FC Bayern Basketball wins the fifth and deciding game against ratiopharm Ulm by 81:77 and is German champion of the easycreditBBL for the seventh time after 1954, 1955, 2014, 2018, 2019 and 2024. The top scorer on Thursday evening in the completely sold-out SAP Garden was Devin Booker with 19 points.
Die Stimmen:
Gordon Herbert, Headcoach, FC Bayern München: Congratulations to Ulm, they had an exceptional year. It was tough to play against them with their defensive intensity. We played outstanding basketball in the first 15 or 16 minutes today. Then we got careless and Ulm gained the momentum with fastbreak points. You have to give them credit for that - they never gave up fighting. In the end, we had guys on court who were on their last legs: Napier, Weiler-Babb... but then Johannes Voigtmann had this monster block and hit two really big shots. Now that Marko Pesic is leaving, this title goes to him. It was great to work with him. He never lets you be satisfied, he always wants more. That made me a better coach. He was great to work with. He never lets you be satisfied, he always wants more. That made me a better coach. I'm glad we won this for Marko. He has worked so hard for many years to get this club to where it is, one of the best organizations in Europe. I don't think he's going far, but still... I'm very proud of the players. For me and the international players, it was the 365th day in a row at work. 365 days. Last year I started with the national team on June 27. It's nice that the year ended like this. (...) Of course there was pressure. Bayern is all about titles. That can be exhausting. We talked before game four about getting the passion back: Don't think about the title, let's just enjoy what we're doing. (...) I think we've won a lot of games like that in the end, especially in the Euroleague. We had momentum for 15 minutes, then Ulm had the momentum for five minutes and then it went back and forth. (...) We didn't know if Devin could even play game four, he's actually injured. If he couldn't, we brought on Jo. He hit those two important threes. I'm just glad he just took them and didn't start dribbling. (...) We had 19 wins and 13 defeats in the EuroLeague, nobody expected that. And then we slipped from fifth to ninth place. That was tough, I didn't think we deserved it. That was disappointing. The cup was also disappointing. But I was very happy with the way we played in the EuroLeague. In the BBL, we sometimes played according to the motto ‘A good horse only jumps as high as it has to’, right up to the finals. (...) Shabazz was always an important player and he accepted coming off the bench here all year. He's done an outstanding job. He's an outstanding professional.
Ty Harrelson, Headcoach ratiopharm Ulm: Congratulations to Bayern Munich on the championship. Gordie has done a great job and now has one more championship on his CV. Of course it's disappointing when you lose the final. You can imagine how you stand there and have won. I'm proud of our character, the way we fought back and took the lead several times in the second half. We had the opportunities, but didn't close the deal. Bayern hit the big shots at the end. I'm proud of my players, our club. Not just because of today, but because of the whole season. It was a special experience for me as head coach. I'm grateful, I could have kept playing with these guys forever. I will miss them when they move on, but they will all have a lot of success.