15 points succeed Dirk Nowitzki against Serbia – it is not enough completely to victory
Three seconds before the final selection is based on the German still on par with the arguably best basketball team in Europe. To 66:66 against Serbia Heiko Schaffartzik has compensated with a distance throw, and the audience in the arena by the Berlin Ostbahnhof races, as the 21-year-old Dennis Schröder repeatedly Miloš Teodosic, the maddeningly arrogant playmaker, prevents the kick-off to bring. Then, in the last moment, Nemanja Bjelica, the preeminent scorer of Serbs (12 points), on the sidelines of the ball, pulling against the German center Tibor Pleiß thereof, and throwing the ball in a high arc into the air – and true.
Author: Michael Reinsch, a correspondent for Sport in Berlin
Who would have expected that the German team has to give up the World Cup finalists defeated at the European Basketball Championships only a few tenths of a second before the buzzer 66:68 that they stood in front of 13,000 spectators, not only just before the extension, but even gave away the victory? “We showed the world that we can beat anyone,” said the young Paul Zipser then.
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“It’s hard to say that right after that, but actually we can be very satisfied.” for 26 minutes he was on Sunday on the field, and the two points that he scored, and six rebounds describe not nearly his performance in the defense against the Serb Stars. Only Dirk Nowitzki and Schröder, the players from the NBA, were longer on Sunday in use as the player from Munich.
Even more astonishing than the performance of the national team was their confidence. He was not surprised, Zipser said, but had previously known that they could keep up. Schröder, who led the team with the composure of a veteran and the sprints a born sprinter, said on television: “What we brought for a performance is incredible. We can still get definitely more victories. “The point guard of the Atlanta Hawks came as Schaffartzik on eleven points. Nowitzki, with 37 years the oldest in the team, scored as well as the 25 year old Tibor Pleiß, 15 points.
© dpa Even soccer coach Jürgen Klopp was feverish with in the stands.
Even soccer coach Jürgen Klopp was feverish in the stands with.
“It was a fantastic basketball afternoon,” he concluded. But not great mood decided the game, but “ten, eleven Offensive rebounds that we missed in the first half”, as Nowitzki ruled. “That was the killer.” No sooner had the German player the rival defense under control, they met not so good from a distance. Federal coach Chris Fleming made his disappointment no secret. “That is very bitter to lose in this way,” he said. “We knew that we can compete with the big teams. It could have turned out well for us.
In fact, the German team with the NBA trio Nowitzki, Pleiß and Schröder likely earned great respect – and have warned the upcoming opponent. The will, after the break on this Monday, from Tuesday to Turkey, Italy (Wednesday) and Spain be (Thursday); four from the group B in Berlin qualify for the knockout stages of the tournament in the French city of Lille.
© dpa National Coach Chris Fleming drove the players like Dennis Schröder and over again.
national coach Chris Fleming drove the players like Dennis Schröder and over again.
The Serbs, who defeated the Spanish selection on the eve and had 80:70 defeated, threw at the beginning extremely insecure. The German team wore black jerseys, the raven start the Serbs had caught: their fifteen twenty shots in the first ten minutes went by while the Germans after all met at every second shot. The most notable quota had Pleiß who recovered from the field five of six tests, five free throws took advantage to five points, two Serbian litters blocked spectacular and seven rebounds in his team behind Nowitzki (10) stood out in this category the most.
Among the good prospects that the German team played its Sunday, fits the prognosis of Robin Benzing. Hopped At 71:65 against Iceland on one leg from the field, had let his injury fear a torn ligament, and thus the next failure on the national team. “It’s really dangerous player in position to be four and playing for Germany,” coach Fleming had joked with gallows humor.
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Ironically, on the position of Nowitzki, calculated on the wing, where the new generation of Power Forwards should relieve the old master, is rife injuries: Maxi Kleber, Daniel Theis, Elias Harris have already failed, in addition to the centers Maik Zirbes and Danilo Barthel. As is the amazing game preceded by a miracle cure, Benzing was walking on Sunday with no visible restriction through the hall and went out suddenly optimistic, this Tuesday in the match against Turkey to be back.
The laborious victory over Iceland at the start of the European Championship had nourished doubts about the German chances. "If we do not turn around 180 degrees," warned since Schaffartzik after his team the game had slipped in the fourth quarter and it was almost playful a lead of 18 points, so if not all would otherwise, "we have in the game against Serbia no chance". Everything was different.
Serbia Teodosic 8, Simonovic 5 Kuzmic 4, Bogdanovic 9, Bjelica 12, Markovic 2, Kalinic 6, Nedovic 6, Milosavljevic, Raduljica 7, Erceg 9, Milutinov
Germany Gavel (Bayern München) 4, Giffey (Alba Berlin) 3, King (Alba Berlin), Lo (Columbia University), Nowitzki (Dallas Mavericks) 15, Pleiß (Utah Jazz) 15, Schaffartzik (Unemployed) 11, Schröder (Atlanta Hawks) 11, Tadda (Brose Baskets Bamberg), Voigtmann (Skyliners Frankfurt) 5, Zipser (Bayern München) 2
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