Already on Thursday (8 p.m.) EWE Baskets Oldenburg have the chance to follow the disillusionment of the defeat against the Skyliners a first season success. However, a tough touchstone and a title candidate are a guest in the Großer Ewe Arena with runner -up Ratiopharm Ulm. There are currently a few remaining tickets at www.ewe-baskets.de/tickets. All games of the Easycredit BBL and the BBL Cup Is there only live at Dyn.
Starting situation: In the past few days, the EWE Baskets had to draw the right conclusions after the disillusionment of the first match day and at the same time quickly focus on the next task. Against the Skyliners, the Oldenburgers initially made a strong impression over the first 23 minutes until 50:35.
Nevertheless, the following 17 minutes showed that some work is still waiting for Coach Krunic and his team to achieve the desired level. In rebounding and ball control, the focus went down, Frankfurt came back over offensive rebounds and fastbreaks. Once in the last few minutes, in the last few minutes, in view of the completely yellow arena, the great framework also had a certain amount of seizure was noticeable.
On Thursday it is now even more important to put the 6,200 fans with emotional play and appearance and celebrate the first victory together.
Personnel situation: Whether Kyle Lofton can participate will decide until the match day. However, the Guard is already in training.
Parking situation: The fifth season runs with the Kramermarkt. In addition to a lot of fun, this also means a limited parking situation. There are no parking spaces available on the large EWE Arena. The EWE Baskets ask their fans by bike or public transport and to arrange as early as possible.
The opponent: For a long time in Germany the duel between Munich and Berlin was the game for supremacy in basketball. Ulm has pushed into this circle in recent years. Not only the German Championship 2023 speaks for this, but also the new move into the final of the past season and the strong appearances in the Eurocup.
Despite a smaller upheaval, the Ulm successfully started playing time and trusted a well -known system. Great quality performers are combined with European talents at the highest level and should develop with patience.
The Ulm won 94:81 in the BBL leading duel against the Niners Chemnitz, and on Tuesday evening there was a 96:93 in Ankara in Turkish to the start of the Eurocup. Against Chemnitz, team game (27 assists) and defensive (38.8% FG Chemnitz) convinced, in the Eurocup rebound advantages and 50 percent three quota.
In both encounters, the Ulmer were able to rely on the experienced top performers. Nelson Weidemann confirmed the strong impressions from the previous season and national team summer, and scored 21 points against Chemnitz. Weidemann was supported in the Guard positions by Tobias Jensen, Mark Smith and Len Schoormann. Jensen performed strong performance in both encounters, decided the Eurocup duel with important threesome in Crunchime. Mark Smith triumphed with 23 points and seven assists in Ankara, while Len Schoormann convinced with 11 points, eight assists and five rebounds in the BBL. Bryce Brown, on the other hand, was missing in both games.
The mixture of experience and new actors continues in the large positions. Christian Sengfelder scored 14 points and ten rebounds at the start of the season, and his adjoining man Christopher Ledlum came up with 16 points. Malik Osborne again put on strong values last season with 13.1 points and 8.2 rebounds. The Italian top talent Diego Garavaglia and the French Mohamed Diakite and Meissa Faye form a trio that scores over Ulm towards NBA.
