Hamburg. The Towers hospital is gradually thinning out. Wimberg and Maronka will be in Ulm on Saturday, Kennedy will have a new chance.
After the first EuroCup home win in 19 months against Turk Telekom Ankara (89:77), the basketball players want to Veolia Towers Hamburg end another negative series: the last away win in the Basketball Bundesliga took place on May 14th, in the play-in game at EWE Baskets Oldenburg. On Saturday (8 p.m./Dyn) the schedule is available ratiopharm Ulm now the next opportunity.
The Ulm team, who won 84:82 in the EuroCup on Wednesday evening against top Italian club Trento, have only lost one game this Bundesliga season – away in Oldenburg. The South Germans emerged victorious in the remaining four games and are therefore at the top of the table. The Towers, currently in 13th place, go into the game as underdogs.
Hamburg Towers: Two injured players return
It was questionable until the end as to who could actually be on the floor for Hamburg. Jan-Niklas Wimberg, Zsombor Maronka and Benedikt Turudić were still injured on Tuesday. Now there is good news from the Towers hospital. New signing Wimberg, who is 2.06 meters tall like Maronka (2.08 meters) and is one of the “big men”, is in Ulm after breaking his leg in the summer and could make his debut for Hamburg.
And there is also news for Maronka, who has been out for weeks with an ankle injury. “It annoys him,” said Towers head coach Benka Barloschky on Tuesday after the EuroCup game against Ankara about the 21-year-old Hungarian’s state of mind: “It’s always a day-to-day decision as to whether he can play.” The The day has now apparently come. According to Abendblatt information, Maronka is traveling with the team to Ulm. A hotel room is reserved for him.
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Turudić, on the other hand, will still need time to recover from his muscular problems in his neck. Keondre Kennedy, who recently had difficulty keeping up at the desired level, will have a new chance in Ulm to convince Barloschky and the rest of the coaching team of his qualities. He is now in debt.
