Before the start of the new basketball season, the EuroLeague and the World Basketball Association FIBA continue to cause trouble:”I think it’s a shame and terrible that this problem is being played on the backs of clubs and players,”said CEO Rolf Beyer von Brose Bamberg at the BBL media tip-off in Berlin on Tuesday.
FIBA wants to attract more attention to the national teams and has introduced new country play windows.There will be meetings not only in summer, but also in autumn and spring.But the EuroLeague, the premier class in European basketball, ignores these windows and continues to play normally during this time.
I can’t give up half of my team,”said Beyer, who is the only German EuroLeague starter with a club that is particularly affected:” A solution must be found.I hope we’re not heading for the November deadline without a solution.”
The 24th.On November 27, the DBB team of the new national coach Henrik Rödl will play in Chemnitz at the start of the qualifying round for the 2019 World Cup against opponents Georgia, on 27-29 November.November then in Austria.According to the current state of play, not only Dennis Schröder (Atlanta Hawks) and Daniel Theis (Boston Celtics) are missing from the EC squad.Johannes Voigtmann (Saski Baskonia/Spain) and the three Bamberg Maodo Lo, Patrick Heckmann and Lucca Staiger as EuroLeague participants would also have to watch.
We have potential for seven international players and will be prepared to make a compromise,”said the Bamberg boss:” I don’t know whether it’s two or three.It depends on the constellations of the games.”
The representatives of the Bundesliga agree that the best players should continue to play in the national matches.The World Cup qualification, the first stage in the fight for a place at the Olympic Games 2020 in Tokyo, is threatening to become a competition of B-teams “Then this seal of approval will be trampled underfoot”, said Alba Berlin’s managing director Marco Baldi:”This has to be avoided under all circumstances.
The BBL starts on Friday in one week.Among other things, Bamberg has to start at s. oliver Würzburg.