14:29
Nick Weiler-Babb, Johannes Voigtmann, Franz Wagner, Daniel Theis and Dennis Schröder start for the DBB team. Lithuania starts with Domantas Sabonis, Rokas Jokubaitis, Jonas Valančiūnas, Marius Grigonis and Rokas Giedraitis.
14:25
Awesome atmosphere in the darkened hall! The Lithuanians have come with drums, green wigs and inflatable dinosaurs, there really is everything.
14:14
Even if Lithuania has yet to win this tournament, Germany should be warned – the last eight meetings between the two teams have all gone to the Baltics! The last time they met was at the EM 2017, Lithuania prevailed in the group phase with 89:72 against Germany.
14:10
Of course, more than 18,000 spectators are again expected in the Lanxess Arena today. However, around 5,000 have traveled from Lithuania, the southern Baltics are considered to be the hottest fans in Europe.
14:04
Lithuania are still without a win after two games in Group B and are almost in need of a win today. Germany, on the other hand, can already make it clear today that they will reach the round of 16.
14:01
On the other hand, the bank worked all the better for the Berliners Johannes Thiemann and Maodo Lô as well as three-man specialist Andi Obst. Franz Wagner has so far been able to build on his strong NBA form. “The fact that we kept cool heads and played like this says a lot about us. We stayed together as a team,” Schröder said, describing the great spirit in the team.
13:56
After the strong opening win against France, the DBB team found it a little harder against Bosnia-Herzegovina yesterday. Only one of the first seven attempts from the field failed, and at half-time Bosnia led by five points. In the second round, Dennis Schröder managed to improve, but with 18 points he was still the top scorer. However, the native of Braunschweig has not yet shown himself to be in his best form.
1:48 p.m
Have a nice afternoon and welcome to the third group game of the German national basketball team! Opponent today is Lithuania. It starts at 2:30 p.m. in Cologne!