How far the Germans come up with Dirk Nowitzki at the European Basketball Championship?
Superstar Dirk Nowitzki looks a clear limit on its operating time in the forthcoming European Basketball Championship. So far, the 37-year-old was in his two appearances in the preparation against Croatia around 25 minutes on the floor. “We will increase it slightly”, the Würzburg said during training before starting on Friday Supercup in Hamburg.
“But I will not play more than 30 minutes anyway. We have five games in six days because of Robin Benzing has to play in my position, the Alex King is still in the process of, is very very athletic. “In his latest 2011 European Championships in Lithuania Nowitzki was on average 29.9 minutes active been.
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At the Supercup in the Hanseatic city, the team of national coach Chris Fleming will now face 15 days before the start of the European Championship on Latvia, after standing at duels with Poland and European Championship preliminary round opponents Turkey. “Of course we want to use the last two weeks, to get better and us to fine-tune front and rear,” said Nowitzki.
In his comeback in the national team after four years it had initially given last Friday a narrow defeat in Croatia, two days later went the rematch in Bremen clearly lost.
Nowitzki is meanwhile fully behind Hamburg’s application for the Olympic Games 2024. “Hamburg is a beautiful city, a city of sport, so I would find it great,” the 37-year-old said in a pub before the Supercup about possible Summer Games in Hamburg , It is “great that Germany ever again has an application that has a chance. I’ve heard that they have a good concept, although I do not know much of it. I have heard that everything has hand and foot. “
In addition to the Hanseatic city also Paris, Rome and Budapest want to align the Games in 2024, also still standing applications like Los Angeles in the room. The International Olympic Committee’s decision about the host falls in September 2017. In Hamburg a citizen referendum on the application is on November 29 this year provided. Jokingly Nowitzki said to a potentially successful candidacy of the Hanseatic city: “Yeah, well, I would play again 2024. Then I come again with 50″.
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