New year, new luck: Bayern Munich’s basketball players have impressively stopped their week-long series of bankruptcies in the EuroLeague.
In the first game of the year, after nine defeats in a row, the Munich team won 95:71 (50:41) against Israel’s record champions Maccabi Tel Aviv and were able to celebrate on the international stage for the first time under new coach Svetislav Pesic.
In the first EuroLeague victory since the beginning of November, David McCormack (18 points), Vladimir Lucic (17) and world and European champion Andreas Obst (15) were the most accurate Munich players in the sold-out SAP Garden. With the sixth win in the 19th game, the Bundesliga leaders left the bottom of the EuroLeague table again.
The Munich team had one international defeat and three league victories under Pesic since parting ways with world champion coach Gordon Herbert. The 76-year-old coach described Tel Aviv as the “first test” that will show “how far we have come in internalizing the new philosophy after the three Bundesliga games.” Bayern mastered the task well.
On Wednesday (8:30 p.m.) the Munich team continues in the EuroLeague against the Spanish club Saski Baskonia.
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