Basketball Löwen Braunschweig: A Season of Surprises and Success

Finally, there are certificates in the World Champion League!

SPORT BILD has closely followed the 2023/24 season in the Easycredit Basketball Bundesliga, observing, researching and analyzing on match days and between games. Now the basketball reporters are awarding the BBL final certificate.

Final certificate BBL, part 5: Basketball Löwen Braunschweig

The Würzburg Baskets made it to the semifinals. The Chemnitz Niners established themselves as the third force behind FC Bayern and Alba Berlin and won the FIBA ​​Europe Cup. Rasta Vechta reached the play-offs as a newly promoted team. This BBL season had a few surprises in store. One of them is definitely the twelfth-placed Löwen Braunschweig.

Although the team of main shareholder Dennis Schröder (30) has the second smallest team budget, they fought for the play-ins until two match days before the end. And in the main round, with an average of 4,489 spectators, they recorded the largest growth in the entire league: plus 39.7 percent!

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This was also due to the Schröder effect.

The MVP of the World Cup final came to the first home game against Oldenburg and brought the World Cup trophy with them. 6,200 fans (sold out) came – and saw a sensational victory (91:86). The tone was set.

The team coached by Jesus Ramirez (44/Spain) won ten of their 15 victories in their home Volkswagen Arena. The youngest team in the league never faced relegation, even beat Bayern Munich in November (83:81) and was in 10th place after the international break after five wins in a row.

Lucky: For the first time this season, sporting director Nils Mittmann (45) did not have to sign any new players. This was also because the Lions were spared serious injuries for a long time. It was only at the end that the loss of Sananda Fru (20/knee) really hurt…

However, attributing the upswing to Dennis Schröder alone is too simplistic, even if the NBA star is always included in Mittmann’s personnel planning. Braunschweig’s approach of relying more on young (mostly) German players has created a clear identity.

The word has even spread to the NBA! “Representatives of NBA teams often ask me if I have someone in the club they should look at,” Schröder revealed recently.

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At the Lions, the German talents received around 30 percent of playing time – the top value in the BBL: This is also appreciated by the fans. “And I definitely see us in the top third of the league, we have earned a good name for ourselves on the market,” said Mittmann in the “Braunschweiger Zeitung”.

Especially since guys like Brandon and Nicholas Tischler (23) or block monster Jilson Bango (25) offered spectacular action. Brandon Tischler was therefore not satisfied with 12th place either. “Of course we don’t have to be disappointed in the overall picture, before the season we were even considered a candidate for relegation. But more could have been achieved – and I hate to say things like that.”

The reward for the strong season: The Lions have applied for the FIBA ​​Europe Cup – and could return to the international stage next season after 20 years! However, without the Tischlers (to Ludwigsburg/Chemnitz) and Bango (to Zaragoza) …

But that’s nothing new at the location: A year ago they had to cope with the departure of world champion David Krämer (27/to Granada) – and still played a better season. Schröder in the “Braunschweiger Zeitung”: “Planning the squad is a really mammoth task and challenge every year. But you still try to scout so that everything fits together well, that the team chemistry is right and that you’re playing at the top if possible. In recent years we’ve managed that really well.”

That’s why there is…

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2024-06-28 11:12:23
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