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.

Congrats Shawn on the game 1 win over Hamm 102-89. How good does it feel to have won your first playoff game this season?

Thank you. It feels great to have gotten that first playoff win this season out of the way but I went to the playoffs with the Berlin Braves last season and won it all there so I’m familiar with what it takes to win in this time of the season.

How tough was it coming back after 3 weeks off? How did you prepare physically for this game?

Really hard. Every day I was so anxious to play and couldn’t wait to get back on the court in my uniform. I stayed in the fitness gym like normal over the weeks but we also had a much needed break from practice that I think our bodies needed to be ready for the playoffs.

It was a real shoot out. Talk about the 40 minutes. What is your summary for 40 minutes how you played as a team?

In the first quarter I felt everything went our way offensively to hitting big three point shots to Jaro getting like 4 dunks in a row. But defensively I think we were not our best by far and Hamm was too comfortable the whole game. They scored way too many points for our liking in the first half and we picked it up and turned up our aggressive defense in the second half. All in all we stuck together and did everything we could to get the win and that’s how it’s going to be all playoffs.

Even if you allowed 89 points, how key was the defensive pressure and 17 Hamm turnovers for the overall success?

The most important. We knew it was all defense that was going to win this game and even though we started out not the best, we picked it up later and were able to make them uncomfortable.

BG Hagen had no answer for Gilbert Gyamfi who scored 41 points This guy seemed to have the 3 level scoring down. What made it most difficult to stop him?

It seemed like every shot he put up went in and this is just how it is when it comes playoff time. Guys like that step it up even more and it becomes harder to stop them. But we got stops when we needed to. Next game he can’t have a game like this and we have to be more disciplined when guarding him.

You had another solid game with 32 points. How revved up were you for this game?

I was super energetic the whole day waiting to play but it didn’t allow me to get much sleep. But I feel I didn’t play to the very best of my ability and I’m going to make sure I’m at that point next game to get the game two win.

What will be key for winning game 2 against Hamm? Will you expect another high scoring game?

I expect us to have a high scoring game but we cannot allow Hamm who scores 70 points a game on average to score 89 points against us again. The key is defense and will be the key for the next games to come.

Thanks Shawn for the chat.