NBA professional Isaiah Hartenstein wants to play at the Olympics, but otherwise says nothing. For ex-professional per Günther an absurd.
This statement ensures explosive. Isaiah Hartenstein, his sign Center at the NBA top team Oklahoma City Thunder, promised the German national basketball team to participate in the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
“I definitely play the Olympics,” said the OKC professional in an interview with the German Press Agency . In the Sport1 interview a few weeks ago, the center had spoken about the Olympic dream. Now representatives of the German Basketball Association around national coach Alex Mumbrú had recently visited him and had “good conversations” with him.
Isaiah Hartenstein is currently causing a conversation
For other tournaments, for example the European Championship in the coming summer, Hartenstein did not want to make a promise. “I just have to see what is happening in the playoffs. For the Olympics, I promised that I definitely want to play there. You just have to see the other things how my body feels.”
And further: “I am now in a good situation and I think I’m one of the top bigs in the league. Before that, I had to prove myself and I was not sure of my role or I was hurt. But now it is one thing where I want to play more for Germany.”
Günther criticizes Hartenstein
“Do more for Germany” – but only at the prestigious Olympic Games and not at the European Championship in Latvia, Finland, Cyprus and Poland? For the long -time German international per Günther.
“Despite the 64 regular season games, Johannes Thiemann (plays at Gunma Crane Thunder, note) for games against Sweden or other things to Germany, plays and is of course at the European Championship. Dennis Schröder feels at every tournament where his legs wear. And then the statement: ‘Yes, I want to play, but I have to watch my body in 2028. Certainly there, “Günther showed himself to eat in Magentasport -Podcast” Department of Basketball “.
“It’s like you are invited to a party and say: ‘Who is coming?’ And your counterpart says: ‘No idea’.
How does the DBB deal with the situation?
For Günther, the main question arises in this question of how to deal with the matter at DBB.
“It would be a great enrichment. I would roll out the red carpet under sporty prerequisites,” clarifies the former point Guard: “Especially with the age structure and just as one or the other position at the German team is currently standing up, I think that there must also be a change in a year or two. He is a monster, he would be so important.”
However, Günther has concerns. One should not underestimate “what this team special, especially in the World Cup year”: “This is the highest good. It is higher than the individual class, which is now there. The most important thing is that this spirit, this cohesion continues. Everything that endangers it, so I would be very careful.”
Kleber as a warning example
The Causa Maxi Kleber is also important in this context: Before the 2023 World Cup, national team captain Dennis Schröder in the “Got Nexxt” podcast had distributed against the then Mavericks professional (among other things, the quote fell: “Sorry, Maxi, but you have no game!”)
He also confirmed his displeasure that Kleber had not participated in the home European home the previous year. In the end, Kleber was neither in the squad at the World Cup triumph nor at the 2024 Olympics.
“When I look at how protective Dennis Schröder was so far, about the players who tear up their butt and who are at every tournament, then I can hardly imagine that it works smoothly with Hartenstein,” accused Günther.
“I would like to give back German basketball more and more”
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“I would like to give back German basketball more and more”
“Do you want to open the door for raisin picking again?”
So Hartenstein has an “incredible value” in terms of sport, but the question arises “whether you want to let it go through it and whether you want to open the door for this raisin picking again.”
For Günther, the statement of the OKC professional is one thing above all: “Unhappy. We love it when athletes are honest, but in this case it has complicated the whole thing when you communicate so openly.”
In an answer to your throw -in of a user, Hartenstein only concentrates on its main source of income NBA and that was not reprehensible, Günther later presented on Instagram.
“I find this too reprehensible. He should set his priorities as much as it fits for him and his family,” said the TV expert: “My point is that the other players endanger their main source of income. For every tournament. Or even every window. And without this risk to risk, there is no participation in the games 2028.”
In his view, Hartenstein must “consider what team, coach and the like think of it if he only confirms for the highlight. If it is fine for everyone and everyone is happy when the best players come: wonderful.”