Nice gift at the Towers. Hamburg’s basketball players have only won one game in their last eleven (!) Bundesliga and EuroCup games.
“That’s not acceptable,” says point guard Kendale McCullum (26). “We have to do better.”
The next chance is Tuesday (December 27th) in the sold-out Inselpark (3400 fans) against Oldenburg (7 p.m., Magenta Sport). Christmas will therefore be extremely short at the towers this year!
Only Christmas Eve is free of training. For the morning of the 25th, Captain Seth Hinrichs (29) has invited his US colleagues Yoeli Childs (24), James Woodard (28) and McCullum along with their families and dog. But already in the afternoon the next unit rises.
Korner is still hoping for a Christmas effect: “It gives us a bit of a break. Sometimes that’s not so bad when I’m constantly under pressure and trying to win with all means possible.” That’s why the Viennese played football easily in training on Friday. Previously, the pros gave each other presents at Secret Santa.
On the other hand, no gifts are to be expected from Oldenburg. Ex-Towers coach Pedro Calles (39) and biter MaxDiLeo (29) stand for aggressive defensive basketball. “We have to play very unconventionally,” Lukas Meisner (27) knows from last year under Calles. “If you don’t physically keep up, they roll over you.”
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Ziga Samar (21/flu infection) is questionable, center Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann (32) is suspended. Korner: “That’s the position where I would have seen us at an advantage. It’s gone now…”
He decided not to go home for a short trip at Christmas and stayed in Hamburg. His wishes: “That we A stay healthy and B emerge stronger from this crisis.”
