“We play because it is on the plan,” says FC Bayern coach before the duel with the first pursuer in the Bundesliga.
Top game in Ulm? For Gordon Herbert nothing more than an annoying duty. “I don’t care about Tuesday. We play because it is on the planned,” said the coach of the league leader FC Bayern before the duel with the first pursuer in the Basketball Bundesliga (BBl). Because for the Munich team on Thursday on the last main round of the round of the Euroleague against the top team Fenerbahce Istanbul around the quarter -final ticket.
Exactly 48 hours earlier, defending champion Bayern (19: 6) competes with Ratiopharm Ulm (18: 8) (from 8 p.m. in the live ticker), Herbert would have liked to have had it differently. “It is not ideal that we still have to play in front of Fener on Tuesday, but that’s how it is,” said the world championship coach after the relaxed victory over the Löwen Braunschweig on Sunday (94:72). “We try what we can do.”
Herbert: “We have to play”
“We can’t train Tuesday, we have to play. We will see who we take with us and then we also really play,” announced the Canadian. A possible defeat is also not a broken leg: “I am not really concerned whether we are the first, second, third, fourth or fifth.”
Bayern definitely stay ahead, no matter how the top game will end. After that, six games wait until the start of the play-offs. And there is no more team that is currently one of the top five in the league. The most difficult opponent on paper is also a cup winner Syntainics MBC from Weißenfels (April 27).
Ulm senses the chance
And Ulm? Shake his chance. The 117: 87 on Sunday against the third in the table Niners Chemnitz was a demonstration of the strength. “I hope we can take this performance as an incentive and also design our upcoming games, especially on Tuesday against Bavaria,” said coach Ty Harrelson.
Philipp Herkenhoff also has hope: “If we use the home energy on Tuesday and appear with the same confidence, we can defeat Bayern.”
The BBL is not in focus for Munich this week. You are seventh in the Euroleague before the 34th matchday and already have the ticket for the play-in tournament, but could still move directly into the play-off quarter-finals. For this, a victory must be made against the second in the table Fenerbahce. But first it goes to Ulm.