Frank Buschmann warns of EM semi-final
“Then you can lose very quickly”
Updated on September 12, 2025 – 3:42 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
RTL commentator Frank Buschmann trusts the German basketball players at the European Championship. Before the semi -finals against Finland, he still warned his index finger.
Before the European Championship half-final of the German national basketball team in the afternoon (from 4 p.m. in the live ticker at T-Online), RTL commentator Frank Buschmann urgently warned of the opponent from Finland. “This 30-point victory in the group phase against the Finn was not good. For the simple reason because the Finns will learn from it,” said Buschmann T-Online right before the game. “The question is whether the German team is prepared for the improvement that the Finns will do and whether it has answers to this.”
The German team is a favorite, but through their quarter-final victory, the Finns floated on a wave of euphoria. “And if you beat Serbia, no matter what circumstances, and at Serbia there were a few problems of health in nature, you can honestly beat anyone on a good day,” said the long-time basketball reporter and former second division player: “If there is still a not so optimal day with Germans, keyword hit rate from the outside, then you can quickly lose such a semi-finals.”
Buschmann comments on the live games of the German national team at the European Cup for RTL, together with ex-international Patrick Femerling and ex-Bundesliga trainer Denis Wucherer. He considers the team to be better occupied at depth than in his earlier heyday in the era Dirk Nowitzki. It is difficult to compare the teams. Good players would have acted around Nowitzki, “but it was the supporting cast for Dirk Nowitzki”.
It is different today. The NBA top stars Franz Wagner and Dennis Schröder went in advance, “but then there are other NBA players or at least players with NBA experience: Daniel Theis, Tristan da Silva and in the EuroLeague-tried players like everyone from Bayern Munich or Maodo Lô, who will now switch to Kaunas”. In depth, the team is much more occupied today.