This year, Nowitzki was not at the height of his game.
At the very end of his European Dennis Schröder learned why Fouls as an important tactical means in basketball. Three points was the German team in the decisive match to reach the first knockout round against Spain, the back, and he, her 21 year old leader, had to compensate for it in his hand with a triple for 77:77. As fast as he was on the line, that his opponent could not stop before him; he would get only two free throws. Schröder stopped for distance throwing – there came the challenge. Just four seconds remaining on the clock, 74:77, and three free throws: The gateway to the extension against the Spaniards was wide open. Schröder met his first throw – 75:77. He met with the second – 76:77. And he rejected the third, which would be 27 point will be on Thursday evening. Over and out.
Author: Michael Reinsch, a correspondent for Sport in Berlin
“All who fought and very good played, “Schroeder said a few minutes later. “I take the blame; I have to make the free throw. “That was a sign of the young man who had been lying with his comments not always correct size. This time he led, although national coach Chris Fleming with nearly nine minutes on the bench longer breaks than usual prescribed him, the team, as you would expect at his talent. Seven of his passes led to basket successes, only two times he lost the ball – his best odds in the heavy and close games, which was the German selection at these championships. And then he also hit the right note when he took all the blame. It could have been a quote; because with exactly these words commented Dirk Nowitzki the resignation of the national team four years ago, the year in which he had become with Dallas in the NBA Champion.
This year, Nowitzki was not at the height of his game. On Thursday, he scored ten points, won seven rebounds – and had five the largest share of the 14 ball losses that probably cost his team the success (Spain: six). But the grand old man of German basketball, a player who inspired the generation with which he is now for probably the last time was on the floor with his throws and his sportsmanship. Schröder’s sixteen years younger than Nowitzki. How ambitious it is still showing his commentary on the tournament. “You can not stop losing three games almost,” he said. “That was stupid.” Then he went into the center circle and bowed to the audience gripped. This gesture said over his answer to the question, whether this be a last resort unless been playing in the national team. “Gaze mer times,” he said. Fleming later claimed in the cabin Nowitzki had promised he would play four, five years.
Whether Nowitzki goes or not, he stands for the glorious past. The best of his team represent a promising future. Center Tibor Pleiß, 24 years old, showed in the match with ten points and ten rebounds, why it changes from Spain in the NBA. Maodo Lo, a 21 year old Berliner, who played in New York at the college, was 14 points at a field throw ratio of 75 percent, that could it to him a point guard ripen, which complements perfectly with his roommates Schröder. And Paul Zipser, 21 years old (seven points, three rebounds), the team with his powerful physique and its robust psyche was such maintenance that Nowitzki slapped him with all the enthusiasm in Italy game, when he wanted to praise him. Television tires jubilation about the youth group from Germany showed on Thursday in the Arena am Ostbahnhof in Berlin the most famous of the 13,050 spectators: Kevin Durant, the American basketball superstar, jumped on the sidelines of the seat, as the cheeky Schröder and Lo sink their threesome. ” / p>
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Against Serbia, Italy and Spain, the team made great games and lost just. “The disappointment does not exceed my pride,” Fleming said. The criticism of Schröder on his coach, the action brought by Nowitzki about the absent German players there was long forgotten. “I knew we would play hard,” praised national coach Fleming’s determination of his players. “That is the character of this team.” He had hoped that here a great generation zoom waxes, especially the point guard Schröder and Lo have made important experience in Berlin. Are there limits of hope? “I hope that someday we will come back with a large piece on the shoulder of a tournament,” Fleming said.
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