Three matches before the end of the regular season, have reached the basketball players of FC Bayern a big season target: The people of Munich are uncatchable in first place in the standings.

Munich – Three games before the end of the regular season, have reached the basketball players of FC Bayern a big season target: The people of Munich are uncatchable in first place in the standings. Even if the remaining games against Giessen, Ulm and Bonn are lost, can’t unlock the tracker Oldenburg and ALBA Berlin. This is, in the first place in the connected home round in all three possible Playoff is the Team of Dejan Radonjic sure. With the 85:78 home victory on Tuesday against Bamberg FCB captain Danilo Barthel and his colleagues had sealed their League dominance.

“It was very important to us, the main round on the first table, rank complete,” said Barthel in retrospect. And Mr Nihad Djedovic reminded of the past year: “last season, we saw once again that the home can be crucial.” Both the quarter-finals against Frankfurt (3:2), as well as the final against ALBA Berlin (3:2) were only decided in the deciding fifth game. Also, since Bayern had the home advantage.

Now everything should be done in order to achieve the second goal of the season: the defense of the championship. “We have trained in the past two weeks very hard, almost like in the pre-season,” said Djedovic. “The remaining games we see as the last test for the Playoffs.” 18. May start in Munich in the first round. As the opponent in the quarter-finals is hot, has yet to be determined. Two of the biggest favorites were able to beat Bayern. Because only 48 hours before the win against Bamberg Djedovic & co. had also won against ALBA Berlin (85:75) . “We have presented to us in both Play very well,” said Djedovic. “However, that means nothing. In a Playoff series, it looks different.“ Also veteran Alex King looks at the not yet to be fulfilled. “The first place is not enough for us. We still need to work more on our game.“

For the game against Bamberg is a very special. And, although he had nothing to do with the victory against the Swiss franc. Ex-FCB captain Anton Gavel, who had the end of the last season of his career, was adopted on Tuesday officially. “We have long sought a suitable occasion to do this,” said FCB-managing Director Marko Pesic. The game against Bamberg, where the Gavel from 2009 to 2014, had played, was the perfect opportunity. Djedovic: “Beautiful and it could not be. It is the meet of his Ex-clubs, his family, and his friends were here. He has earned it.“ Gavel, the dispatch of the 2014 to 2018 for Bayern, thanked all those Involved and was visibly moved. From the Basketball, he does not want to say goodbye anyway. Since this season, the 34-Year-old as a TV expert. Still, he is so often in the Audi Dome. Djedovic, laughing: “Anton trained almost every day individually here. And I hope it stays that way.“

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