Bonn - One thing is certain: If he becomes an expert, they build him a monument in Bonn. Mike Koch, in his third year head coach of the Telekom Baskets, stands in front of his coronation.
It would be the first title ever for the Telekom Baskets Bonn. It would be the first title for Mike Koch as head coach. As a player, he has songs like no other German basketball player.
Six times German champion with Leverkusen and Bayreuth, with four times Greek champions Panathinaikos.
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In 2000 he won with Athens, the European League. And in 1993 he managed the national team of the very great litter: In Munich, he became European Champion.
"Since I am a trainer in Bonn, we have always evolving," says Koch. That's true. In November 2005 he took over the team from the controversial coach Daniel Jusup.
In 2006, the team failed in the playoff quarter-finals at Bamberg, just like a year later. Last season, then the sensational final lap as the main entrance seventh. And this year?
"Sure, we want to be champions," says Koch. "When you're in the final, it would be absurd to say that second place would be great." His words chosen by the 43-year-old from accurate.
Like his players. "It is very important that the guys together in character that one has no bad egg in the nest. And that we had in Bonn, in my time ever, "said the man who as a player is an excellent three-point shooter was.
Players hitting times over the traces, like Brandon Bowman, and Vincent Yarbrough (lost her license for alcohol-rides), clarified the matter internally cooking, without fanfare. His boys would like to thank him, to pay back the trust. Bowman and Yarbrough, both are in good shape for weeks.
You want to help everyone, so that at the end of the season, the title goes to Bonn - and Michael Koch to Bonner basketball legend.
