Paderborn Game Analysis

Hello and welcome again to late night or should I say mid day with T. On tonight's show we have a great guest for you featuring TV Werne Men's Basketball.



How ya doing TV Werne long time no talk. How have you been?

Well T I have been better. We have had a tough last couple games but made it back to the good side this last Saturday against Paderborn. This last game was definitely a must win for us and for our jobs. Not only does it keep us in the championship race but it also keeps the Americans here for another week. The way I see it, if we aren't competing for a title there is no need to have so many foreign players on the team. So I guess we live to play another day. In this business nothing is really guaranteed.

Wow, it sounds like you have been really busy lately. Tell me a little more about your last game.

Well it was a shoot-out right from the start. We started fast and got out to a nice lead early in the game. We got out to a five point lead by the end of the first quarter. We went with a smaller quicker line-up for most of the game so Wittwer had to play the four thus leaving us with only one real true post of the floor. Wittwer managed to stay out of foul trouble only picking up two in the first half. With styfiling shooting and aggressive defense we were able to take a ten point lead into halftime.

Thats a good first half, what happened with the second?

Well P'born came out hot in the third quarter. They cut the lead down to single digits a few times in the 3rd quarter. At the end of the third quarter we only had a ten point lead. Finally in the fourth we really turned it on and finished them off winning 101-83. Conboy scored the final two points to push us past the century mark with a couple free throws with 1.5 seconds left.

How did the team play?

I felt we played very well. Our energy was better, we did a better job on the boards and our defense is improving. We had 5 guys score in double figures and a few guys on the team had the best games of the season. It was good to see a bunch of guys get into the double digit scoring column. Now if we can just keep improving we will have a real shot at the title. The unofficial stats for Wittwer have him with a triple double 21 points, 12 assists, 11 rebounds, 3+ blocks, and a few steals. In case you were wondering no he did not keep track of all this in his head. One guy on the team J has been hurt and keeps the other stats. Tremaine had 18 points. Tom had 14. Marko had 4. The box score will be posted at the end of the article.
Thats a nice win, so where are you sitting now in the standings?

We are currently tied for third place. Munster (the team we beat) is in the lead with one loss, followed by Hagen Haspa with 2 losses and then Luddenscheid and us with 3 losses. If all the teams win out as they are expected to the after christmas special (aka the second half of the season) could be very very interesting. 4 or 5 teams are within striking distance of the title.


So who do you have next?

We travel to Dortmund next week who will definitely prove to be a worthy opponent. That will be the final game of the first half of the season and we will have played all the teams and now have a short 2 week intermission and then the second half of the season kicks off in early January.

Well it was great having you on late night/mid day again. Until next time take care.

TV Werne BB - Paderborn II 101:83 (27:22, 28:18, 22:26, 35:17)

TVW: Aaron (18/2), Meinert (17/2), Mersch, Docenko (13/2), Manske (6), Wittwer (21), Lüttecke (8), Filipovic (4), Langos, Tübel, Conboy (14).