After a short EM break: Lo and Thiemann back at Alba Berlin
Sdh were greeted loudly and with much cheering by their colleagues at Alba Berlin. On Friday, the two German participants in the European Championship, Maodo Lo and Johannes Thiemann, also joined the basketball champions’ team training. The duo had won bronze with the national team at the European Championships. “I haven’t seen most of it for a long time. I was happy to see the boys again, »said Thiemann in Berlin.
The two had four days to recover. Little time after an exhausting tournament. “Of course you would have liked to have had an extra week off. But now I’m looking forward to the new season again,” said the center. “It’s a bit abrupt. You have to try to create a distance mentally,” said Lo.
The duo, who complete the Alba squad a few days before the start of the season, have to quickly adapt from the national team’s game system to Alba’s. “But that WILL not cause any problems. Because the philosophy has been internalized for the last four years, »said Thiemann.
In particular, the challenge will be of a mental nature. “Of course people are tired and a bit exhausted – especially mentally. Because of course it was such euphoria the whole time. Basically like playoffs all the time,” said the 28-year-old.
The forces must therefore be distributed – a challenge. “It’s damn difficult because you just have so many games that you can’t even say I’m holding back in training because you hardly train at all, you only have games,” said Thiemann. In the last test on Sunday in Oranienburg against newly promoted Rostock Seawolves, Lo and Thiemann are rested. Alba starts the new season at home against Veolia Towers Hamburg (7 p.m. / Magentasport) on Wednesday. Then certainly with the two bronze medal winners.