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.

BG Hagen suffered a tough 77-67 loss to the Lowen. It was the team´s second loss in a row. How tough was it digesting this loss?

It was really tough for me because I absolutely hate losing no matter what the situation is. Both games, no matter who we’re missing or how bad we play, I believe we should still be able to win the game.

It wasn´t a high scoring game like in many previous games. Talk a little about the 40 minutes. Did BG Hagen have a chance to win this game?

Well, we on average score 95 points a game and Herten did a great job scouting us and they played 2-3 zone for 40 minutes because they know we struggle with it and on top of playing bad defense we were not able to get our offense flowing and the game was too hard for us the whole 40 minutes. But again, I believe we still had a chance to win if we were able to play defense and get stops.

Where was the game lost? The Lowen did shoot the ball very well from the 2 point range?

I think the game was strictly lost off of effort. We did not take pride in defense and were not able to guard anybody. We will not win any more games if we continue to play defense like this.

BG Hagen scored it´s fewest points this season. What was wrong with the offense against the Lowen?

Like I said, they played 23 zone the whole game and we were not able to capitalize on our transition offense, which makes us super strong. when we don’t have transition we don’t score the maximum points that we can and we were not able to rebound the ball and play fast like we want to.

The Lowen got 16 points from bench player Adam Raczkiewicz. Did you have him on the scouting report?

We definitely did and we knew that he could shoot the three and when he came in the game he hit five threes in a row. We were not mentally ready to play in this game, and we did not pay attention to scouting because we knew exactly who to watch out for.

What positives could BG Hagen take out of the game?

The rebounding continues to be ok. I think in the second half towards the end of the game, we finally saw that if we played hard and played good defense that we could’ve had a chance to win. It all continues to be about effort.

You had another good scoring game with 11 rebounds and 6 assists, but 6 turnovers. That turnover stat has to really worm you? That’s 11 in the last 2 games and you average 4 per game. How can you correct it`?

I have to be more aware of when I should speed up the game and when I should slow down because I think that’s when I start to have many turnovers. I think it’s an easy fix for me. I just have to focus and control the ball more. We play such fast basketball that the coaches understand and say that it’s OK and it will happen that we have many turnovers but still, I don’t need to have many alone.

You next play 1-6 Bonn 2 a must win. How confident are you with a win and less turnovers by you?

I’m very confident that I will have less turnovers than before, and I believe that it is a must win for us. We really need to get back on track and go back to playing the basketball that we know makes us hard to beat. But we will never underestimate our opponent because we know that anyone can beat anyone in our league.

Thanks Shawn for the chat.