and co-captain Fruit finally raised the trophy under the jubilation of the enthusiastic fans.
From the beginning, the hosts had shown that they did not want to take this opportunity, especially Devin Booker, with 19 points top scorer, set massive accents. But an interim 17-point leadership (47:30) was also deceptive against these talented and poisonous Swabians. At the break, Ulm was back at 47:41. And no matter what Shabazz Napier (15 points), Johannes Voigtmann (13) and Andreas Obst (10) came up with, the guests were simply not shaken up by the former Munich Karim Jallow (22). Before the final round, Ulm moved the FCB even closer to the fur (61:65), the final round was the worthy punch line of this nerve -wracking final series. Because suddenly the Munich trembled their hands, scattered the veterans of bad passes and misconceptions in series, the leadership changed constantly. Finally, Voigtmann brought his team to the title with two threeers to 79:75 on course for the title, which Booker secured with a rebound.
