DBB opens up the World Cup

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Germany's basketball player and the new national coach Gordon Herbert have become athletic and laid a huge false start to the prelude of the World Cup qualification.

One of numerous failures weakened hull team lost in Nuremberg with 66:69 (34:30) against outsider Estonia and is already severe under pressure after the first of six group games.

Best German Werner in front of 1000 spectators were Christian Engender (21) and Captain Robin Bending (13), but against the particularly strong Stones from the triple line, it was not enough. Caspar Train and Kristian Pullman (15) were most successful for the guests. Herbert starts with a massive mortgage in his term. To stay after the false start in the race to stay the 32 World Cup tickets, a victory for Bending and Co. on Sunday evening (20:00 o'clock / magenta Herbert) in Poland is almost duty.

Numerous top players not there

Herbert, who is said to answer the major projects home EM 2022 and World Cup 2023 in the German basketball in Japan, Philippines and Indonesia, had only a few top players available. All seven NBA professionals are not included, the players of Master Alba Berlin and Cup winner Bayern Munich played the same evening in the Euro league. Of course it is not easy, said Vice President Armin Andres. But excuses are not available. The World Cup is a very important event, a must, so to speak. The announcement illustrates how difficult a home defeat against the supposedly the weakest group opponent weighs.

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Even the start was not according to plan. In the shortest possible time, the German team came in arrears with 0: 6. The team JUSTUS HOLLAND guided by the young startup player made a lot of light ball losses, several step errors were symbolic for the messaging initial phase. Important was Routine Bending, which contributed eight fast points. After a threesome in the first quarter, the 32-year-old demonstratively stretched out the tongue, he ripped the young team again and again.

Failing final quarter

You realize, you want, and the fighting spirit is there. You want to move something, but it does not have the interaction yet. That's why it's a bit bumpy, Andres stated in magenta. It was a national team that had to be completely new without the absence of almost all the service providers. In the newly built Feinberger Arena, this succeeded for the first time just before the half, when Holland contributed four fast points. Germany sat down a bit.

After changing it was not a bit easier. Although Karim Allow set the first exclamation point with an unintentional dunk, but Estonia just did not want to decrease. The opponent who had been lost to Germany with 43:86 in 2018 met threes through threes, and at the third quarter, temporarily released in the third quarter. National coach Herbert seamlessly worked on the side line. In the final quarter, a gripping duel developed with several guidelines. In the end, the ester remained cool and sat down at the last minute.