11-19-2019, 09:40 AM
(This post was last modified: 11-19-2019, 09:49 AM by Jannemann2.)
I'm a Hamburger (sic!) from northern Germany. If you followed the forum closely, you'll have recently learned that "burg" is "fortress/castle" in German and Würzburg actually means something like "Spicefortress" 
. The city of Hamburg is named after the ancient Hammaburg, a (rather unimpressive and lost) fortress build around 800 a.d. (actually even earlier) near the rivers Alster and Elbe. And, to close the story arc, a person from Hamburg is a Hamburger - in German 
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If I remember correctly, I discovered this community a year after the championship.
I always liked Dirk and am happy I managed to view him play in person "last minute" in 2015 at the Eurobasket in Berlin and a preparation tourney in Hamburg. Even if he's from southern Germany, his layed-back approach is something more often attributed to us northern Germans.
I've spent a lot of tired days due to watching the Mavs every other night but with a little son I couldn't manage the extra toll that takes in recent years, so I usually try to avoid spoilers and watch the games with a few hours delay on league pass.
I absolutely loved Basketball when I played it first in school during the late 80s/early 90s, but as it wasn't big in Germany that days and the organized part of my free time was packed with practicing music, I've never managed to do more than play in kind of a school team that was practicing on 7 am once a week on a voluntary basis ... (and was in no way comparable to the level of organized basketball at us schools). However, I try to make my son aware of the beautiful game and so far he seems to like it, even if it's only throwing a pair of socks or a childrens soft ball into some sort of basket placed at the heating system.
. The city of Hamburg is named after the ancient Hammaburg, a (rather unimpressive and lost) fortress build around 800 a.d. (actually even earlier) near the rivers Alster and Elbe. And, to close the story arc, a person from Hamburg is a Hamburger - in German .If I remember correctly, I discovered this community a year after the championship.
I always liked Dirk and am happy I managed to view him play in person "last minute" in 2015 at the Eurobasket in Berlin and a preparation tourney in Hamburg. Even if he's from southern Germany, his layed-back approach is something more often attributed to us northern Germans.
I've spent a lot of tired days due to watching the Mavs every other night but with a little son I couldn't manage the extra toll that takes in recent years, so I usually try to avoid spoilers and watch the games with a few hours delay on league pass.
I absolutely loved Basketball when I played it first in school during the late 80s/early 90s, but as it wasn't big in Germany that days and the organized part of my free time was packed with practicing music, I've never managed to do more than play in kind of a school team that was practicing on 7 am once a week on a voluntary basis ... (and was in no way comparable to the level of organized basketball at us schools). However, I try to make my son aware of the beautiful game and so far he seems to like it, even if it's only throwing a pair of socks or a childrens soft ball into some sort of basket placed at the heating system
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