Despite a good performance, the Alba Berlin basketball players suffered their 12th defeat in the 15th game of the EuroLeague season. The Bayern basketball players extended their home series.
The Bundesliga team lost by a narrow margin of 90:91 (46:51) in the Uber Arena at home against the Serbian top team Partizan Belgrade and remains second to last in the table. The best Berlin throwers in front of 9,289 spectators were Alba David McCormack with 16 points and Matteo Spagnolo and Tim Schneider with 13 points each.
Coach Israel Gonzalez had to do without Gabriele Procida, who suffered an ankle injury during the away game in Monaco last Friday. Captain Martin Hermannsson is once again suffering from Achilles tendon problems. But the hosts showed great improvement offensively from the start against Partizan, who won all of their previous four Euroleague games.
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One free throw is missing for overtime
The Berliners hit their shots and were able to maintain a narrow lead almost throughout the first quarter. At the end of the first section, the throwing rate decreased somewhat. Belgrade, with ex-Berlin player Sterling Brown and national player Isaac Bonga, took advantage of this and took the lead again at the break.
Partizan, cheered on by numerous fans in the hall, was able to pull away to 74:64 at the end of the third quarter, but the Berliners came back and even took the lead 88:84 with 65 seconds left. With 1.7 seconds left, Alba fell behind again 89:91. The possible extra time was missed by McCormack, who was then only able to convert one of two free throws.
Eighth home game, eighth win – Bayern’s basketball players extend their home series
After a lot of hard work, Bayern Munich’s basketball players won their eighth home game of the season in the EuroLeague. The team of world champion coach Gordon Herbert beat the 14th place in the table. Maccabi Tel Aviv on Thursday evening 98:93 (43:50).
Bayern got off to a weak start and were ten points behind at times in the first quarter. The champions nibbled at the deficit until the final quarter and finally managed to turn things around with a concentrated performance. Carsen Edwards was the top scorer for Bayern with 25 points, who remain in the top group with ten wins from 15 games.
Unlike Maccabi’s recent appearance in Berlin, the game in Munich was not classified as a high-risk game, but hundreds of police officers were still on duty on Thursday evening. Possible anti-Semitic actions against the Israeli top team should be prevented.
