VBefore this basketball season, the Fraport Skyliners at the command post took the Spanish route. 45-year-old Diego Ocampo is the first head coach from the Iberian Peninsula in the club’s over twenty-year history. However, the Frankfurters are not pioneers in terms of their new personnel orientation. The head coach of Sunday opponent Hamburg, Pedro Calles, who defeated the Skyliners in the ball sports hall 74:64 with his team, is coaching the towers in the second season. And the former Berlin master trainer Aito Garcia Reneses has already proven his skills.
The Spaniards Israel Gonzales (Berlin) and Jesus Ramirez (Braunschweig) are also currently employed in the Bundesliga. Ocampo had already lost both duels against his compatriots at the start of the round. The defeat against Hamburg ended the poor Spanish coaching weeks for the Skyliners.
Pressure on Ocampo increases
The pressure on Ocampo is now increasing. While the Hamburg-based internationally active in the Eurocup are 2: 4 points in their core business after the first success of the season, the Frankfurt balance is 0: 6 points. The Skyliners complain about a false start and are stuck early in the fight against relegation. The Hessen’s best throwers were in front of 1400 spectators – 2300 were admitted – Quantez Robertson with 17 and Lorenz Brenneke with 14 points. Playmaker Donovan Donaldson hit zero points in just over 21 minutes.
So far, the American has not been able to justify his commitment. But the Frankfurters are “optimistic that there is still a lot to come with him. We’re not putting pressure on Donovan artificially, ”said sports manager Marco Völler of the FAZ before the game. Nevertheless, the Frankfurters keep their eyes open for a point guard on the player market. “However, we are not looking at a specific player.”
For the first time at a home game of the Skyliners was Eintracht coach Oliver Glasner. The Austrian got to see a first quarter in which the unconcentrated Frankfurters lost ten balls. The receipt was a 12:22 backlog.
After an overall disastrous first half, the Skyliners were 31:43 behind. From the two-point range, they hit only 33 percent of their litters. Often the Frankfurters, who were poorly defended and had too little intensity, only carried out individual actions. In addition, they had lost their rebound strength. After 25 minutes, builder Brancou Badio, who had reached seven points by then, was no longer allowed to play due to his second unsportsmanlike foul. A little later, captain Robertson had to accept his fourth foul, so Ocampo ordered him to sit on the bench.
After 30 minutes the people of Hamburg were happy about a 65:50 lead. The Skyliners in particular did not get a grip on Robin Christen, who had hit five of his six three-point throws by then. In the attack, the changing playmakers of the Skyliners were overwhelmed. They didn’t manage to bring structure to the Frankfurt game. In the end, the Skyliners complained about 26 ball losses, which had a significant part in the Hessians’ defeat.
Currently there is one less competitor for the Skyliners in the fight against relegation. Because to the big surprise of the league, the promoted Heidelberg, who prevailed on Saturday 75:68 in Gießen, sovereignly leads the upper house with 6-0 points. Two other clubs, on the other hand, are astonishingly low: Ulm and Oldenburg, which are each 2: 4 behind their own expectations. The season promises to be exciting – especially for the badly started Skyliners.
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