After all, one thing is certainly for the basketball players of FC Bayern: the training on Tuesday fails. Because this week of all the decision for international competition, there is a catch -up game in the Bundesliga (BBL) – and the same leads the Primus Bayern Munich to the worst pursuer Ratiopharm Ulm. The fact that the BBL top game on Tuesday evening (8 p.m.) just 48 hours before the final Euroleague main game against the title aspirant Fenerbahce Istanbul in the sold-out SAP Garden did not fit into the stuff at all, coach Gordon Herbert let me know with unusually clear words: “I don’t care about Tuesday because it is in the plan. Playing.
Bavaria, compared to the international competition, does not feel very well supported by their domestic league anyway. While other top European teams can take a breath before important games because games in national company are laid at short notice, the Munich view is not the case – see Tuesday.
Managing Director Marko Pesic has repeatedly emphasized that the domestic division is the bread-and-butter competition for his club, but also explained clearly that this season he expects participation in the playoffs in the highest European competition. Which of course also applies to his first sporting employee: “Unfortunately, we gave away the Maccabi game, now we have a second option on Thursday,” says Herbert, with a view to the game against the Turkish champion, who is already qualified as the current third in the table for the quarter-finals.
For Bayern, the starting point is much more complicated, at the moment the Munich team are facing the table seventh before FC Barcelona. But the Real Madrid and Efes Istanbul, placed in front of Bayern, also have 19:14 victories. Red Stern Belgrade and Paris lurk in ninth and ten, each with 18:15 victories. And because places seven to ten play the last two starting places for the quarter -finals in so -called playins, Bayern should win as far as possible – for a good starting position. Because everything is possible from fifth to ten arithmetical.
Trainer Gordon Herbert could do without the game in Ulm, returnee Devin Booker is happy
They are responsible for the fact that the Munich threatens this exhaustive extra layer – because they were still gave out a clear lead in the final seconds at Maccabi Tel Aviv, which is playing its home games in Belgrade at the weekend. After all, Devin Booker returned after two months of injury and knew how to convince against Braunschweig in the 94: 72 victory on Sunday.
If FCB coach Herbert will spare Herbert on Tuesday, he left open, but it is certain that he does not take his best line-up in Swabian. Most recently, two key players paused in Nick Weiler-Babb and Carsen Edwards, whose top form for playing against Fenerbahce is essential. The Ulm, which started internationally in the Eurocup, which is a level below the Euroleague, have long since left there and can focus fully on national operation.
And the champions from 2023 is in a good mood, at the weekend the Chemnitz third in the table was dismantled with 117: 87 points. Of course, Bayern are different caliber, even if they do not arrive in top line -up. In Justus Hollatz and the Australian international Jack White, who was subject to the Australian international last week, are class players in the squad who are only allowed to play BBL due to expired change periods.
In addition, the champion remains at the top of the table in the event of a defeat, because the Munichers have 19: 6 wins, Ulm is 18: 8. And there is even someone in the Munich team in Devin Booker who is looking forward to the extra layer in Ulm: “Yes, we are ready for this week. We know Fener, we know Ulm. This will be good opponents to get better. But we have to win, hopefully we will succeed. I need the game in Ulm. I am not yet at 100 percent, but these boys give me self -confidence to play my game.”