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Hamburg (dpa / lno) - Coach Pedro Calles criticized his team despite the 105: 78 (51:31) success of his Hamburg Towers in the basketball Bundesliga against the Central German BC.
"We weren't better during the Weißenfelsers' chase to catch up in the second half," said the Spaniard on Saturday evening in the edel-optics.de arena.
Although it was enough for a clear victory in the end, the table seventh had it become unnecessarily exciting again against the 15th at the beginning of the final quarter and meanwhile let the lead shrink to seven points.
That was reminiscent of the 85:80 in the first leg, when the Towers had already led with 18 points at the break and then still shook.
«It was exactly the same situation.
I really hope that we will learn our lessons from this experience and that such mistakes will not happen again in the future, ”emphasized the coach.
The hosts had allowed the MBC to close a clear gap before the break.
Then the Towers put down a 20: 2 series and thus provided a thick cushion.
They made the game similarly clear even after the MBC caught up again.
"Calles has taken a break and told us that we have to concentrate more and focus on our game," said Hamburg's best thrower Terry Allen (24): "We gave Weißenfels too many quick, easy points, but that's not our way of playing defense. "
The Towers can do better already on Wednesday (7:00 p.m.).
The Löwen Braunschweig will be our guests.
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