Bonn / Ulm - Many expect a defeat, but the Bonn hope for a "Big Point": Toward ratiopharm Ulm Telekom Baskets must play two of the quarter-final playoff series ran away.
The hall can Ulmer Kuhberg on Thursday (17 clock) is already covered a preliminary decision.
"When a team is behind 1-0 at home and one, two actions may not succeed, the engine has got time to stutter," hopes Baskets coach Mike Koch on nervousness in the Ulm "Sparrow". The limited experience "there already plays a role."
For before domestic audiences Mike Taylor's team is properly under pressure. A 2-0 away win of the baskets and the associated leadership in front of the third game on Sunday in the Telekom Dome would like a premature decision.
Just because the Ulmer really rely on their home record would be a bust for the "Sparrow" a disaster.
"In the narrow hall, the Kuhberg Ulmer are very strong, just as we live," warns Mike Koch, the 3000 men adopt "Kuhberg-hell".
To put the opponent under pressure right from the start, there is for him only a slogan: "We need even more of them go, nice to play, we have to play hard." Above all, the "soul of the game, Ulmer, Jeff Gibbs check to have the baskets aggressively defend as a team.
Gibbs in the first game came on eleven points and 16 rebounds strong. But, said Koch, "when Jeff Gibbs makes 100 points and we win anyway, is that really matter to me ..."
