Bayern’s basketball players in hunt mode | Munich evening newspaper
Munich/Lyon– It was definitely a key game in their current Euroleague campaign, which the FC Bayern basketball team had to play against French champions Asvel Villeurbanne in Lyon on Tuesday evening. With a 77:68 success, the Munich team impressively won the duel between their neighbors in the table, who were tied on points, and thus secured a very specific big point in the fight for the playoffs.
After a complicated start to the season with four defeats and numerous absences due to corona and injuries, the FCBB is suddenly back in the thick of things. With their tenth win in their 21st game of the season, Munich, who won at Baskonia on Friday (84:77), moved up to tenth place in the table. Eighth place, which still entitles you to take part in the knockout round, is therefore already within sight again.
Trinchieri focuses fully on the Alba cracker
In the German duel with Alba Berlin on Friday (8.30 p.m.), Bayern have the chance to equalize their win/loss record and further increase the pressure on the teams ahead of them. The Bavarians in hunting mode! Or not?
“I don’t know the standings and I won’t look at them either,” said Bayern’s coach Andrea Trinchieri and practiced understatement, “because we have another game in 72 hours, I have to focus on my team and look at the table when the time comes.”
The Italian is aware that his team’s possible path back to the playoffs will be a very long and difficult one. The course of the season so far, in which the pendulum has already shown quite large swings in both directions at Bayern, has already made that more than clear.
Against Villeurbanne: Augustine Rubit becomes the match winner
Augustine Rubit, on the other hand, is becoming more and more of a fixture in the Munich team. The American was the top scorer in Lyon with 17 points and even secured a double-double with ten rebounds, i.e. double-digit values in two categories. “I always try to give what the team needs from me,” said the match winner modestly, explaining: “We matched their physique, took away their transition and each held our opponent. That was the goal and we did it. “
In any case, Trinchieri was satisfied. “We were confident, very reliable, very focused,” he said. “This is our third away game in six days, backed by a great win. We fought and we’re going home with a very, very certain victory.”
Ognjen Jaramaz (eleven points) and national player Andreas Obst (ten) were also able to score double digits. Only Corey Walden’s foot injury, who twisted his ankle in the first half, dampened the positive mood at FCBB a little.
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