Andrea Trinchieri described the first defeat against Alba Berlin as a kick in the butt;
the opponent was only better for a few minutes, he claimed.
On Monday evening, Bayern Munich lost the second game in the playoff finals for the German championship, a home game, 58-71.
Michael Reinsch
Correspondent for sports in Berlin.
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There was no question of a sudden slump in his professionals at the end of a game at the end of a long season.
Alba Berlin dominated the Munich Audi Dom from start to finish.
"Now we're back against the wall again," Trinchieri summed up.
The third win will, as the second game looked, give the Berliners their third championship in a row in the third game this Friday (7 p.m. live on Sport1) and their eleventh overall;
should things turn out differently, the Berliners would have further opportunities in a fourth game on Sunday and a fifth on Wednesday.
They are already cup winners.
"It was very important that we dominated the baskets," commented Alba coach Israel Gonzales: "That was the key." He was very happy for his players, said the Spaniard, because they had shown a complete game.
Only six of the 24 long-distance shots (25 percent) his team made were successful, and only 29 of 69 shots from the field (46 percent) went into the net.
Maodo Lo hit one of 5 distance throws, Jaleen Smith needed 7 throws for his only three-pointer.
However, Alba made up for the lack of accuracy by the fact that the players grabbed the rebound and thus fought for new shots on offense 14 times and stopped them 26 times when Munich missed throws.
The Munich team threw even worse than the Berlin team: only 6 out of 22 long-distance shots hit the target (27 percent), 40 out of 64 throws from the game went wrong.
Ognjen Jaramaz scored a total of 7 points and a field shot quota of 30 percent with a single hit from 6 distance throws, Andreas Obst only hit 3 of 11 throws (8 points).