2023-06-17 00:35:11
Party in Ulm, around Ulm and around Ulm!
This championship is a real sensation! After three vice titles (1998, 2012, 2016), outsider Ratiopharm Ulm wins the title in the easyCredit Basketball Bundesliga for the first time in the club’s history! In game four, the Ulm favorites Telekom Baskets Bonn beat 74:70, putting them in an unassailable 3:1 lead in the best-of-five series.
What a crazy game four! After three out of four quarters it still looks like there will be a decisive fifth game in Bonn, who are ahead by eight points.
Flick’s incendiary speech “Kimmich has a mentality like Bryant and Jordan”
But then the mega final sprint of the sensations team this season. Ulm scored an unbelievable 18 (!) points in a row in the last section! Led by a strong Yago (24/25 points), the home team turns the game around and writes basketball history. Before the game, the superstar is the only one who caresses the championship trophy (weighing 6.4 kilos, fine silver-plated brass). Then he can present them to the 6000 freaking fans.
After the sensation, Yago falls onto the floor, overwhelmed, the fans sing “Oh, how beautiful that is.” The crowning glory for the Brazilian: after the game he was named the most valuable player in the playoffs – deservedly so.
On the other hand, sheer disappointment in Bonn, which could also have won the championship for the first time. Despite the gossip on Wednesday, the hope of the first in the main round (victory record: 32:2) was still there, 5,000 fans gathered at home for the public viewing. But they went home frustrated.
Baskets Coach Tuomas Iisalo (40) at Sport1: “Of course it’s incredibly disappointing, but Ulm was better in three games, we only did one, so Ulm deserves it.”
And yet: “It was an outstanding season, not only because of the results, but also in the daily cooperation with the boys.”
What a playoff series from Ulm. The team of German-Slovak coach Anton Gavel (38/became head coach in Ulm just before the start of the season) had already thrown out the big clubs Alba Berlin (3-1) and FC Bayern (3-0).
Gavel: “We are overjoyed. I’m lost for words. We showed big shots and big balls.”
Irre: Ulm not only defeated the top three teams, but also champions, cup winners and Champions League winners one after the other. A title has probably never been more deserved.
There is great sport not only from Ulm’s players, but also from the fans: at the award ceremony there is applause from the whole hall for runner-up Bonn.
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