The Niners Chemnitz basketball team has suffered its fourth successive defeat in the German league. The shorthanded team of Head Coach Rodrigo Pastore was defeated 72:89 (47:39) at EWE Baskets Oldenburg on Saturday evening. With 17 points, Yordan Minchev was the Niners' best scorer in front of 6,200 spectators and they now trail by 14:20.
The club from Chemnitz, who also had to do without center Amadou Sow at short notice, got off to a sluggish start and quickly trailed by 7:17 in the 6th minute. Pastore reacted with a timeout, which did not fail to have the desired effect. The visitors moved the ball much better from then on and also improved enormously in defense. They forced Oldenburg to take poorly prepared shots and pulled 42:30 ahead in the 18th minute.
The club from Chemnitz defended its lead in the third quarter and increased it to 66:59 at the start of the final period before collapsing completely. They went seven minutes without a bucket from the floor and conceded some hair-raising turnovers. As a result, the home side produced a furious 25:1 run to pull 84:67 ahead in the 37th minute.
