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Berlin (dpa / lni) - The Braunschweig lions have surprisingly won the German basketball champions Alba Berlin.
The Lower Saxony won on Thursday in front of empty stands in the arena at Ostbahnhof with 87:82 (34:36) and are in the Bundesliga with 11:18 wins in the table in eleventh place.
Benedikt Turudic was Braunschweig's best scorer with 20 points.
Because the North Germans arrived late, the game began a quarter of an hour later.
It developed a very distracted and physical game.
Alba was initially very good defensively, so that Braunschweig only scored its first points after almost five and a half minutes - Alba was already leading 9-0.
But the Berliners also had offensively problems to find their rhythm.
At the beginning of the second quarter, Alba took a double-digit lead for the first time (23:13), but the guests were now more successful against the Berlin cover.
They were often too easy to get through, especially under the basket.
They also got more rebounds.
And Alba still struggled offensively.
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After changing sides, the Berliners looked increasingly tired and were often always one step too late.
Braunschweig took advantage of this and took the lead with 51:49 for the first time just two and a half minutes before the end.
Alba barely succeeded in doing anything, and the guests moved up to twelve points (50:62).
The Berlin team came up to 82:83 six seconds before the end - but that was all they could do.
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