Against outsider from Montenegro
Successful EM start: Germany turns on late and wins
Updated on August 27, 2025 – 6:41 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Germany started the European Championship with its assistant coach. The Ibrahimagic team hesitantly found the game, but turned up against Montenegro in the course of.
The German national basketball team started successfully to the 2025 European Championship. The team led by captain Dennis Schröder initially showed a mixed performance, opponent Montenegro made life difficult for the reigning world champion. After an energy boost, Germany won clearly 106: 76.
Birthday child Franz Wagner (22 points), playmaker Schröder (21) and Andreas Obst (18) were the best German throwers in the Finnish tampere – it was only a 20 -minute competitive start, in which Germany only pulled away in the third quarter. Instead of the diseased head coach Alex Mumbru, his assistant Alan Ibrahimagic came into focus. When Mumbru returns remained open at first.
The German team, which has played in atmospheric halls in Cologne, Munich and Madrid in the past few weeks, had to get used to the relatively bleak atmosphere in Tampere. When NBA-Jungstar Wagner stood on the Freiwurfinie, even individual Happy Birthday chants could be heard on the occasion of his 24th birthday-it was so quiet in the ranks on which only 3,495 spectators had taken a seat.
The formative figure of the first few minutes was Wagner, who moved to the basket with a lot of speed and assertiveness and contributed seven points for early lead. When fruit at 11:11 was a four-point game, Deutsche Bank was fully there for the first time-but the world champion against Montenegro was initially unable to break away with NBA routine Nikola Vučević (34 years).
Germany did not manage to implement the fast playing style desired by Alex Mumbru. Instead, there were many difficult three -point throws, of which only four out of 18 found their destination until the break.
The injured world champion Moritz Wagner, who works as a TV expert for Magenta Sport, still looked completely calm at half-time. “It’s a classic opening game. It is not so easy to build energy in a half -empty hall in the afternoon,” said Wagner. The German team could have used its energy well in front of the predominantly empty ranks.
Germany was initially not on the road as confidently as co -favorite Lithuania, which Great Britain had previously defeated at the start of Group B with 94:70. Which was also due to the rebellious and physically strong opponent.