Germany women's national basketball team

You've got some, a bunch of players on the Valkyries that we talked about this, that played on a bunch of different team France.

They played some on Germany.

So like they're missing players.

crucial amounts of time, which to be honest, WNBA teams were still practicing during this time.

If you're American, celebrate this one.

Hell, if you're, if you're French, if you're Spanish, if you're German, especially if you're German.

I, I, I just think, I just think that there were so many teams that had such incredible showings, and I think it just shows where women's basketball is at this point internationally, and I think you're gonna start to-- you alr- you already see those reverberations in the WNBA, especially now that the new CBA is here, and these players that would traditionally play in Europe are now playing, uh, in America.

Um, you're already seeing it, and it's pretty amazing.

Oh, look, the personality of Berlin has really come out.

I've made it a bit of a priority of speaking with the German players who grew up in Berlin.

And I've tried to get like kind of a little bit more specific on the questions with them, just about their upbringing and like going through the neighborhoods on the way to games and stuff like that.

And their responses, the energy that they respond with.

It's been I think I've written this in an article, but it's not it hasn't just felt like a host country.

It really has felt like a host city.

I don't know if your listeners have have seen Germany's Media Day photo shoot, but they did like a pretty rugged like black and white photo.

But like very Berlin style, sort of like, yeah, a fashion shoot more than like a media day, like a classic media day stuff.

Um, so they're, they're a team to watch, I think in future years, if, especially if they can get like a big that wants to play with them, uh, on the national level or on the international level, I guess.

Um, The Germans overcame a terrible first match and have basically run the table the rest of the way.

If anybody, I think, is going to have an upset capability of going to the semifinals, I think I could see the Germans beating the Belgians and facing off against France in the semis to get to the final there.

Yeah.

USA-Spain, I think, is going to be our semi.

So like you would, In a perfect world, you would imagine, okay, you have the home league that would inspire that growth internally for your country, but it just hasn't really happened.

I

also think the Germans are just – if they ever get healthy, they're going to be a France-level problem, but they're just never healthy.