Malik Riddle (193-G-1999, college: HSU) is a 24 year old 193cm guard from Tennessee playing his second professional season and first in Germany with Pro B team RheinStars Cologne. Last season he played with Gzira Athleta Birkirkara (Malta-BOV League D1) averaging 28.8ppg, 9.4rpg, 3.9apg, Steals-3 (2.6spg), FGP: 57.8%, 3PT: 33.1%, FT: 75.5%. He began his basketball career at Rossville Christian Academy. He then played 2 seasons at Morehead State University (NCAA) and then played 3 seasons at Henderson State University (NCAA2). He teams up with germanhoops.com every week to talk basketball.

The RheinStars Cologne lost a tough 89-85 game on the road in Oberaching. You had beaten them with 4 less than a month ago. Did you feel like their revenge factor was high?

Yeah I felt like they was more aggressive than we were as a team and they seemed like they wanted the win more than us.

You only played 56 seconds. Did you get hurt?

Yes got hurt blocking a shot sadly.

The RheinStars had the slim 43-40 lead at half-time. What was key for having the slim lead?

We were doing pretty solid job with playing fast as well as turning them over in first half.

In the fourth quarter Oberaching came back scoring 22 points led by Omari Knox and get the lead. What adjustments did they make?

Knox was making his shots. Some of our mistakes on defense gave him an opportunity to have some good looks, and for a shooter that’s all you need

Did the quick start by Oberaching in the fourth quarter and 2 three´s by Knox and Koegler seal the win? The RheinStars couldn´t get over the hump despite fighting back.

That hurt but we still had chances to take control of the game of opportunities to come out with a win, but I still think we made some careless mistakes by us.

How talented is Oberaching? Could they give teams problems in the playoffs?

They are very aggressive team so I could see them giving teams problems.

Davi Remagen had his break out game with 26 points and 7 assists after having a 40 plus points NBBL game a week ago. How talented is this 17 year old?

Davi is very talented and has a lot of skill and potential. Yesterday I could tell he was in a different attack mode and was playing great.

The next game is against Ludwigsburg who you disposed of by 25 points at home. What will be key to the win?

We have to come together as a team and not take any team for granted. We have to come out and be the aggressors and get back to playing our game how we did in beginning of the season.

Thanks Malik for the chat