Brose bamberg still in a bad way
The brose basketball team from bamberg missed a good chance to establish themselves in the top group of the very evenly matched champions league group C. In the first five minutes of the final quarter, hapoel jerusalem’s star ensemble, which was by no means overpowering, took advantage of bamberg’s inadequacies in defense, turned the tide with a 16:3 run, cleverly saved the narrow lead over time and celebrated the 88:85 (41:43) victory.
Tyrese rice, who did not have his best day (21 percent from the field) and often got bogged down in individual actions, was able to force an extension 1.3 seconds before the end: the ball danced around on the ring after his distance shot from almost ten meters, but did not fall into the basket.
Bambergers at eye level
"We lost today against a good team. I say extra good and not better, because they were not. We lost because we made too many small mistakes, which allowed jerusalem to score easy points", brose trainer ainars bagatski took stock. Especially the ten ball losses in the first half, seven of which were in the second quarter, caused trouble for the letten. In addition, hapoel came due to the rebound weakness of the home repeatedly to second throwing chances. "This must not happen to us, but nevertheless it was our turn", bagatskis emphasized.
With 13 lead changes and eight ties, the home side held the lead for more than 24 minutes in what was a demanding game for a long time, but lost focus at the end of the third quarter after a 67:60 lead, for which augustine rubit (26 points/8 rebounds) and stevan jelovac (20/4 threes) were mainly responsible. Amar’e stoudemire, who made a splash in the nba for 14 years and who will celebrate his 36th birthday on friday. Birthday celebrations initiated the turnaround. In addition to the still athletic 2.08-meter legend, now co-owner of hapoel, josh owens shone above all, often finishing unchallenged with crashing dunks. And when it came down to it, james feldeine, who had set season bests with nine threes and 35 points against nymburk the week before, also showed his class.
"Above all, when we have followed our plan, namely not to fall off quickly, but to run through our systems, we have been successful. In the end, I don’t want to say that they were happier, because we lost the focus too often and with it the game", underlines bagatskis that his team has met the group first at eye level.
Now demanded in berlin and prague
After the bundesliga match at alba berlin on sunday (3 p.M.), the brose team has to win against CEZ nymburk in prague on tuesday to finish the preliminary round in a good position in the race for 3rd or 4th place.
