German League, Regular Season, Game 13: December 14-16, 2007 - GERMANY

May 23, 2013

German League, Regular Season, Game 13: December 14-16, 2007

Bobby Brown - Alba Berlin (PHOTO: www.albaberlin.de)

Wins for Alba Berlin and Artland Dragons kept the pair in first and second place in the German League, while defending champ Brose Baskets Bamberg lost for the second week in a row to drop to third place. Alba Berlin defeated the Deutsche Bank Skyliners 74-64 to improve to 11-2. Bobby Brown scored 14 and Patrick Femerling was active all over the court to lead Berlin. The Dragons downed New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig 88-66 behind Adam Chubb’s 23 points. The Koln 99ers outlasted Brose Baskets 94-92 in overtime at the end of an intense encounter. Yassin Idbihi forced overtime and Aleksandar Nadjfeji scored the game-winner for the hosts. Both times Bamberg had the last ball with a chance to win/tie the game, but Daren Fenn and Predrag Suput missed their respective shots. Nadjfeji finished with a season-high 24. Bayer Giants Leverkusen topped EnBW Ludwigsburg on the road 87-93. Brendan Winters drilled 5 threes as Leverkusen shot 13 for 23 from behind the arc (56.5%) to join Bamberg in a tie for third place. In other games, Giessen 46ers routed Walter Tigers Tubingen 90-50 as Corey Rouse posted 22 points and 12 rebounds, EWE Baskets Oldenburg beat TBB Trier on the road 67-74 thanks to 19 points and 13 rebounds from Jasmin Perkovic, digibu Baskets slammed ratiopharm Ulm 81-106 as Tim Black scored 23 points and dished 8 assists, Eisbaren Bremerhaven edged Science City Jena 73-72 and Telekom Baskets Bonn defeated BG 74 Gottingen 75-79.

The Koln 99ers outlasted Brose Baskets 94-92 in overtime at the end of an intense encounter. Yassin Idbihi forced overtime and Aleksandar Nadjfeji scored the game-winner for the hosts. Both times Bamberg had the last ball with a chance to win/tie the game, but Daren Fenn and Predrag Suput missed their respective shots. The game was close and intense throughout and came down to the final seconds. Demond Greene’s free throws with 12.3 seconds left gave Bamberg an 80-83 lead. Then the visitors fouled Misan Nikagbatse, to keep Koln from attempting a three-pointer. Nikagbatse made the first, but missed the second and Idbihi scooped in for the rebound and converted it into his first points of the game to tie it at 83-83. Darren Fenn’s last-ditch attempt to win it for Brose Baskets at the buzzer missed and the game went to overtime. The game remained tight for the extra period and Suput tied it at 92-92 with 34 seconds remaining. Nikagbatse missed from long range, but the rebound fell to Toby Bailey, who fed Nadjfeji for what would be the game-winner. Suput would still have one last shot, but he missed allowing the 99ers to celebrate the win. Nadjfeji finished with a season-high 24 to lead Koln, Immanuel McElroy added 19, Milko Bjelica 16, Nikagbatse 14 and Bailey had 10 points and 8 rebounds. Suput posted a season-best 31 for Bamberg, Steffen Hamann and Greene added 14 each and Robert Garrett had 11.

Alba Berlin defeated the Deutsche Bank Skyliners 74-64 to improve to 11-2. Bobby Brown scored 14 and Patrick Femerling was active all over the court to lead Berlin. The hosts outscored Frankfurt 24-9 in the second period en route to a 42-30 halftime lead, which stood up the rest of the way. Berlin also outrebounded Frankfurt 34-21 and had 17 assists to the Skyliners’ 9. Goran Nikolic added 10 points and Aleksandar Rasic had 9, while Femerling finished with 9 points, 6 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals as all 10 Berliners scored a basket. Derrick Allen paced the Skyliners with 21 points and 10 rebounds, Koko Archibong added 14 and Ilian Evitmov 12. The Dragons downed New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig 88-66 behind Adam Chubb’s 23 points. Artland led 43-25 at halftime and coasted the rest of the way to remain hot on Berlin’s tail. E.J. Rowland added 14 points and Lamont McIntosh and Darius Hall had 10 each for the Dragons. Andrew Drevo led Braunschweig with 15. Bayer Giants Leverkusen topped EnBW Ludwigsburg on the road 87-93. Brendan Winters drilled 5 threes as Leverkusen shot 13 for 23 from behind the arc (56.5%) to join Bamberg in a tie for third place. Nate Fox added 19 for the Giants, while Michel Ferreira do Nascimento and Brandon Woudstra had 22 each for Ludwigsburg and Ronald Ross added 14.

LAST GAME GAME 13 December 14-16, 2007
Day	Match	Result
Dec. 14	Artland vs. Phantoms	88-66
Dec. 15	Köln 99ers vs. Brose	94-92
Dec. 15	ALBA BERLIN vs. Dt. Bank	74-64
Dec. 15	Giessen46ers vs. Tigers	90-50
Dec. 15	EnBW L'burg vs. L'kusen	87-93
Dec. 15	TBB Trier vs. EWE Baskets	67-74
Dec. 16	Bremerhaven vs. Jena	73-72
Dec. 16	ratiopharm Ulm vs. digibu	81-106
Dec. 16	Göttingen vs. Telekom	75-79

NEXT GAME GAME 14 December 20-22, 2007
Day	Match
Dec. 20	Giants L'kusen vs. Jena
Dec. 21	digibu vs. TBB Trier
Dec. 22	Dt. Bank SKY.vs.Köln 99ers
Dec. 22	NY'er vs. Giessen46ers
Dec. 22	EnBW L'burg vs. Artland
Dec. 22	Telekom vs. ALBA BERLIN
Dec. 22	Tigers vs. BG 74 Göttingen
Dec. 22	EWE vs. Bremerhaven
Feb. 6	Brose Baskets vs. Ulm

	STANDINGS	TG	W	L	P+	P-
1	ALBA BERLIN	13	11	2	1075	939
2	Artland Dragons	13	10	3	1014	899
3	Brose Baskets	13	9	4	954	821
4	Bayer Giants Leverkusen	13	9	4	1044	1015
5	New Yorker Phantoms B.	13	8	5	924	940
6	ratiopharm Ulm	13	8	5	1073	1056
7	Telekom Baskets Bonn	13	8	5	968	928
8	Eisbären Bremerhaven	12	7	5	917	882
9	Köln 99ers	13	7	6	995	1000
10	EWE Baskets Oldenburg	13	7	6	958	933
11	Deutsche Bank SKYLINERS	12	6	6	843	912
12	EnBW Ludwigsburg	13	5	8	1061	1066
13	WALTER Tigers Tübingen	13	5	8	887	933
14	digibu Baskets	12	4	8	949	980
15	Giessen 46ers	13	4	9	1018	1095
16	BG 74 Göttingen	12	3	9	984	1045
17	TBB Trier	13	3	10	994	1097
18	Science City Jena	13	1	12	896	1013