Bundesliga 97
Niklas Geske hits the game winner of the weekend
It was all square with time running out between BBC Bayreuth and Phoenix Hagen in the Bundesliga but Niklas Geske let fly with a three quarter court effort to give Hagen the win win 76-73.
Clyburn and Brembly go NFL at the Beko BBL All Star game
Bundesliga Dunk Contest champion Will Clyburn (ratiopharm Ulm) and David Brembly of Bayreuth put on an exhibition at the Beko BBL All Star game which included an interesting routine borrowing from American Football.
Gottingen guns its way to upset of Bayern 81-95
FC Bayern suffered a first defeat of the 2014/15 Bundesliga season as Gottingen came away from Munich with the big upset. After hanging with Barcelona for 40 minutes in Euroleague on Friday, Bayern suffered a second defeat in three days as Gottingen knocked off the Bundesliga champions in convincing fashion on Sunday. After a tight […]
New Yorker Phantoms win at highlight videos
Total credit here goes to Christophe Ney of European Prospects for finding this. New Yorker Phantoms of Germany’s Bundesliga has put tremendous work into delivering arguably the best game highlights in Europe. The videos are produced by @yourmoodmood in Braunschweig and they deserve plenty of props for the work they are doing.
Bundesliga: Bayern stay perfect, Mike's Stock is falling
FC Bayern moved to 4-0 as their impressive start to Bundesliga continued while Artland Dragons claimed the scalp of Brose Baskets Bamberg. This is what you call ideal preparation for your debut season in Euroleague. FC Bayern already had a win over fellow Euroleague side Bamberg to their name in the Bundesliga this season and […]
Bundesliga: Bayern stay perfect, Mike’s Stock is falling
FC Bayern moved to 4-0 as their impressive start to Bundesliga continued while Artland Dragons claimed the scalp of Brose Baskets Bamberg. This is what you call ideal preparation for your debut season in Euroleague. FC Bayern already had a win over fellow Euroleague side Bamberg to their name in the Bundesliga this season and […]
*Can* white men jump? Ratiopharm Ulm takes respite from Bundesliga race to test age-old axiom
BallinEurope’s not exactly sure whose inspiration the below-embedded clip starring three Ratiopharm Ulm studs was or why Per Günther agreed to serve as guinea pig to test the classic punchline/sound bite of basketball subculture, namely “white men can’t jump.” (Or if you prefer, “Weiße Jungs bringens nicht” for appropriate local flavor. Completely irrelevant side note: […]
Podcast: Interview with Larry Gordon of Bundesliga Cinderella story Phoenix Hagen (plus Euroleague patter and review of Rollerball)
Episode #28 of the heinnews/BallinEurope co-produced podcast series is now available online. This week, we’re proud to have as a guest Larry Gordon, currently starring for upstarts Phoenix Hagen of the German Basketball Bundesliga. A product of NCAA Division II college Cal Poly Pomona, Gordon not only brings his electrifying spark plug of a game […]
Omar Samhan shows his stuff on German TV (wow, cool tattoos, man…)
Does the brilliant Awful Announcing have a German-language version? If so, they’ll definitely want to give some props to Sascha Bandermann of Germany’s Sport 1. While awkwardly giving a report direct from the locker room of the Bundesliga’s Ratiopharm Ulm for the TV magazine “Basketball – Der Countdown,” Bandermann somehow had to maintain composure through […]
Podcast: Interviews with Per Gunther, Sportando’s Emiliano Carchia; plus riffs on Rodman in North Korea, the Harlem Shake, Space Jam (P.S. Win a free T-shirt!)
Episode 25 in the Taking the Charge podcast series is now available online, and in general this one reflects the wackiness of the week in basketball just gone by. So Bill Simmons’ “B.S. Report” over at Grantland is described as “a free-flowing conversation”? Co-host David Hein of heinnews and yours truly sail our own stream […]
All eyes on Bobby Brown going into Montepaschi Siena-BC Khimki match
“In the future, everyone will be famous for one news-cycle” — that’s how BallinEurope would update Andy Warhol’s well-worn line for the 21st century. Until the story’s been beaten to death (and the public consciousness’ short-term fascination ends) on Friday, everyone gets a turn in the media spotlight: Honey Boo Boo, McKayla Maroney’s face, UFO […]
“What has happened here?” The best Euro-centric buzzer-beaters of 2011-12
In clearing out the virtual desk of 2011-12 basketball season stuff, BallinEurope today presents this compilation of the year’s top Euro-centric buzzer-beaters. The requirements to make the list were two: the primary player in the buzzer-beater most be of European nationality or the shot must take place in a game featuring European teams; and the […]