Bamberg hopes for rough coup

The brose baskets have a lot planned for the big game today (20.45 o'clock/fee livestream on sport1.De) against ZSKA moscow. "We have beaten a rough one at home in every euroleague season, on thursday it should be ZSKA", after the triumphs against olympiakos piraus two years ago and against panathinaikos athens last season, bamberg's success coach chris fleming has his sights set on the next surprise against one of the top teams in the kings' league.
A year ago, the brose baskets were also close to a sensation against the russian series champions: but two seconds before the end, superstar milos teodosic shocked the bambergers with his three-pointer and secured an 81-78 victory for the high favorites.
Bamberg's new top thrower boki nachbar hopes that this will not happen again "because with a win we were definitely just centimeters away from reaching the top 16." Nevertheless, the ex-NBA star realistic: "moscow is definitely the favorite in this game, but: it's up to us to keep playing well at home and maybe surprise them. We know how important this game is – and that's how we're going to approach it. With the will to win and put us in an excellent starting position", promises neighbor, who has been badly weakened by a virus lately, a heiben tanz to the star ensemble, which has already qualified for the top 16 with 6:1 victories just like barcelona (7:0) and istanbul (4:3).

Fleming: we are super focused
"Moscow is naturally a team playing for first place in our group. For us every game is very important. I believe this home game can give us the momentum we need for the do-or-die encounters that await us thereafter. That's why we want to be super focused", fleming already looking ahead to the two finals in vilnius and against belgrade. One of bamberger's two rivals will secure its second win of the season today in a direct duel in the serbian capital.
If the bamberger (2:5 victories) can build on the first half in istanbul, and if this time they are able to keep their concentration high for the entire 40 minutes, they will have the "red wall" in their hands in the back certainly an aubenseiterchance. On sunday in tubingen, the three-time double winners recovered well from their 73-82 defeat at besiktas (after a 42-36 lead at the break) and defeated the swabians 76-56 despite the travel hardships.
"We will have to play our best game in front of the great fans in the bamberg arena in order to win", stresses ZSKA coaching legend ettore messina ahead of bamberg match. In the first leg in moscow, the bambergers were still ahead 53:51 before the final quarter, before top thrower sonny weems (17 points), who last season still showed off with kaunas in bamberg, nenad krstic, vladimir micov (both 13) and viktor khryapa (10) with a 25:14 run in the last ten minutes still secured the 76:67 victory.
One thing is clear: if the bamberg team wants to keep its dream of beating ZSKA and reaching the top 16 alive in front of an estimated 500 million TV viewers (this week's top euroleague game will be broadcast live in 97 countries and cannot be seen on free TV in germany), the entire team will have to show the determination that anton gavel exemplifies in every game.