Skyliners Frankfurt are tumbling towards relegation in the Basketball Bundesliga | hessenschau.de

The Skyliners Frankfurt slipped even deeper into the relegation swamp due to the bankruptcy in Bamberg. However, the team of new coach Luca Dalmonte has not yet given up.

The basketball players of the Skyliners Frankfurt almost crowned their race to catch up in Bamberg. After a 37:50 half-time deficit, seconds before the end, only a three-pointer was needed for extra time. But the hopes were dashed with Tez Robertson’s shot at the ring of the basket, relegation from the basketball Bundesliga is getting closer.

“Which still gives me hope…”

“Numbers don’t lie,” said Skyliners head coach Luca Dalmonte after the game on Sunday, not just referring to the 72:75 that ended up on the scoreboard from Frankfurt’s perspective. You shouldn’t give your opponent 20 more shots, emphasized the Italian, who suffered his third defeat in his third game with his new team.

In fact, the Skyliners made numerous mistakes. Since Bamberg could not use many of them and completely lost the thread in the last quarter, the guests were close again. “Somehow it’s been the whole season that we lose games at the end. I can’t say whether it’s because of our mentality or physique,” said Marcel Ponitka, previously the best man in Frankfurt’s dress, after the game. “What still gives me hope is that we’re a good group and nobody’s going to back off.”

First goal: end the losing streak

Dalmonte also found encouraging words: “I admire the commitment of my team and the reaction of the players in the second half. We didn’t change any tactical things. We simply put more concentration and effort into every ball possession.”

Since the competition in the table cellar mostly scored points at the weekend, it is becoming increasingly hopeless for the Skyliners Frankfurt in the fight to stay up in the league. The saving shore, in this case the Central German Basketball Club, is three wins away – the Hessians still have seven games left. “We just have to end this series of defeats,” says Ponitka. The game in Göttingen next Wednesday (7 p.m.) will show whether the Frankfurters can finally succeed.