Basketball: Euroleague: Bavarian quarter-final curse defeated

The dream of a double triple lives on at FC Bayern Bayern. Just a short time after the footballers, Munich’s basketball players also took the chance on Wednesday evening to clear up everything in the current season:”We’ll just stay cool in our minds and know what our game is,”said national player Danilo Barthel after Bavaria’s first semi-finals in a European competition at Telekom Sport.

Bavaria’s President Uli Hoeneß could not keep his fingers crossed for the leader of the German Bundesliga league in the Audi Dome, but, according to SZ, followed the decisive 91:81 (46:42) in the EuroCup against the Russian representative Unics Kasan “online at an Internet-enabled terminal”. By the victory, the Bayern decided the best-of-three series with 2:1 for themselves. In the round of the last four Darüssafaka Istanbul from Turkey is now waiting.

“We can be proud of what we have achieved. However, it’s over now, that was just a small step and we need to keep working on the process of becoming a team that might even be able to win this title,”said coach Sasa Djordjevic. In the last two years the Bayern had failed in the quarter-finals.

On Wednesday evening the hosts underlined their ambitions against Kazan. In a close and extremely competitive encounter with constant changes of leadership, the Munich team kept their nerves,”I think we’ve already learned a lot about staying calm in tough situations. Even if it’s not going well for us, there are other important points of emphasis,”said Barthel.

Bayern star Devin Booker was already condemned to watch in the middle of the third quarter after his fifth foul, but his team-mates were able to score ten points (78:68). With 23 points, Reggie Redding was the most successful marksman in front of 5845 spectators.

Already on Tuesday, the first meeting with the current fourth place in the Turkish league will take place in Istanbul. The second leg will take place on 23. A possible final game would be played again in Istanbul. Former NBA coach David Blatt’s team had won the quarter-finals against Montenegro’s record-breaking champions Buducnost Podgorica in two matches.