Ratiopharm Ulm plays against Bayern Munich for winning the second German championship after 2023. Game one will increase in Munich next Sunday.
Former master Ratiopharm Ulm has reached the final in the basketball Bundesliga and in the final series with Bayern Munich demands the top favorite. The Ulm won the fifth semi -finals against the Würzburg Baskets On Thursday evening with 91:84 (50:43) and used the home advantage that they had earned in the regular season.
“Horny energy performance again. We were there as a team from the start. And we just had a good game plan,” born in Munich Jallow told SWR-Sport. The Ulm basket hunters play for the fifth time for the title. Coach Ty Harrelson was just “Superproud” on his boys. And sports director Thorsten Leibenath “cannot remember a comparably intense series.”
How to hide us from anyone. We want to steal one game.
Karim Jallow opposite the SWR on the chances against Bayern Munich
The dream finals are perfect
In the final, Bavaria meets the main round of Ulm. The first game of the “Best-of-Five series” will take place on Sunday (6 p.m.) in Munich. The masters of the past two years meet at the duel between Bavaria and Ulm. “Everything is possible. We go there with a wide breast on Sunday. We want to steal the game one and we look further from there,” said Jallow. Ulm 2023 won the last playoff series of the two clubs so far with 3-0.
In the current season, the two top clubs each won their home games.
For the defending champion from Munich, the seventh German championship is mandatory after the team of coach Gordon Herbert had previously missed the cup victory and the targeted play-offs of the Euroleague. Ulm, on the other hand, can play with young talents such as Saraf and Noa Essengue, who could make the leap into the NBA when the draft.
Appointments must be solved
Speaking of Saraf and Essengue: The approaches to games four and five are currently still colliding with the NBA draft from NOA Essengue and Ben Saraf in New York. That is why the Ulm submitted a proposal to adapt the entire schedule at the league, which does not force the two talents to choose between two childhood dreams: the fight for a national title and the unique moment, to be selected by an NBA team. Hopefully there can be a compromise.
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