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Austrian championship: Oppland follows double-double with triple-double, Swans even series
With just a few games left in Austria’s championship series, the ever reliable and enthusiastic David Hein contributes another report on progress in the Österreich finals. The focus: (Literally) red-hot Dan Oppland, who notched his second straight game of 22/20 for Allianz Swans Gmunden – and added a crazy 10 steals. Dan Oppland registered a […]
Austrian League semifinals: Gmuden Swans come back at home, Bulls Kapfenberg snatch home court
Four teams remain in the Austrian basketball playoffs and BallinEurope contributing writer David Hein is paying close attention, giving us another roundup of recent action there. Top-seeded Allianz Swans Gmunden roared back from a double-digit third quarter deficit to beat WBC Raiffeisen Wels in overtime in Game One to defend home court in the Austrian […]
Chalk talk in Austria: Top four seeds advance to playoff semis
With one eye on German basketball and another on European hoops in general, BallinEurope supposes David Hein is keeping his third eye viewing the happening in Austria’s Admiral Basketball Bundesliga. Today, the heinnews.com guy updates us on the playoffs over there which, despite some shocks in the tournament’s early going, has settled down a bit… […]
Oberwart Gunners capped: Austria to have fifth new champion in five years
With the Beko BBL in the homestretch of the regular season and the Austrian playoffs underway, BallinEurope’s man in Germany, David Hein, finds himself overdosing on basketball these days. Hein rounds up the latest events in the ÖBL tournament below, including the bouncing of yet another defending champion from contention… There will be another new […]
Game of the month, season, century: Bulls Kapfenberg top Raiffeisen Wels in four OTs
From the In Case You Missed It Department, David Hein reports to BallinEurope on recent events in the Austrian Bundesliga and most importantly on a ridiculous quadruple-overtime game that went down in late February amidst an incredibly tight race for the playoffs there. Publicly accessible highlights of this “Thriller für die Ewigkeit”, ECE Bulls Kapfenberg’s […]