Jul.3 at 2:55 pm

Kevin says:
does the German team have a chance to contend? i need to follow more international basketball.. lol

Jul.3 at 3:19 pm

daHiVE says:
well, aside from dirk, the rest of the german team apparently isn´t all that happy about the addition…ungrateful bastards.

Jul.3 at 3:22 pm

h-dub says:
@daHiVE: Who told you so? Everybody is happy to have a better chance now going to BEIJING. They need to qualify first in Athens in about 2 Weeks, in a Pre-Tournament. I know ONE Player in Person, and he is damn happy!

Jul.3 at 3:29 pm

daHiVE says:
sport1.de … “die kaman welle schwappt nicht über” jan jagla didn´t sound exactly ecstatic in that article.

Jul.3 at 3:45 pm

blackjack says:
What the hell does that even mean? I don’t speak German

Jul.3 at 3:50 pm

Ryan Jones says:
Jan Jagla went to Penn State for a year or two, and he sucked here. I don’t see him having a lot of luck against Dwight and Booz.

Jul.3 at 3:58 pm

iLL wiLL says:
That’s why we love Shaggy.

Jul.3 at 4:33 pm

jk_light says:
There are a lot of fans in Germany that think, that young prospects should get playing time instead of a guy who probably never was in Germany before 2008. But there are also lots of fans like me that think that Chris Kaman is such an upgrade on the German Team that we are more than happy to have him. But still we have to qualify for Bejing in July. The question is, if the German coach can change his system so it isn’t anymore like “give Dirk the Ball and watch him trying to play one against five”. The rest of the Team are just role players at best, but with Dirk LEADING the team, we had lots of success in the past years. So I think playing in the Semis with Kaman as an addition could be possible.

Jul.3 at 5:14 pm

speedy says:
See it like it is .
Beijing is the last chance for Dirk and a lot of guys on this german team to play an olympic tournament .
So the addition of a player like Kaman is a big plus trying to get there .
But it will be hard to get him into the system because the core of this team has been together so long .
Let’s see.

Jul.3 at 5:33 pm

ciolkstar says:
So Germany will have Dirk and Kaveman on their fromt line. 2 seven footers. THIS is the reason why Tyson Chandler really shoulda been on this team…I guess we didn’t want another poor free throw shooter who’s limited offensively. Bosch and D12 (with Melo at the 3) should be able to check those two. (note: this is the proper usage of the word “check”. I’ve been hearing a lot of people copying Doris Burke and using it exclusively instead of “guard” or “match up with”)

Jul.3 at 8:43 pm

AB_40 says:
Now let’s see if they can quallify for a good spot in there

Jul.4 at 12:28 am

maik says:
i dont think they ll make it. okulaja not playin and he had a bad year in germany,jagla might be the second best players,no scorers but dirk,our guards can´t compete with the best internationla teams and herber out.

Jul.4 at 6:34 am

Lz - Cphfinest3 says:
To the good people at Slam; those HDRC-commercials really f*ck up you’re page, when switching between pages they leave white “blanks” so one cannot see the content of the article or comments. I know they pay the bills but please do something about it. Am I the only one experiencing this?

Jul.4 at 6:46 am

Gerard Himself says:
haha his great-grandparents were German?? DI NOT MENTION THE WAR!

Jul.4 at 7:03 am

Tanny says:
No Lz, me too.

Jul.4 at 7:03 am

Tanny says:
No Lz, me too.

Jul.4 at 6:23 pm

Moose says:
thats a good frontcourt for germany . . . but check out USA’s!