Shortly before the start of the season, FC Bayern’s basketball players are still looking for reinforcements.
The German champions’ responsible want to react to the current failures; They plan with a squad of 16 professionals. “At the moment we have eleven healthy players, three injured, and we still look for one or two players who we want to get,” said club president Herbert Hainer. “We are firmly convinced that we need at least as many to get through the season to some extent.”
Before the longest season of their history, the Munich people may have more than 90 games. In the Bundesliga, which begins for the defending champion on Friday (8:00 p.m.) against Science City Jena, there are 34 main round games and up to 15 playoff matches. In the Euroleague, 38 preliminary round games are planned before the KO phase only follows. Then there is the DBB Cup.
Coach Herbert: Almost no training with EM players
It will therefore be important for the German basketball primus to divide the forces well in this season. However, coach Gordon Herbert knows that this will be difficult right from the start because of the failures. In addition, because of the European Championship, he had to do without many players in preparation. “It was by far the heaviest pre-season I had ever experienced,” he said.
World and European champion Andreas Obst only rose to training on Monday, his EM gold colleagues Justus Hollatz and Oscar da Silva only come to the team on Wednesday.
Despite the circumstances, the Munich team does not move away from their seasonal goals. Bayern want the third championship title in series and also the double with the win of the trophy. In the cup, they had surprisingly failed in the semi -finals on the outsider Syntainics MBC from Weißenfels in the semi -finals. “What happened in Weißenfels shouldn’t happen again,” said Hainer.
Bavaria want in playoffs of Euroleague
“Of course it won’t be easier in the Euroleague, there are two more teams, everyone upgrades,” said Bavaria’s boss, who are the only Bundesliga club in the European elite competition after the withdrawal of Alba Berlin. “But of course our goal is also to get into the playoffs.” Bayern just missed this last spring. “We still have the goal of establishing ourselves in the European top for years.”