The baskets hold up for a long time? but not through

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So – with the number of new infections exploding – it could be a really turbulent season for Germany’s basketball players who want to start the new season on November 6th. For Würzburg’s new guard Cameron Hunt, who made a very decent competitive debut, not only because of his eleven points and two assists on the field in just under 25 minutes, it “still feels very strange to play in front of fewer fans”. Even though he – like all his teammates – is happy to finally be able to play properly again after a seven and a half month break.

And the Baskets played correctly against Ludwigsburg for 33, 34 minutes, in which they always acted at eye level, in the meantime also led by eight points and did not allow themselves to be fooled by a seven-point deficit, but came up again. And thanks to a threesome with the quarter-end siren by Joshua Obiesie, we even went into the final section with the smallest possible guidance.

In this then the skins swam away. “Mainly because we didn’t move the ball anymore,” said Wucherer, who believed that his men had acted “sometimes a little helplessly” towards the end. In any case, the 47-year-old was “not surprised that we played well over long stretches”. With his newcomers, of whom he had sent four to the jump ball in addition to Florian Koch (Hunt, Taylor Persons, Zach Smith and Mark Ogden), he could also be largely satisfied when seeing his protégé Jordan Hulls from last year, who played against his ex-club went to the point quite motivated and threw 13 points.

It goes without saying that not everything is going smoothly at the beginning of a season – which of course also applies to opponents Ludwigsburg. Nevertheless: The rebuff feared by some Baskets fans did not exist – on the contrary: the appearance for a good three quarters can certainly give the Würzburgers courage for upcoming tasks.