Here are a few snippets of the media reaction in Germany.

According to german sport magazine "kicker" Dirk is a strong candidate to carry the German flag at the olympic opening ceremony. They quote the president of the geman NOC Thomas Bach: "He would be an ideal ambassador for the whole team.." (sorry for my poor translation). -> Link

Dirk Bauermann, coach of the national team, says that Nowitzki is probably in the form of his life. He says this was the best Dirk played for the national team ever, even better than at the Euro 2005 when Germany won the silver medal and he was the tournament MVP. I haven't seen much of the games in the last weeks, but 2005 Dirk was unbelievable. If ever someone comes up again with Dirk being a bad clutch performer, just get him the tapes of the knock-out games of that tournament. Awesome. When Nowitzki was subbed in the closing minutes of the finals, the whole crowd gave him standing ovations with about 90% being fans of Greece. I still get goose bumps thinking of that.

Also in the interview is said that Chris Kaman will live in a hotel in Dirk's hometown until training camp for the olympics will start. They will practice together and Dirk and his family will take care of Chris. Seeing them play so well together for the national team I wonder how good they could be together in Dallas...

Here is the link, although it's in German as well.

Although the deeds of the Mavs FO probably is the main story right now, I thought I'd give you an update on how Dirk is doing right now. Currently he is preparing for the Olympic games in Bejing with the german national team. Unfortunately Germany isn't even qualified yet. They have to finish at least third in an upcoming tournament in Greece to fulfill Dirk his biggest dream (besides a Championship) of participating in the olympic games.

Last night Germany played an exhibition game against Puerto Rico with JJB (Carlos Arroyo did not play). Well, it didn't go too well for Dirk. Germany lost 83:85 with JJB being the games top scorer with 24 pts. Dirk was the top scroer for Germany with 21 pts.

The first two exhibition games were easy wins for Germany coming both against Poland and Dirk was in good form.

But the biggest news from the national team probably is that the Clippers' Chris Kaman now is German and will play for the team in the upcoming qualifying tournament.