FC Bayern Basketball in the Euroleague near Baskonia: The quotas sag on the distance shooters

The matter threatens to be extremely complicated, and the result of Thursday is a good evidence. The Bayern basketball players in the Euroleague lost very clearly at BASKONIA VITERIA GASTEIZ, with 23 points difference. At first glance, this is very annoying because the first leg was won quite confidently with 14 points difference and now loses the direct comparison. At second glance, this is not so important because there were seven teams between Baskonia and Bavaria in the Friday table. But it is just so close that on four remaining match days even BASKONIA could still catch up with Bayern. In other words: For the team of coach Gordon Herbert, everything is possible from playoff home law to the complete departure.

That would have been good news before the season. Only that was not to be seen in Bavaria after the game against her last year’s coach Pablo Laso. “It was frustrating today, super frustrating that we couldn’t manage to control our defense and stop them,” said world champion Niels Giffey. Herbert’s comment in the PostGame interview even briefly failed for Herbert relationships: “We played a quarter, the second, otherwise they dominated the game,” said the Canadian.

At the beginning of the second half, the home team pulled away, the reasons are quickly explained in contrast to the complicated table situation: Bayern do not get the best opponents on the defensive, for example, 27 points from the Baskonia Guard Markus Howard. The team has always lived on the offensive from their good three quota, and she still leads these statistics in the Euroleague (12.4 successful throws per game). But at the moment the odds and Carsen Edwards are sacking at the spacers. That could also be seen in the Bundesliga leading game against Ulm, but the matter was going well last Monday.

The opponents have better adjusted to the game of Bayern

The fact that fruit at Baskonia in 26 minutes in the field only came out of the game eight times from the game shows that the opponents have better adjusted to the game of Bavaria. Quota men in the squad, i.e. players who could jump into the breach, deliver average performance. In addition, the lack of Oscar da Silva, Devin Booker and Onuralp Bitim is noticeable because fewer players are available for rotation at a high level. Strictly speaking, Bitim is not missing, the loan from Fenerbahce Istanbul travels under Herbert through Europe, but mostly only to look at the games completely from the bank, this time too.

In the crucial weeks, the question arises whether the Bayern game can become a little more variable before the team plays in Barcelona on Tuesday and welcomes Partizan Belgrade on Thursday-with a Bundesliga game against Rostock in the SAP Garden this Saturday. Against Barcelona it would also be important to decide the direct comparison in the event of a defeat (first leg 100: 78). As of now, each individual basket can be crucial for the question whether Bayern will define this season as successful or as a flop.