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The DBB team with Justus Hollatz had no chance on August 20, 2022 without captain Dennis Schröder (left).
A crushing defeat in the final of the Supercup and major injury worries: the German national basketball team still has a lot of work to do before the European Championships.
The beating of European champions Serbia 56:83 (31:38) in the final of the Supercup in Hamburg was not the biggest concern for national basketball coach Gordon Herbert. The Canadian is currently experiencing how one support after the other is falling away with a view to the home European Championship starting on September 1, 2022.
The team is more worried than ever about the participation of NBA professional Daniel Theis, who will definitely miss the dress rehearsal in the World Cup qualifier against Slovenia in Munich with a knee injury. “We’ll decide next week what the EM looks like,” believes Herbert.
Dennis Schröder cannot take part in the final injured
But since Friday he has had one more concern: Dennis Schröder twisted his ankle shortly before the end of the semi-final against the Czech Republic and was only in civilian clothes and as a cheer in the final against the European Championship favorites in the hall.
Schröder had already said that he “definitely won’t miss the tournament”, but how fit the captain and NBA star, who wanted to be the focus of NBA clubs again at the European Championship, is in the stars. “We’ve already lost Moritz Wagner and Isaac Bonga, so it would be very important if Daniel got fit. I hope so for Dennis as well,” says Herbert.
European champion coach Pesic teaches Germany a lesson
The lesson in the O2 Arena from the former German European champion coach and former Cologne coach Svetislav Pesic (72) and his team turned out to be violent. “You kept giving us problems – we didn’t solve them. That was the first real endurance test, which we didn’t pass,” says center Johannes Voigtmann soberly.
Voigtmann continued: “We have to do our homework.” However, the World Cup qualifiers in Sweden (August 25) and against Slovenia (August 28 in Munich) are still to come. Voigtmann: “It’s really about something. We have to see how we manage the load.”
The final European Championship team should be in place by then – there is still a lot of work to do for coach Gordon Herbert.
