After a victory
Bayern coach calculates with its own team: “Pereal and embarrassing”
12.05.2025 – 2:43 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Before it gets serious in the playoffs, FC Bayern shakes basketball. Chief coach Gordon Herbert finds drastic words.
It was bubbling in Gordon Herbert. And just before the fight for the championship starts, it just had to get out. “We play as if it were a free space on the beach. We are not a tough team, not physically,” complained the coach of FC Bayern’s basketball players. His team was “soft” if he “bought an ice cream, that would be harder.”
The words of the world champion coach after the narrow 73: 72 victory on Sunday for the main round final of the Bundesliga against the MHP Giant Ludwigsburg, which Bayern only reached with a run in the final quarter, are unexploited. Do the Munichers actually run the risk of gambling the minimum goal of defending the minimum goal after missing the cup victory and the playoffs in the Euroleague?
Herbert, this otherwise so quiet Canadian, who likes to work in his free time in the garden of his summer house in Finland, was obviously necessary to shake up his team. “Absolutely pathetic and embarrassing” his team played against Ludwigsburg in the first half, and the Munich team had back 33:51 at the break. With so little resistance, it would be very difficult in the first round of playoff from Saturday (8:00 p.m./Dyn) against Alba Berlin, the Central German BC, the EWE Baskets Oldenburg or the Rostock Seawolves.
For Herbert, “no matter” is the opponent against which in the quarter -finals. Above all, he takes care of the constitution of his team, which was still secured in the regular season and thus the best starting point for the playoffs. “I’m only interested in whether we will understand what it needs mentally to win,” said Herbert.
For the 66-year-old, who was recently missing his important top player Cars Cars Edwards because of a back injury, the playoffs also deal with the partial fulfillment of his own goals. At the start of office before the start of the season, he had issued both the title defense in the Bundesliga and the Final Four of the Euroleague as a “vision”.
Despite an unexpectedly strong season in the European premier class, it was “only” enough for the Play-in tournament because the team had the air out at the end of the main round. Nationally, the Bavarians, on the other hand, occasionally showed weaknesses-as with the bitterly in the cup semi-final against the MBC in February. Such appearances are prohibited from Saturday.