Justus Holatz had to cancel the test at the start of the second quarter due to an ankle injury. The keeper was shot into the basket and accidentally sprained his ankle on landing.
The 22-year-old immediately passed out with a sore face and dropped the package in agony. He was then carried to the locker room on crutches, unable to bear any weight on his ankle.
Holatz had missed part of pre-season through injury and had only recently returned. A definitive diagnosis is still pending.
If this rule were to fail just before the World Cup, it would leave a huge hole in national coach Gordon Herbert’s squad. The 22-year-old is one of the team’s few keepers. DBB had to fire Nick Weiler-Babb from FC Bayern Basketball due to injury.
In this game, the German basketball player showed a convincing performance in the first round of the World Cup dress rehearsal in the desert. The team around captain Dennis Schroeder beat Greece without superstar Giannis Antetokounmpo on Saturday after a very focused and decent performance of 84:71 (33:32).
Six days before the start of the medals at the World Cups in Japan, Indonesia and the Philippines, NBA players Schroeder (Toronto Raptors) and Daniel Theis (Indiana Pacers) with 15 points and Franz Wagner (Orlando Magic) with 14 points. The winner is the best German shooter. Dinos Mitoglou scored 16 points for Antetokounmpo, an offensively weak Greek side, who canceled their World Cup appearance after undergoing knee surgery.
With a win in a repeat of last year’s European Championship quarter-finals, when Germany beat Antitokonmo & Co. en route to a tournament bronze medal, Germany now has four wins from five. friendly matches.
Last week, German Basketball Association (DBB) team Hamburg lost in the Super Cup final to World Cup favorites Canada with a score of 112:113 after extra time. The final World Cup test also takes place in Abu Dhabi on Sunday (6:00 p.m./Magenta Sport) against the United States, who beat Greece 108:86 on Friday.
Immediately after the duel with the Americans, who fought without superstars like LeBron James, Kevin Durant or Stephen Curry, the Germans made a trip to the World Cup stadium in Okinawa. There, the third European Championship will meet hosts Japan in a tough Group E start next Friday (2:10 p.m. / Magenta Sport). The other opponents in the preliminary round are insider favorites Australia and Finland.
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