Starting lineup five positions and is called the 2-1-2 lineup: In American college basketball, a starting lineup is announced for each team before the game. Starting players are designated as either centers, forwards, or guards. A team can name at most one center, but otherwise any combination of positions is allowable, as long as five players are named. Lineups of three guards, one forward, and one center, or of three guards and two forwards, are the most common alternate lineups. In Canadian football, a team starts with 12 players on offense, 12 players on defense, and a special teams squad of 12
Germany national basketball team seen by many as the "Group of Death", with Spain, Italy, Turkey, Serbia and Iceland. <div style="text-align:left"> Roster for the EuroBasket 2017. In Germany, professional basketball is known for developing players whose parents or grandparents are immigrants. The national team routinely uses many players who have family roots in Africa, Eastern Europe, United States or others, but have grown up in Germany, speak fluent German and are native Germans by law. The last point is especially important, as the new FIBA rules prevent the use of more than one "naturalized" citizen per country. Famous examples of these allochtonous players are: