Bayern and Baskonia seek the key to victory
BARCELONA, 22 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Bitci Baskonia visit Bayern this Thursday at the Audi Dome in Munich (7:00 p.m.), on matchday 17 of the Euroleague Regular Phase, a close of a bad first round for both teams, who arrive at the meeting in a bad streak of results and looking for the key that frees them.
Despite the fact that with the arrival of Neven Spahija it seemed that Baskonia was improving, nothing could be further from the truth. The Baskonians have lost five of their last six games and, in Munich, they are under pressure to win so as not to be further sunk in the table by a team that is not having a good time either.
Although it is true that Bayern, in their fiefdom, have won the last four games played, they have just lost to Olympiacos and Red Star. They need air in Bavaria and, despite starting from a greater depth, Baskonia must fight to win and see themselves further from the abyss.
It will be a difficult challenge, with only one victory in eight starts so far in the Euroleague, whose Regular Phase reaches its halfway point. Very bad numbers as visitors who will try to make up in Munich. And on the Vitorian side they cling to Fontecchio or Giedraitis, their top scorers.
A Wade Baldwin IV also contributes points who will face a Bayern that they defended last season, being also their top scorer. Now dressed in the colors of Baskonia, the point guard and guard want to impress his former teammates and achieve the sixth victory for the Vitorians, currently third from the tail.
In addition, his visit to Fenerbahçe ended with a tough 75-53 against, with a very low score and a result that left the team depleted. But they say that there is no better way to forget a hard setback than to win at the first chance. The bad thing is that in Bayern they will appeal to the same. A clash of needs, of doubts, between a Bayern that does not want to miss the train of the ‘play-offs’ and a Baskonia that yearns to get rid of its chains.
DATASHEET.
–EQUIPMENT.
BAYERN MUNICH: Walden, Rivers, Thomas, Rubit y Lucic –posible quinteto inicial–; Hamlet Babb, Hunter, Jaramaz, George, Obst, Dedovic, Schilling.
BITCI BASKONIA: Peters, Baldwin IV, Sedekerskis, Fontecchio and Enoch -possible starting quintet-; Barrera, Marinkovic, Granger, Costello, Giedraitis, Nnoko, Kurucs.
– REFEREES: Jovcic, Rocha and Sukys.
– PAVILION: Audi Dome.