The Ratiopharm Ulm basketball players were able to annoy FC Bayern Munich Favorite at the start of the final series of the basketball Bundesliga over three quarters.
The head coach Ty Harrelson team lost the first final at FC Bayern Munich with 66:82 (36:37) on Sunday (June 15th). In the best-of-five series, the Ulm are therefore 0: 1 behind, but can trace in his own hall on Wednesday. At home, the Ulm basketball players have not lost since mid -December 2024, most recently they sat down in the fifth game of the Competed semi -final series against the Würzburg Baskets through.
Ulm lasts for a long time, in the end Bavaria turns up
The game at the start of the final series was hard fought from the tip-off. The 6-0 start of the Ulmer was the clearest lead until shortly before the end. In the first half it was Justinian Jessup, who was the key player in Ulm’s offense with four sunken throws from the outside. The leadership changed several times throughout the game, because Bayern, especially three-person specialist Andreas Obst, also met their litters.
In the last quarter, however, the litter güd Ulm seemed to have lost, especially of the free -wire line worked too little. At 67:66 the Munich team turned up and put a 15-0 run. The decision, because the guests didn’t hit anything until the end.
“In crunchtime, the gurdy gone left us,” said head coach Harrelson after the game. “I think we had played out enough good opportunities that we could not use.” Ulm’s shooting Guard Tobias Jensen was at least satisfied with the first three quarters: “We showed that we can keep up. We have to build on that,” he said in the “Dyn” interview.
In the Munich SAP Garden, world champion fruit and Shabazz Napier with 20 points each were the best thrown of the defending champion, for the guests the American Jessup came to 22 points.
Playing ensures the deadline at Ulm
After the six-time champion from Munich missed the cup victory and the move into the play-offs of the Euroleague, Bayern want to prevent a titled season. For Ulm it is about the second championship title after 2023. Three victories are necessary for the big coup if this would take longer than three games, Ulm would come to a bredouille. The young Ulm players Ben Saraf and Noa Essengue are candidates for the NBA draft, which will increase in New York on June 25 and 26. However, playing four and five of the BBL final series for the 24th and 26th are currently scheduled. Ulm had applied for a laying of the games at the league so that the players could be part of the draft without missing in the fight for the championship.
According to a press release from Ulm on Sunday, this was rejected, whereupon the club sharply criticized the league and Bayern. “Due to the inevitableness of the Easycredit BBL and our final opponent FC Bayern basketball, not only two Ulm top talents are rubbed between their dreams and the sporting value of the final series is set for disposition, in our view a fatal sign is set to the outside world,” it said in the communication.
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