In the penultimate European Championship test, the German national basketball team in Spain showed a combative performance and earned a 106: 105 (94:94, 45:38) victory in the extension.
Dennis Schröder managed the decisive basket six seconds before the end of the extension with an energy performance. In the game at the reigning European champion, the DBB selection showed a lot of the speed game in addition to good defense work that national coach Alex Mumbru has in mind. The best thrower was, despite the weaker phases and an overall weak quota, captain Schröder with 26 points. Franz Wagner contributed 19 points.
Daniel Theis was used for longer after his injury break and after the first half of the first half, a little better got going, but went off the field with five fouls in the final phase. Nelson Weidann and Leon Kratzer did not play at all and, in addition to the battered David Krämer, are among the two candidates that Mumbru still has to cut out of the European Championship line-up.
Strong defense, mixed offense
While in the first two quarters the litter quota (49 percent 2, 21 percent 3) was average to weak in the German team, the defensive went well from the start. Germany put pressure on the Spanish offensive both individually and in the team and gave hardly any free throws.
With a 12-0 run to 15: 7, the guests took the lead for the first time in the first quarter. But two gymnastics by Schröder and a successful three of the Spaniards brought the European champion back into the game and the first break in the lead with 24:22.
Schröder as the head of the team
However, the German selection was not impressed by this. With continued powerful defense and a 9-0 run crowned out by a Schröder triangle, the world champion took the booklet back in hand and did not exist until half-time. So Germany led despite 10 Gymnastics With 45:38.
After a good start with successful three -point throws by Johannes Voigtmann and Theis, Spain got better at the beginning of the second half of Spain. Nevertheless, the guests kept their lead, especially because they were quick Transitions And always had an answer from a better quota from a distance. Spain then came in the final phase when Mumbru Schröder and Wagner treated a break. With 76:72 for Germany it went into the last quarter.
Break in the last round
Again, the Mumbru selection came into play faster. Thiemann-Dreier, Steal And point of Schröder – and the world champion was nine points ahead. Then Spain, after all, screwed up his triple quota. In addition, Schröder took some unfavorable litters and almost four and a half minutes before the end the hosts were at 85:87 again.
Mumbru brought his starting line -up with Schröder, Wagner, Andreas Obst, Theis and Voigtmann. Almost four minutes before the end, Theis reached the upper limit with a technical foul and had to get off the field. In a wild final phase with misses and gymnastics on both sides, Spain equalized to 94:94 39 seconds before the end. It remained. Extension.
Germany also started well in Germany. However, Spain did not give up and took the lead 43 seconds before the end with 103: 102 with a threesome for the first time since the beginning of the second quarter. The last word of the game then had Schröder. With an individual campaign six seconds before the end, the captain secured his team the narrow 106: 105 success – the fourth in the fifth preparatory game.
Reunion for the general project in Cologne
On Saturday (7 p.m.), both teams in Cologne meet again for the last endurance test. The Eurobasket 2025 will start from August 27th. The German selection then has its first group game in the Finnish tampere against Montenegro (3:30 p.m.).
Other group opponents are Lithuania, Sweden, Great Britain and the hosts.