GER – Bamberg keep on winning

BAMBERG (BBL) - The magical run of Brose Baskets Bamberg is showing no signs of dying with the German club claiming another narrow victory over the weekend in the Beko BBL.

Fresh off a 73-61 triumph over Olympiacos in the Euroleague, Bamberg hosted Giessen 46ers and edged them 81-80 to improve to 7-0 in Germany.

Bamberg led 73-55 but the 46ers clawed their way back and trailed 79-77 after a basket by Anthony Smith with 14 seconds to go.

Bamberg's Brian Roberts made two free-throws with five seconds to go before Chase Griffin's three-ball closed the gap to one.

The hosts held on for a narrow win.

Casey Jacobsen and Predrag Suput each poured in 14 points, Karsten Tadda 12 and Kyle Hines 11 for Bamberg, who won their previous two Beko BBL games 74-71 over New Yorker Phantoms and 60-58 over Artland.

Also over the weekend, Alba Berlin managed to force overtime and scraped a 77-75 triumph over EWE Baskets Oldenburg.

In a major blunder, Oldenburg fouled Marko Marinovic when the Serbian was attempting a potential game-tying three-pointer with two seconds to go at the end of regulation.

Marinovic made all three shots from the stripe to knot the contest and send it to the extra period.

A Derrick Allen basket put the home side in front to stay with 3:35 to go in overtime.

Allen finished with 18 points and Marinovic 17.

Other results: Eisbaren Bremerhaven 83 New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig 79, TBB Trier 65 Telekom Baskets Bonn 48, Mitteldeutscher BC 79 BBC Bayreuth 70, Artland Dragons 56 Deutsche Bank Skyliners 82, Walter Tigers Tubingen 83 ratiopharm Ulm 100, Phoenix Hagen 95 EnBW Ludwigsburg 82.

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