Preliminary report
Basketball head coach Roel Moors is looking forward to the first home game of the new season: “Playing in front of 6,000 fans in magenta-colored T-shirts at the start of the season is great fun! This is an excellent campaign that will definitely give us a lot of good energy! ” And his team will need a lot of energy: In the fourth competitive game in eight days and the second Bundesliga game in four days, the Baskets want to celebrate their first win in the easyCredit BBL!
Because in the home opener, SYNTAINICS MBC presents its business card in #HEARTBERG: The Weißenfels team started the new season with a clear 103:79 away victory against ProA-Club GIESSEN 46ers in the first round of the BBL Cup . The top scorer of the game was American power forward Tyren Johnson, who scored a whopping 30 points. He was followed by five other players, Michael Devoe (22 points), Charles Callison (12), former Bonn player Martin Breunig (12), John Bryant (11) and Spencer Reaves (10), who scored in double-digits. points.
Reaves can be described as a Weißenfels transfer coup, after all, the brother of NBA star Austin Reaves was one of the best long-range shooters in the entire Bundesliga last season while still wearing the RASTA Vechta jersey with a unique which is a three-point rate of 50.0 percent. Even in the 2022/2023 season, previously for the Bamberg Baskets, the left hand has already obtained a 50 percent mark for “Downtown” (47.5 percent). In the first game of the Bundesliga against the Rostock Seawolves, which Weißenfels almost lost 84:87 after overtime, Reaves quickly became the top scorer of his team with 15 points and four three-pointers. With five players scoring in double digits for MBC at the start of the BBL, it has been shown once again that the team under new head coach Janis Gailitis has plenty of attacking options.
Latvian Gailitis moved from Riga to Weißenfels prematurely. He has been active in the Latvian capital club for the past 17 years, first as a player, then as an assistant coach and for the past nine years as head coach. During this time, Gailitis celebrated six championships and three cup victories. The new Weißenfels head coach is also the assistant coach of the Latvian national team. In Weißenfels, Gailitis replaced former Baskets coach Predrag Krunic (1998-2005 and 2016-2019).
Moors: “MBC also almost lost the first game, but that shouldn’t play a role for us. They are a good team against whom we have to defend with intensity and physicality for more than 40 minutes. That’s what key to victory. We have no excuses tomorrow and we have to make sure we don’t depend on whether our shots go in or not!”
Broadcast on TV
Also this season, Dyn shows all easyCredit BBL games, the BBL Cup and the Basketball Champions League live! The extensive basketball live program will be supplemented by editorial formats freely available on the Dyn platform and subsequently through Dyn’s social media channels. Dyn is available through web browsers, mobile devices, tablets, streaming sticks and smart TVs.
The broadcast will start at 7:45 pm. The on-site commentator is Chris Schmidt.