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Berlin (dpa) - After six days without play, the German basketball champion Alba Berlin starts the next game marathon.
There are 14 games to be played until the end of March, starting with the encounter on Friday in its own hall in the Euroleague against the Greek top club Panathinaikos Athens (8 p.m. / Magentasport).
«A very difficult game awaits us.
They have a lot of great players on their team, »warned playmaker Peyton Siva.
After all, the Berliners will be able to compete fresh and rested.
After playing three times a week for months, the short break came at just the right time.
It wasn't just about recharging the battery, it was also about finally training again.
Because of the many games and trips, there was hardly any opportunity to do so recently.
A lot of work has been done on some details in the last few days.
For Johannes Thiemann's national games, the main thing was to "get back into good habits."
Therefore, it will be important for Alba against Panathinaikos to go back to the upper limit.
“It will be important for us to start the game with a lot of energy and bring our style of play to the field,” said Siva.
The Berliners are currently tenth in the table, Athens is one place ahead.
The Greeks recently had several corona cases in their squad and had to be in quarantine.
The game against Alba is their first game after the break.
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It is still unclear whether the new signing Christ Koumadje, announced on Thursday, will already appear for Alba.
The 2.21 meter tall and 24 year old center player received a contract until the end of the season and is eligible to play in the Bundesliga as well as in the Euroleague.
"It fits very well with our philosophy of developing interesting, promising players to their highest level," said Alba sporting director Himar Ojeda.
Last season, Koumadje was named “Defensive Player of the Year” in the G-League, a youth division of the NBA.
This season Koumadje already played for the Spanish first division club Estudiantes Madrid and Avtodor Saratow in Russia and would be predestined as an opponent of the great players of Panathinaikos.
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ALBA Berlin squad