And another injured person at the Fraport Skyliners.

This time it hit Matt Haarms: The 2.21-meter-tall center is out of the basketball Bundesliga club for four to six weeks with a torn ligament.

The Frankfurt hospital is always full to the chagrin of trainer Diego Ocampo.

On this Monday (7 p.m. at MagentaSport) in the home game against Chemnitz, the important playmaker Will Cherry (torn muscle fiber) will probably still be missing.

The use of Donovan Donaldson (groin problems) is also uncertain.

The long-term injuries Bruno Vrcic and Richard Freudenberg are not an issue anyway.

The long list of failures raises questions: Is it just unfortunate injuries that the Skyliners complain so much this season?

Or do the Frankfurters, who are deeply involved in the relegation battle, provoke the large gaps in the squad with their personnel policy?

When putting the team together, the Skyliners took a full risk.

The frugal club could only afford the subsequent signings of Cherry and power forward Jamel McLean because both of them had health problems before they switched.

It then took McLean a few weeks to play his first game against Weissenfels last Sunday.

But he is not yet in full possession of his powers.

The games with Cherry's participation have shown that the Skyliners can hardly do without the American.

Despite his previous history, the 30-year-old had to work quickly to stabilize the unsettled team.

But the burden could have been too high for him.

The development player Brancou Badio also recently suffered from a torn muscle fiber.

The constantly decimated Skyliners are in a vicious circle.

With every injured player, the pressure on the still healthy players increases, and their strain inevitably increases.

This in turn increases the risk of injury, especially for professionals who still have some catching up to do physically.

Even before the season started, Frankfurt tied Reggie Hearn to himself - probably knowing about his ankle problems.

The 30-year-old did not make a point game until he left.