With the valuable victory over Red Star Belgrade, the Munich team get a good step closer to the quarter -final ticket in the Euroleague.
A key game won thanks to “microwave”, the playoffs firmly in view. With their valuable victory over Red Stern Belgrade, the basketball players of FC Bayern have come a good step closer to the targeted quarter -final ticket in the Euroleague. “It was huge for us,” said world champion Niels Giffey after the 100: 82 (52:37) in magenta.
After the 77: 101 in the first leg, the second duel also dealt with the direct comparison, which could become important after the end of the main round with the same victory balance. “We always looked at the result with one eye,” said Giffey, “we tried it, but didn’t quite come out.”
Bayern star raves: “Really big victory”
Belgrade has the nose with six points ahead, but the Munich team had to let them pass in the table.
With 17 wins and eleven defeats, FC Bayern is fifth and stands right in front of red star, but Paris basketball (both 16:12) and Partizan Belgrade (15:12) lurk. Even Real Madrid (14:14) in eleven, which would not be enough for the Play-ins, could still fight in the outstanding six games.
“It was a really big and important victory,” said Belgrade Bayern captain Vladimir Lucic after the success of his compatriots. The team was “a bit nervous” at the beginning, but “found a way to get a rhythm offensive and defensive”.
Herbert with a curious special praise
Gordon Herbert complained. “Of course I was a little worried about how we started. We were sloppy, not in the game, ”criticized the trainer, but the second and third quarters were“ outstanding ”.
The top scorer received a special praise. “Carsen Edwards is a microwave and shabazz (Napier) and Nick (Weiler-Babb, i.e. editor) are also looking for him when he runs hot,” says Herbert. Edwards posted 30 points.
In the race for direct quarter-final qualification, Oscar da Silva is missing. The German international has contracted an inner ligament injury in the right knee and has already been operated on. The Power Forward fails for weeks.