Shawn Scott (185-G-1996, college: SW Christian) is a 28 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.

The 12 game winning streak came to an end for BG Hagen with a tough 82-77 loss. How tough was this loss for you to digest?

For me it was really tough just because I absolutely hate losing no matter what. But after some days of thinking about it. This game didn’t really matter either way because we stay safe in second place and we now prepare for the playoffs.

Does that mentally of always continuing to grow have a strain on you mentally? How does it feel after a loss. Do you still feel unstoppable despite a loss?

Losing is a part of the game it’s going happen. We just learn from it and continue to tighten everything up for when it really matters. I believe we are still unstoppable only when we play to our maximum potential and we all know that as a team we didn’t play to our maximum potential.

Talk about the 40 minutes and it´s ups and downs. What was key in crunch-time for the loss?

Honestly I feel like we didn’t take the game as serious as we wanted to and we thought we would win regardless which horribly backfired. We started the game too loose and cool and they hung around and eventually took the lead and then it was us that had to battle back in crunch time. We had many chances to tie or win the game but it just wasn’t in the cards.

You did a good job as a team being aggressive defensively forcing them to 22 turnovers but got destroyed on the boards as they teamed up for 16 offensive rebounds. How much of a factor was the rebounding in game?

Huge factor. They got way too many offensive rebounds and we just weren’t mentally prepared to fight for the win. We should’ve had so many points off turnovers but just couldn’t capitalize.

How tough was it controlling Juhwan Harris-Dyson. He got to the free throw line 10 times. Could the team have done a better job on him?

I think we definitely could’ve done a better job but we didn’t play man to man hardly at all so Wulfen did a great job of exploiting our zone defense and Harris finding gaps to score.

You didn´t score as much as usual scoring 20 points and had 6 turnovers. Did they fullfill their scouting report on limiting your scoring? If you had averaged your season scoring the team would have won.

Not at all. That was completely on me and I missed lay ups after lay ups that I always make. Just wasn’t my game and that annoys me the most about the loss because I feel it’s on me because I’m expected to perform no matter what. This won’t happen in the playoffs I guarantee it.

This wasn´t the way the team wanted to close out the regular season. How is the team mentally going into playoffs?

Definitely and that’s what frustrates me most that we lost a game before going into playoffs. Mentally, it’s over now. Nothing was affected as far as rankings so we move on and get ready for the next challenge. When we play our game and really lock in, we are unbeatable so we aren’t affected by this loss and we shouldn’t be because we won’t see Wulfen until later. Hamm is on our radar now.

Talk about your opponent and what will be key to advancing?

Hamm is a dangerous team and a great team defensively and we have to be ready for their defensive schemes because their coach is smart and will try everything to contain us. We just have to be focused on our game and not let them try to change how we play and everything will be fine. I’m already more than ready to play and I will make sure my guys are in that playoff mode mentally.

Thanks Shawn for the chat.