Germany vs Slovenia: EuroBasket 2022 Key Players

The German engine didn’t really want to run. The Slovenes often a step faster in the rebound, their own offensive, always inconsistent, especially Dennis Schröder in their own throw. Germany steered with big steps towards a bitter out at the European Basketball European Championship. But then Tristan came da Silva.

There were still 3.5 seconds to play in the third quarter, so Silva secured a rebound. The time was just enough to dribble towards the center line. And throw the ball.

From your own half.

There ball flog.

With the final siren he hit the Slovenian basket. Three points.

It was an extremely rare hit. “A little magic,” said the transmission TV station RTL in the summary after the game. “A very important threesome,” analyzed Schröder at RTL.

It was the throw that made the momentum change. Suddenly more wanted to succeed, such as a wild threesome from Andreas Obst at the beginning of the final area. Suddenly a lot jumped out of the ring with Slovenia around the outstanding superstar Luka Doncic. Da Silva was who had drawn the game onto the German side.

But he didn’t really want to hear anything about the meaning of his three, but he did not want to follow the 99: 91 drama in the European Championship quarter-finals. “I’m not thinking too much about it now. I think we still have a job to do. We are glad that we have turned it over in the last quarter,” said Orlando Magic’s NBA player.

Dennis Schröder self -critically

There was relief among the German players, especially captain Schröder, who first gave his wife a kiss. “I am extremely proud of the team, especially because I didn’t play well, did a lot of throws next to it, read false situations, was not aggressive,” said the playmaker self-critically at the RTL microphone. He emphasized his colleagues all the more: “It was a complete team performance. Player of the day is the team.” Incidentally, Schröder still scored 20 points on a bad day.

While Doncic pulled the expected one-man show with 39 points, the DBB team also fought its way back into play through the better substitutes, such as Alan Ibrahimagic, who re-examined the chief role of national coach Alex Mumbru. “It was a very tough game, very emotional. We slowly fought ourselves. We used the longer bank and ended up doing the important plays,” he said.

The surprise team from Finland is waiting in the preliminary round on Friday (4 p.m./RTL/Magenta Sport). “We have to go back to our game,” said Schröder. And further: “We must never underestimate them.” In the preliminary round, Germany had clearly won against the Finns.