The German basketball players made the European Championship qualification perfectly with a home win and, after a few starting difficulties, still achieved the group victory.
In the final qualification game, the team of national coach àlex Mumbrú in Bamberg won after a shaky final phase 94:85 (62:35) against Bulgaria. For the successor to Gordon Herbert at the Eurobasket in Latvia, Finland, Poland and Cyprus (August 27th to September 14th), the next medal after EM bronze 2022 and World Cup gold 2023 is the goal.
“In the second half we no longer had the rhythm from the first”, Mumbrú said after the game in magenta. With a view to the highlight of the year EM there is still in the squad “Open places”.
Already before the game as well as through
Even before the final game, the selection of the German Basketball Federation (DBB) was practically through the clear success last Thursday against host Montenegro in Podgorica (95:76) – even a defeat with up to 68 points would have been enough.
The fourth in the sixth qualification game in the sold -out Bamberg arena was the victory over the Bulgarians in front of 5,600 spectators, Mumbrú had taken responsibility from his predecessor from the third encounter.
“There is a learning curve, even if it stopped in the 3. quarter. We are on the right track and understand the system better. Analyzes Johannes Thiemann.
DBB team with Daniel Theis
Six days after moving to AS Monaco, long-time NBA professional Daniel Theis made his debut in the current EM qualification, in Podgorica the “Big Man” was still missing. Theis came to twelve points in his former home Bamberg, the top scorer of the German team was Andreas Obst (14).
Pawlin Ivanow scored 17 points for the Bulgarians, who had to compete without their top player Sascha Vezenkov (Olympiacos Piraeus) and Cody Miller-Mcintyre (Red Stern Belgrade). Vezenkov and Miller-Mcintyre had not received any approval from their clubs.
The group draw for the 42nd Casketball European Championship will take place on March 27th in the Latvian capital Riga.