Telekom Baskets Bonn remain at the top of the table in the Basketball Bundesliga after the twelfth day of play.
The easy 89:66 (40:27) on Thursday evening (December 29, 2022) against the Fraport Skyliners was the fifth win in a row and the eleventh success in the twelfth game.
Top performance by Tyson Ward
The outstanding player on the floor was Tyson Ward, who sank seven of his eleven threes and scored 29 points. Second in the table, Alba Berlin, who has also only suffered one defeat, can catch up in the home game against the Skyliners on January 3rd.
The game of the champions and cup winners against Niners Chemnitz, originally scheduled for Thursday, was postponed on Friday due to the Euroleague game at Lyon-Villeurbanne.
Bayreuth missed liberation
Kellerkind medi Bayreuth has meanwhile clearly missed another liberation. The penultimate table suffered a bitter 73:95 (33:53) home defeat against BG Göttingen on Thursday evening.
The cautious euphoria after the win against the former series winner Brose Bamberg (92:86) is followed three days later by the disillusionment with the 2010 cup winner. The 20 points from guard Ahmed Hill, who became the top scorer of the game, could not change that.
Split matchday – Bayern and Rostock celebrate earlier
The first game of the 12th match day had already taken place two and a half weeks earlier. Bayern won 81-77 (44-31) in an early game against EWE Baskets Oldenburg on Tuesday (6 December 2022). The best pitchers in the Munich Dome were Cassius Winston for Bayern with 23 points and Trey Drechsel with 16 points for Oldenburg.
Even early, one day before Christmas Eve, the Rostock Seawolves had prevailed over the Hakro Merlins Crailsheim with 103:91 (48:37). The best pitcher for the promoted team was JeQuan Lewis with 30 points.