83:80 after extra time in the first cup round: Alba Berlin wins an almost lost game – sport
Luke Sikma was very close to Jeremy Morgan, but the Bonn player got a pretty passable throw at the end of the game. The ball flew in the direction of the basket in high ground, peeked in briefly – and then jumped out again. The 3115 spectators in the arena at Ostbahnhof collectively breathed a sigh of relief. Alba Berlin had somehow saved itself in overtime in a game that was believed to be lost. There the team of coach Israel Gonzalez finally prevailed and prevented the early cup.
In the past four years Alba had always reached the final, in the last nine always at least the semi-finals. With 83:80 (14:17, 17:21, 19:19, 20: 13/13: 10) after extra time, the Berliners are now in the quarter-finals. “It was a do-or-die game, so this win is extremely important. We want to win the trophy, ”said Malte Delow. “Something like this welds a team together.”
The starting position for Alba was anything but easy. Against the Bonn team, which got off to a strong start under the new coach Tuomas Iisa, the Berlin team lost ten days ago at the BBL opener and staff has occasionally even worsened. In the clear defeat in the first Euroleague game on Friday in Barcelona, the Swedish three-man specialist Marcus Eriksson suffered a bruised rib and had to take the longer injured Christ Koumadje, Johannes Thiemann and Kresimir Nikic. The youth center Christoph Tilly field also closed and so one position remained in Alba’s squad.
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In the league game against Bonn, the Berlin team got off to a very good start, but then gradually lost their rhythm. This time it is missing from the start. Sometimes nice moves, but the miserable throwing quota caused disappointed groans in the hall again and again. Gonzalez tried it with impulses from outside and switched in the middle of the first quarter.
The guests also struggled offensively, but were quickly in the lead throughout. After a quiet start, it was again the little point guard Parker Jackson-Cartwright who caused Alba big problems with his enormous speed. Ten days ago he was the outstanding player with 25 points and on Sunday afternoon there are even 26 points on the video cube for him.
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At Alba, Oscar da Silva, who was only signed up on Thursday, was used for the first time in the second quarter and introduced himself with a dunk, which the hall spokesman ended with an enthusiastic “Welcome to Berlin!”. From the hosts’ point of view, there wasn’t much more reason to be euphoric. In view of 13 partially completely avoidable ball losses and a weak quota of three, Alba was still served quite well at the break with the 31:38.
At the beginning of the second half it looked shortly afterwards as if the Berlin nuns would find their rhythm. But in a real cup fight, which was not for basketball aesthetes, Bonn always found an answer. The game was now surging back and forth and the Berliners were running out of time. But with a threesome from Maodo Lo, who had been inconspicuous up to then, and one at the end of a 7-0 run, they saved themselves in extra time – and finally in the next round of the cup.
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