The special explosiveness: Actually, the explosive thing about this game is that it’s not as explosive as you would think when you hear “promoters against narrowly saved club”. Instead, the Frankfurters are in a play-in place, with Jena just behind.
Status quo: However: There have recently been two defeats for the Hessians, including a 76:88 in Bonn during the week. Jena, on the other hand, clearly lost to runner-up Ulm at home with a score of 70:92 – so both clubs have something to make up for, regardless of their comparatively comfortable existence in the middle of the table with a balanced balance sheet.
Duel in focus: In 2008 the euro was introduced in Malta and Cyprus, Barack Obama was elected President of the USA and… Klaus Perwas joins the Frankfurt team. 17 years later he is still there and is firmly scheduled as head coach for the first time this season. For many, the year 2006 is now associated with the summer fairytale of the national football team; only in Thuringia is it known exclusively as the first year in which Björn Harmsen At the tender age of 24, he took over as head coach at Jena and was immediately promoted from the second division to the BBL. Two years later we went to Weißenfels, from there to Gießen and then back to Jena. Then back to Weißenfels before returning to his adopted home in 2023 after a detour to Münster. Faithful souls? Definitely, and therefore somehow figureheads of the league. Stefan Koch will tell you who else this is in his latest column.
Please pay: Balanced balance sheet? Both have. But the direct duel could also be very even: Frankfurt has 85.0 points, while Jena scores 84.9 points on average. Both teams hit 74.1 percent of their free throws. With 38.6 rebounds per game, Jena only collects 0.6 rebounds more than the SKYLINERS, and in terms of assists they are ranked 16th (Frankfurt) and 17th (Jena) in the league.
On the edge of the gang: Bei Frankfurt faithful Center Jaedon LeDee (Thumb injury) out of the last three games, Jena will be with us Great Osobor (Knee injury) the starter at five is also missing for the rest of the season. No insignificant failures: LeDee is by far the most effective player in the league, Osobor is Jena’s top scorer with an average of 16.1 points.
In Europe and worldwide – German Basketball is mad sexy: The foundations for a not insignificant part of the sexiness of German basketball were laid in Frankfurt and Jena: Finally played Johannes Voigtmann in his youth with the Thuringians before he made his debut in the easyCredit BBL in Frankfurt – and under the later world champion coach Gordon Herbert (as well as Klaus Perwas) won the FIBA Europe Cup. All very sexy!
TV / live stream: The game will be broadcast live here on Dyn on Sunday from 4:15 p.m. The commentator is Paul Gudde. In addition, the game is available to watch freely on linear television on WELT TV (and therefore also free of charge here in the stream and as part of the Dyn Sport Mix on the Dyn partner platforms Amazon Prime Video, Zattoo, Joyn, Pluto TV and ASTRA.
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