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2008 German Olympics Basketball Team

Posted: Tue Mar 4, 2008 7:20 pm
by cdcastellon1
Marca, spanish newspaper, and http://sports.aol.com/fanhouse/2008/02/ ... ris-kaman/ has reported that Kaman wants to join Germany in the next FIBA competitions, Olympics etc... The new says he has already contacted with Germany Federation.

Is there any german here to speak about it? Sounds like a rumor...

Anyway Dirk + Kaman would make a great frontcourt in FIBA...

Posted: Tue Mar 4, 2008 7:32 pm
by cdcastellon1
LOS ANGELES - Imagine this sight: Chris Kaman in lederhosen.

OK, maybe that image will never come to fruition, but the Clippers center could be wearing basketball shorts for the German national team.

Kaman is waiting to be approved for a German passport to become eligible for the country's national team. He hopes to join Dallas Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki on the team and compete in this summer's Olympic trials and, hopefully, in the Beijing Olympics.

"The USA never approached me about anything, so I just want to be able to play in the summer," Kaman said. "And this is a way to do it, and it's not some cheesy summer league."

Kaman has had conversations with Nowitzki about playing on the team, and the 7-footer is following a long procedure to prove he is eligible for the squad. He says he is German because of his father's bloodline.

"Dirk put me in contact with a couple of people with the German federation, and they're trying to help me out," Kaman said. "They're trying to dig into my history and find out where I'm from. ... I don't know what the percentages is, the rules and everything. You have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get there. And it kind of stinks, but you have go through it."

http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_8444057?source=rss


Seems this is serious... wow nice for Germany

Posted: Tue Mar 4, 2008 8:59 pm
by AdamTheGreek
That gives Germany some hope finally.

Posted: Tue Mar 4, 2008 9:10 pm
by Cammo101
This would make Germany a second tier contender. Nasty front line.

Posted: Wed Mar 5, 2008 1:38 am
by jt142
Wow, Germany would go from a nobody to a medal contender with Kaman.

Posted: Thu Mar 6, 2008 11:22 pm
by Basti
yeah that would be cool. we'd have two upper class nba big men. GREAT! I guess we'd have one of the better starting frontcourts in europe then.

too bad Dirk isn't going play that long after the olympics. maybe next EC but after that I don't see him playing for our NT. but Kaman is like 25 right? he'd be our new talent to build around. he'd save the heads of the executives of the german basketball league/association

Posted: Fri Mar 7, 2008 12:43 am
by b-ball forever
That'd give em a very interesting frontcourt Kaman/Dirk/Okulaja.
2 bad Okulaja's gettin old now, he's been 1 of my fav Euroball playas of the 2Ks.

Bet Caveman doesn't even speak German tho, and I def don't consider him German.
He was born in the USA, spent his whole life there, and both his parents are American.

Posted: Fri Mar 7, 2008 8:34 am
by Livno
b-ball forever wrote:Bet Caveman doesn't even speak German tho, and I def don't consider him German.
He was born in the USA, spent his whole life there, and both his parents are American.


Germans NT

Posted: Fri Mar 7, 2008 2:27 pm
by b-ball forever
Stanko Barac wrote:-= original quote snipped =-



Germans NT

Posted: Fri Mar 7, 2008 3:31 pm
by Livno
b-ball forever wrote:n who the fark said that I consider those that do have similar profiles German :roll:


no one, me neither!

Posted: Fri Mar 7, 2008 3:52 pm
by b-ball forever
^^AH, I see. All good then

I thought the :eyeroll: was supposed to mean sth else

Posted: Fri Mar 7, 2008 8:43 pm
by Basti
oh I thought Bradley had the same circumstances as Kaman has...

but hey as it was probably mentioned here already, J.R. Holden plays for Russia and I bet he doesn't have russian ancestors. I know he plays in Moscow (CSKA?) but IIRC he didn't play a long time there before he got his citizenship. so I don't think it will be a big issue


@ bball forever: yes that frontcourt would be sick for euro level but as you said it, the warrior is getting old now... too bad. but maybe Dirk Bauermann (our coach) would start Jan-Hendrik Jagla (Dirk 2.0 but obviously not as good) 3 sometimes which would give us a HUGE height advantage. three 7 footers... Jagla is quick and agile enough to play at the 3 IMO, Dirk is playing the 4 spot and Kaman would bang inside. oh and finally we'd have a shotblocking presence inside...

Posted: Fri Mar 7, 2008 9:17 pm
by Livno
looking at the german roster (last euro), you can

Posted: Fri Mar 7, 2008 9:56 pm
by b-ball forever
the_incredible_basti wrote:
@ bball forever: yes that frontcourt would be sick for euro level but as you said it, the warrior is getting old now... too bad. but maybe Dirk Bauermann (our coach) would start Jan-Hendrik Jagla (Dirk 2.0 but obviously not as good) 3 sometimes which would give us a HUGE height advantage. three 7 footers... Jagla is quick and agile enough to play at the 3 IMO, Dirk is playing the 4 spot and Kaman would bang inside. oh and finally we'd have a shotblocking presence inside...

I still liked what I saw from Okulaja at the Eurobasket last year.

Even if he's slowin down I think he still has what it takes 2 start on the German team for the qualifiers this year...

Posted: Sat Mar 8, 2008 3:05 am
by jt142
Does Kaman even speak German? If he doesn't, that might cause some problems.

Still, regardless of language issues, he'd give Germany an inside presence to complement Nowitzki.

Posted: Sat Mar 8, 2008 3:07 am
by jt142
b-ball forever wrote:-= original quote snipped =-


I still liked what I saw from Okulaja at the Eurobasket last year.

Even if he's slowin down I think he still has what it takes 2 start on the German team for the qualifiers this year...


Agreed. Okulaja always played well against the US. I always thought he was one of Germany's better players.

Posted: Sat Mar 8, 2008 5:08 am
by Mr. Savage
jt142 wrote:Does Kaman even speak German? If he doesn't, that might cause some problems.

Still, regardless of language issues, he'd give Germany an inside presence to complement Nowitzki.


The german coach adresses the team in english during timeouts.

Posted: Sat Mar 8, 2008 2:05 pm
by Livno
Mr. Savage wrote:The german coach adresses the team in english during timeouts.


yeah, but can you get the german citizenship without speeking german?
I

Posted: Sat Mar 8, 2008 2:25 pm
by xtf_no4
Stanko Barac wrote:looking at the german roster (last euro), you can

Posted: Sun Mar 9, 2008 6:45 am
by Chuck Diesel
That's a joke. It's one thing for guys Louel Deng and Samuel Dalembert to play for Great Brittan and Canada if they actually spend time growing up in those countries. But all these American guys

But all these American guys (like Holden for Russia, Shamond Williams for the Republic of Georgia, Henry Domercant on Bosnia and now apparently Chris Kamen for Germany and Dan Dickau for Poland) is a complete joke. If you're an American and you're not good enough to make team USA, go play in the summer league. Handing out these fake citizenships to players just so they can play on the countries national team is bizarre.
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