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.

How did you get into 2024? How was New Years eve in Germany?

My New Year’s Eve was pretty calm it was just spent with my girl.

Congrats on the big 83-82 win against Hagen-Haspe. Would you classify this as a rivalry?

Thank you, it was definitely one for the books. I would say yes. Even if it’s just my first year here, I could feel the energy and motivation both teams and the fans had to come out on top in the derby. Both games didn’t disappoint one bit and we’re fortunate to have come out on top both games.

The game had a close finish, but how was your summary of the 40 minutes?

The game was completely close the whole game until just the 4th quarter when we found ourselves in a hole down 12 points. But one thing about us is we never ever lose hope and it shows by the amount games we’ve been able to win this season after being down with little time left.

Talk a little about the last minute and what was key for the win?

Well the last minute was when we had finally made our comeback and the game was back tight again. With 15 seconds left, Haspe got fouled on a 3, going 2-3 at the line. We’re now down one and coach draws a play that we executed well and found ourselves up one with 7 seconds left. We couldn’t have played better defense for the last possession and Haspe wasn’t able to get a shot off and that was the game. The key was we kept fighting the entire game and took it one possession at a time when we were down late. That’s been us for the whole season thus far.

The team rebounded well but didn´t shoot great from outside? What was the team´s biggest strength in the game?

I think we were very aggressive going to the basket this game but were not getting foul calls we expected by the refs but still we kept putting pressure on them from the bigs to the guards. But we hit much needed three’s when we desperately needed them so it all worked out.

You had a great first game in 2024 with 31/12 stats and 4 steals and shot 50%. I guess the 5 turnovers had you a bit upset?

Definitely was upset about that. I could tell I was a bit rusty the first game back after the break because I had many uncharacteristic turnovers and wasn’t flowing like I would like. But it happens and it’ll be fixed come next game.

You next play Munster 2 who are 6-9. You easily won the first game scoring 101 points. What will be key to getting the win?

I think playing fast and rebounding will be the key just like the last time and putting pressure on their young squad along with the veteran König. We have to keep rolling now and play like it’s a playoff game because still any team can win against anyone and that’s the scary thing about this region.

Thanks Shawn for the chat.