After beating Zwickau 71:55 Wetzlar moves into Playoffs as number one
After being down by 11 points at the beginning of the second half, RSV Lahn-Dill came back with an extraordinary third quarter and won against archrival RSC Rollis Zwickau with 71:55 (11:11/19:28/51:44).
It was the second quarter that left the sold-out crowd of 1500 fans and their home-team almost dumb into half-time break when Zwickau gained a 28:19 lead after 20 minutes. After a start on an equal level and a first quarter that showed two strong defending teams, RSC Rollis Zwickau were able to move away after six points by Krysztof Bandura to a 26:17(17.) lead. On the other side of the court the ball didn´t want to fall into the basket anymore and so not only Headcoach Nicolai Zeltinger went a little bit downfaced into half-time break.
When Zwickau scored twice after the break to a 23:34(23.) by Marcin Balcerowski and Center Bandura the atmosphere at the August-Bebel-Arena almost froze to death – but suddenly the spark from the fans jumped over and the team seemed to explode.
It was the pressure RSV Lahn-Dill was able to keep up now thet didn´t seem to be handled by Zwickau anymore. Coming back point by point and an almost immaculate shooting from the free-throw line by Wetzlar´s team made the RSC Rollis Zwickau become more and more insecure; and so RSV Lahn-Dill moved over a 33:38(25.) to their first lead by 42:40(27.).
Now the August-Bebel-Arena cracked up totally. The firework on the court kept going and carried by the extraordinary audience on the stands the US-plyers Paye and Serio pushed their team up by leading a 23:6-run that brought home a 49:42(30.) after the third quarter. After Zwickau´s best player today Piotr Luszynski was fouled out at 61:48(35.) their last resistance was broken.
Everybody at the Gym was celebrating the 71:55 win after the game but it was Headcoach Nicolai Zeltinger who found realism again first:„It was a dramatic game and great for the fans, but we didn´t win anything yet. The deciding games against Zwickau are still to come."
Lahn-Dill: Michael Paye (21), Steve Serio (21), Joey Johnson (20), Dirk Köhler (5), Thomas Böhme (2), Gesche Schünemann (2), Kai Gerlach, Thomas Gundert, Mina Mojtahedi, Felix Schell (n.e.).
Zwickau: Piotr Luszynski (13), Raimunds Beginskis (12), Krzysztof Bandura (9), Rostislav Pohlmann (7), Marcin Balcerowski (6), Günther Mayer (4), Bryce Doody (2), Matthias Heimbach (2), Kai Möller, Frank Oehme, Diana Dadzite (n.e.).
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