World champion qualifies for the European Championship finals

David Krämer (14 points) was the best thrower of the strongly positioned team in the success in Bamberg. The center Daniel Theis, who only joined the team on Friday, brought it to twelve points in front of 5,600 spectators, including sprinter Gina Lückenkemper. Theis enriched the team primarily on the defensive and under the baskets. When he was substituted for the first time, Germany was 10:15 behind – then the game tipped completely.

In addition to Krämer and Theis, five other world champions were present in Johannes Voigtmann, Johannes Thiemann, Isaac Bonga and Justus Hollatz and Andreas Obst. Nobody in this window benefited as much from the Euroleague break as Germany. When those professionals were missing, the German team still suffered bitter defeats in Sweden and Bulgaria.

These opponents should actually not be a yardstick for an EM bronze winner, world champion and fourth Olympic. On Sunday it became tight again in the final phase after the German team led with almost 30 points.

The final round takes place in four countries

From August 27 to September 14th, the Spaniard Mumbru will accompany his first big tournament as head coach. The European Championship takes place in Riga (Latvia), Tampere (Finland), Katowitz (Poland) and Limassol (Cyprus). In which country the national team contests its preliminary round group will only result in the draw on March 27. The final round, which for the world champion cannot even be the minimum goal, rises in Riga.

In the last of the three qualification windows, Germany showed its strength-even without the NBA stars who were not there in North America because of the current season. In particular, three -way specialist fruit, playmaker Hollatz and worker Thiemann performed strong performance in the two clear victories. Gordon-Herbert successor Mumbru should have a hard time reducing its contingent to twelve professionals in summer.

Because world champion captain Dennis Schröder and NBA-Jungstar Franz Wagner are set just as much as some other world champions around Bavaria’s fruit. The quality in German basketball is enormous. The superstars from the NBA are likely to be there in Slovenia Luka Doncic, Serbia’s Nikola Jokic and Greece’s Giannis Antetocounmpo. But hardly a team has to offer the team unity of the Germans.

“In terms of quality, one of the strongest teams we have ever had on the pitch,” said Vice President Armin Andres in Bamberg. A third international medal after 2022 and 2023 seems tangible with this generation.