"As of another star": Doncic calls for the DBB team - Doncic

On Germany's basketball player, a difficult task is waiting in the Olympic quarter-final. "Somehow we have to try to stop Doncic. That can not make one, all of you have to do twelve," said Captain Robin Benzing. With a healthy portion of respect, the selection of the German basketball federal government goes into the first K.-O. game on Tuesday (300 clock Mesz) against European champion Slovenia around Luka Doncic.

"Genial group phase" of the Slovenes

"They do a very strong tournament so far. Of course we are not the favorites," said Benzing in front of the duel in the Saitama Super Arena in the north of Tokios. "With this ingenious group stage, they have played a real top medal favorite." This is mainly responsible for the 22-year-old Doncic. "He plays like a different star and the team outrum just plays perfectly," said Benzing. Only if it succeeds in reaching him, "we have a very good chance to win".

The look back: Only for the third time is Germany in an Olympic quarter-final. In 1984, in Los Angeles after a 67:78 against hosts USA finish, eight years later in Barcelona by a 76:83 against the community of independent states. Rödl was in Spain at the last K. O. game still as a player in the parquet. Never have it done the DBB selection in the semi-final. At the last Olympic Start they failed in the preliminary round in 2008. "We know that for the next round we have to put a spoon on top," said national player Danilo Barthel now.

Look into the future : With the end of Olympia, the time of Rödl could also expire as a national coach. The contract of the national trainer ends with the tournament in Japan. Before qualifying early July, it was considered an open secret that the association looks like a new coach with a preliminary round in Cologne and the final round in Berlin with a preliminary round. It is unknown that by achieving the final phase in Tokyo has changed. In any case, the coach can rely on a lot of talent: this summer lacked the NBA Dennis Schröder, Daniel Theis, Maximilian Kleber, Isaiah Hartenstein or Franz Wagner among others.

Slovenia Superstar: Luka Doncic is hard to stop at a young age. As a successor to Dirk Nowitzki at Dallas Mavericks, he quickly rose to the offspring star in the NBA. Even with Olympia, the Guard quickly became attentive: 48 points were in the first group match against Argentina at the end on the scoreboard. Sovereign he led the European champion to the group victory. Tame him is the biggest challenge for the DBB selection. Many opponents bite the teeth to Doncic in recent years. The Slovenes are highly dependent on their superstar, which is only very disappointed.

The competition: On Gold-Favorit USA is already a particularly hard test in the round of the last eight. The team around Superstar Kevin Durant has to ran against world champion Spain. For the Americans who have to do without many NBA top players such as LeBron James, Tokyo does not run perfectly in Tokyo. At the kick-off they had lost against France - it was the first defeat for summer games for 17 years. In the fight for the semifinals, the French meet in Italy, Germany's strongest group opponents Australian must compete against Argentina, the 2004 Olympic champion.