Shawn Scott (185-G-1996, college: SW Christian) is a 27 year old 185cm guard playing his third professional season and first with BG Hagen. Last season he split time with TVO Biggesee / TV Jahn Lindhorst (Germany-Regionalliga) averaging 31.2ppg, 10.4rpg, 6.1apg, 3.6spg, 2FGP: 56.2%, 3FGP: 30.4%, FT: 77.6%, in Jan.’23 moved to BG 2000 Berlin (Germany-Regionalliga) averaging 14.2ppg, 8.1rpg, 4.6apg, 2.4spg, FGP: 53.5%, 3PT: 14.3%, FT: 64.4%. he began his career at Jenks High School and then played 3 seasons at Southwestern Christian University. He teams up with germanhoops.com every week to talk basketball.

Congrats on the big 99-98 win over Grevenbroich. The wins just keep pouring in. Does the team feel unstoppable at the moment?

Thank you a lot. We are definitely happy at how the season is beginning but we know that in our region anyone can beat anyone. We have to continue to tighten things up but we want to keep the winning streak going for sure.

You beat a strong team. How important was this win? Was it an early stepping stone in the season?

Grevenbroich was a really tough team for newcomers back into 1st regio and hats off to them for making it a competitive, high energy game. We didn’t really treat this game as a “must win”, but we wanted to just continue on the path that we’re going towards and do what we have to do to win. The season is still early but I think we’re making a big statement with being undefeated thus far.

Talk a little about the 40 minutes. Was it a back and forth struggle or were there phases where either team was able to have a big lead?

It was definitely a back and forth struggle the whole 40 minutes and the game was close until the very end. Our defense took a huge blow the whole game. We were not locked in on that side of the ball at all and shouldn’t have let them score that many points but we all have those games and we’re very fortunate to have come out on top.

Where was this game won? The team rebounded very well and only had 9 turnovers, but shot very poorly from downtown.

I think this game was won strictly off will power to not want to lose this game at home. Like I said we were really bad on defense but when it came winning time, everyone did their part to get the job done. We’re going to have those days where we are shooting poor from 3pt but we found other ways to score and in the end it came down to defense.

Talk a little about the last seconds. BG Hagen won at the end with 1 point. Take me through the last few plays that secured the win?

I believe it was around 17 seconds left in the game, and we were down 96-98. I got fouled and had two free throws and I made the first and missed the second. Huge shout out to our veteran Vytautas Nedzinskas who was also sick for this game, got the offensive rebound from the miss and scored with around 15 seconds left. The American from the other team then dribbled it down and we pretty much played one on one against each other and they didn’t get a shot off and ended in a steal and that was the game.

Does the team self-confidence climb with every win? At 6-0 it seems like the club currently is on a mission?

Most definitely. We truly believe that when we play the basketball that we practice every day, then we are a very hard team to beat. We are for sure on a mission and again, the season is early but we’re only going to continue to improve and fix things each game at a time.

You had a monster game with 47 points. How quickly did you know that it would be a great night for you personally?

Well my first points came from a three pointer, I think then I knew it was going to be a pretty good game for me but I never was trying to score this much. I just wanted to win.

Does a game like this give you more aspirations to hitting 50 points soon?

Not at all. I go in the game telling myself to do the things I always do and everything will fall in place. It just so happens that in the end I had a lot of points, but I just wanted to do whatever it took to win and that didn’t mean only scoring.

The 47 points really stand out, but what many may not realize you got a triple double. You were on quadruple course with 6 steals. Was this your best game in your career?

It’s definitely one of them for sure. This is my new career high and I’m thankful for that along with the win. For me, it means nothing if we don’t win the game.

You also took 5 three´s. Is the 3 level scoring something that continues to grow?

Definitely. Teams know my strengths and Grevenbroich’s game plan was to try to keep me out of the lane and let me shoot and I was confident and prepared for it.

The next opponent is Hamm at 2-3. What will be the main focus in this one? J

Just to continue to work all week on the defensive side and not allow teams to score so easy on us like Grevenbroich did. We’re going to use the game in Hamm and get back on track defensively and hopefully keep our streak going.

BG Hagen plays many games on Fridays. Do you like that approach. Do you take the whole weekend off or do you get into the gym to work on your craft?

I honestly love this approach. Playing on Fridays is so much better and the games arrive faster in the week which I like. Any time we play on Friday we always have a light shoot around Saturday morning so Sunday is the only true off day for us.

Thanks Shawn for the chat.