Painstaking success for champions ratiopharm Ulm, unsuccessful start for Champions League winners Telekom Baskets Bonn: While the defending champions from Baden-Württemberg fought for their second victory in the second game with a 99:84 (52:48) against league newcomers Tigers Tübingen, it turned out Another newcomer was a stumbling block for the European Cup champions of the Basketball Bundesliga on Sunday: runner-up Bonn lost to Rasta Vechta 79:84 (43:43).
A week after the narrow final defeat at the unofficial Club World Cup, 16 points from the best player Glynn Watson didn’t help the completely re-formed Bonn team win. At Vechta, point guard Tommy Kuhse was the most successful shooter with 27 points.
Bonn, which missed out on winning the title at the FIBA Intercontinental Cup in Singapore the previous week with a 69:70 win against Sesi Franca Basquete and therefore started the season late, had successful coach Tuomas Iisalo as well as everyone after the historic win of the Champions League last year Lost important player.
Ulm had a difficult time in Tübingen for a long time and pulled away to eleven points in the third quarter, but the hosts stuck with it and kept the game open until the final period. But then the favorite made the decision. LJ Figueroa was the best scorer for master coach Anton Gavel’s team with 22 points.
Like Vechta and Ulm, the Basketball Lions Braunschweig also celebrated their second victory in the second game. The Lower Saxony team won the Syntainics MBC 85:77 (41:35). Cup winners Bayern Munich and Alba Berlin are challenged on Monday as part of the second matchday.