

March Madness starts now: On Monday morning, the Bayern basketball players began their crazy month of 13 games with their departure to Serbia. This week already has a double week in the EuroLeague, consisting of a road game on Tuesday evening with Red Star Belgrade and a home game on Thursday against Panathinaikos Athens and finally Sunday at Rasta Vechta. Head coach Andrea Trinchieri has only one wish in view of this schedule, and that is "that my players stay healthy".
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Captain Nihad Djedovic is still out for a while due to injury and so is center Leon Radosevic, who was knocked out against Wurzburg (97-76). On Monday - the big anniversary day for the 75th anniversary of the basketball department in FC Bayern - the healthy players took their trip to Belgrade.
As always, the focus is on the next opponent, and as former coach of local rivals Partizan, Trinchieri knows about the quality and notorious fighting spirit of hosts Red Star. True, they have strung together a series of defeats (17th place, 7-19) but it is still very difficult to play in the huge "Stark Arena", even without Serbian basketball enthusiasts present. This was experienced by top playoff candidate St. Petersburg in their last home game as the Russians saved themselves at in the last seconds 76-75.
Anything is possible for this Serbian Juggernaut as can be seen in their 73-60 win against Adria League third-place Mega Leks and as documented by the unexpected victories in Milan (87-79), against Valencia (76-73) and at Real Madrid (79-77).
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"Despite all the adversity from Corona, this EuroLeague season is simply fantastic because every game is so hard-fought, incredibly difficult and also super important," says Trinchieri.