It was important to Alex Mumbru to tell that he still had to fill vacancies in his workforce. Therefore, he repeated this message several times and immediately announced a trip to overseas in order to conduct staff talks. At that time, the national basketball coach was still under the impression of the second half of the European Championship qualification game against Bulgaria, which in the meantime was still really close after a huge lead in the final phase. Ultimately, however, the German Basketball BUND (DBB) was able to announce, which should only have been one marginal note: The world champion has secured the approval for the European Championship in Latvia, Finland, Cyprus and Poland (August 27 to September 14), as group first before Montenegro and Sweden; The last opponent of Bulgaria is out.
It is unsightly tradition that the nations with Euroleague clubs or national players in the NBA mostly have to make these qualifications with actors in the second and third guard. This is how teams are formed that you will never see at big tournaments. Because the privately organized Euroleague and especially the Übersee glitter league NBA do not remember to consider any qualification window of the international associations. This weekend, however, the European elite league had its game rest rested, which is why most national teams received a significant upgrading.
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Mumbru was able to fall back on the major of his Euroleague players and was lucky that the change from Center Daniel Theis from the New Orleans Pelicans to the Euroleague club Monaco fell exactly during this period. Theis was alongside Johannes Thiemann, who was flown in from Japan, Johannes Voigtmann, Justus Hollatz and Andreas Obst (all FC Bayern) as well as David Krämer (from the Spanish first division team Canarias) and Isaac Bonga (Partizan Belgrade) the seventh world champion in the field. The first qualification game in Montenegro, which won the DBB selection 95:76, was accordingly one-sided. Which was synonymous with the successful qualification, because only a defeat with more than 70 points difference on Sunday evening could have put it in danger.
However, because the Bulgarians had to do without their best players-Sasha Vezenkov got no release from Piraeus and Codi Miller-Mcintyre was ordered home by Red Stern Belgrade-this opportunity moved into the area of theory. Vezenkov, who is currently considered the best player in Europe, was still the winning guarantee in the 81: 77 win of the Bulgarians against Sweden on Thursday with 40 points and 18 rebounds, in Miller-Mcintyre the Bulgarians also had to do without their playmaker. Nevertheless, on Sunday evening in Bamberg, the hosts only lived up to his favorite status until the halftime score of 62:35 points, after which the game of the world champion took increasing traits.
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Of course, coaches Mumbru cheerfully reduced the line -up in the entire course of the game, but as an explanation for the two lost quarters (13:22 and 19:28), that’s not enough. Because neither Bulgaria nor Montenegro or Sweden are competitors that range from the performance area of the German team. The appearance in the second half was simply poor and did not live up to a world champion – three minutes before the end, the guests had put the Germans on the pelle to the Germans (82:87). Mumbru attested to his players, who looked a bit nervous in the final phase, on the microphone of magenta awards, “many good moments”, but this would also have acted “too much and no longer intensely enough”. The best shooter was David Krämer with 14 points, Andreas Obst and Daniel Theis (12 each) also scored in double digits.
There is no reason to start the alarm sirens, because the majority of the players and the national coaches have so far only known each other. And in this constellation, the team is hardly to be expected from the European Championship. Nevertheless, the two final areas in Bamberg obviously scored the national coach in such a way that he wants to study the flight plans after overseas. There, his best players are involved, with whom he is always in contact, as he emphasized: “I called Dennis and Franz on the phone,” he said before the game. In addition to the leaders He also has Dennis Schröder and Franz Wagner Isaiiah Hartenstein, who is currently shining at the Oklahoma City Thunder, as well as Wagner’s Orlando teammate Tristan da Silva on the paper. The European Championship is likely to come too early for the currently injured Moritz Wagner.
In addition, two other top-class players were missing in Nick Weiler-Babb and Oscar da Silva, and world champion Maodo Lo, who stayed with his Euroleague club Paris, also signaled willingness to the European Championship. Never before had a German national coach had such a big pool of top players. The art for Mumbru will be to create a coherent team from it, as predecessor Gordon Herbert had done. In any case, the signs are not bad, as Daniel Theis explained: “Every coach does it differently, but the core of the team is.”
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