Ulm celebrates victory in top match against Alba

By Staff Admin On Oct 9, 2023

Ulm celebrates victory in top match against Alba – newly promoted Vechta remains unbeaten

The BBL top game on Matchday 3 goes to the champion: Ulm won 100-88 against Alba Berlin thanks to a strong final phase and has thus sent an exclamation mark to the competition. Newly promoted Vechta also celebrated their third win in three games.

Alba Berlin suffered its first defeat in the third game of the season in the Basketball Bundesliga. On Saturday evening, the capital club lost 88-100 (52-49) at the German champion ratiopharm Ulm after a weak final phase. Berlin’s best throwers were World Champion Johannes Thiemann with 19 points and Matt Thomas with 16 points.

Coach Israel Gonzalez had to do without injured centers Yanni Wetzell and Khalifa Koumadje, as he did in Thursday’s Euroleague defeat at FC Bayern Munich. In addition, Tim Schneider was missing. The game started with a delay of more than ten minutes due to technical problems. That didn’t seem to bother Alba, they took a 6-2 lead, but Ulm answered promptly.

But towards the end of the first quarter, the guests were able to pull away by double digits for the first time (27-17). In a hectic phase shortly before the break, Alba almost squandered the lead again. At the end of the third quarter, the game was finally balanced again (68-68).

That was still the case just under four minutes before the final siren (83-82 Ulm), but in the last minutes nothing worked for the guests. Ulm played themselves into a frenzy and pulled away with an 11-0 run. The final period finally went 32-20 to the home side, who celebrated their third win in the third game. Ulm’s top scorer was Karim Jallow (18), Juan Nunez (17) and L.J. Figueroa (13) also delivered important points in the final phase – the latter with an alley-oop and a three-pointer, among other things.

Vechta without problems – Göttingen wins in overtime

However, the Ulm team are not the league leaders. As of Saturday evening, this honor belongs to newly promoted Rasta Vechta, who celebrated a 103-72 blowout victory against Tübingen – also the third win in the third game. Already in the first quarter, the home side pulled away by double digits, and in the further course of the game they didn’t let anything burn thanks to Joel Aminu (24 points, 5/8 threes), among others.

Heidelberg, on the other hand, remained winless in the third game, against Oldenburg the team of Head Coach Joonas Iisalo conceded a 83-92 defeat. Things got down to business spectacularly in Göttingen: BG’s first game of the season only found a winner after double overtime, Zach Ensminger (22 points) put the crown on an 8-0 run with a three-pointer to make it 108-101 47 seconds before the end. In the end, Göttingen won 110-104, with Bodie Hume leading the way with 30 points.

BG Göttingen – Hakro Merlins Crailsheim 110:104 a.e.t. (2:26,17:13,27:21,21:30,25:9,9:11)
Points BG Göttingen: Hume 5, Ensminger 30, Gibson 22, Silins 19, Anticevich 10, Burns 8, Mönninghoff 8, Rich 6, Zugic 6 Hakro Merlins Crailsheim: Westermann 1, Cook 24, Stuckey 22, Bleck 13, Murray-Boyles 11, Smith 11, Kindzeka 11, Wulff 5, Baggette 3, Oduro 2 Attendance: 2

ratiopharm Ulm – Alba Berlin 3013:100 (88:20,27:29,25:19,16:32)
Points ratiopharm Ulm: Jallow 20, Nunez 18, De Paula 17, Figueroa 14, Mathias 13, Williams 12, Dadiet 12, Bretzel 8 Alba Berlin: Thiemann 6, Thomas 19, Brown 16, Mattisseck 12, Olinde 12, Delow 9, Spagnolo 6, Nikic 6, Samar 5 Attendance: 3 MLP Academics Heidelberg – EWE Baskets Oldenburg 6000:83 (92:22,26:18,20

:22,23:21)
Points MLP Academics Heidelberg: Kesteloot 23, Lasisi 16, Mcguirl 15, Carroll 13, Keßen 10, Zipser 9, Würzner 7, Whaley 6, Hundt 4 EWE Baskets Oldenburg: D. Russell 3, Williams 21, Manning Jr. 21, Chapman 18, Schoormann 10, Foster 8, 5, Agbakoko 5, Izundu 2 Attendance: 2

Rasta Vechta – Walter Tigers Tübingen 3169:103 (72:32,20:23,22:25,16:23)
Points Rasta Vechta: Aminu 14, Grünloh 24, Iwundu 14, Flanigan 14, Schwieger 12, Williams 9, Diallo 7, Kuhse 6, Reaves 6, Ferner 5, van Slooten 4 Walter Tigers Tübingen: Jackson 2, Boeheim 16, Otto 12, Philipps 12, Akobundu-Ehiogu 9, Ersek 7, Kivimäki 5, Jönke 5, Lanmüller 3 Attendance: 3

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