Casketball European Championship
When it gets late, the Germans beat too
11.09.2025 – 7:59 p.m.Reading time: 3 min.
Germany’s basketball players make the EM’s knockout phase a crime event. The comeback qualities are no coincidence.
One has been shown in the course of this SEM basketball. It won’t be boring with this German team. The longer it is in the tournament, the more it is apparently on thrill.
If the main round with five clear victories in five games was still tension -free, Dennis Schröder, Franz Wagner and Co. gradually increased the tremor factor. Although the round of 16 against Portugal was just as clear (85:58), as the victories in the group phase, one should not forget that the game threatened to tip over before the final quarter because the lead of the DBB selection had melted to one point.
In the quarter-finals, the preliminary crime thriller highlight against ex-European champion Slovenia with the outstanding superstar Luka Dončić, who scored a whopping 39 points and was on and on it and it was to literally throw the German team out of the tournament.
“It was a really disgusting work victory. They are also part of such championships,” said Moritz Wagner, who was watching the injured, as a TV expert in magenta.
“We don’t lose faith,” said his brother Franz Wagner about the special spirit in the team. And directly provided the explanation of where it comes from: “We have already lost enough games in important moments that we should have won. These sting are still a bit deep. So the motivation comes.”
Wagner alluded to a game of the previous year: the Olympic semi -final against France. In the preliminary round, the hosts were clearly won, followed by evil awakening. The gold dream and after the defeat in the game for bronze, the medal dream also burst.
Now there is a semi-final showdown against the Finnish co-host in Riga on Friday (from 4 p.m. in the T-Online Live ticker), which Germany had dismantled with 91:61 in the group phase in front of its own audience in Tampere.
A constellation that arouses Olympic memories, even if Finland does not play in front of the home audience this time. “The victory from the preliminary round no longer counts. Finland will have the first game in the head, they will want to reciprocate,” believes Center Daniel Theis. “It is a big game for both teams. We still have two games up to our big goal,” said Theis with a view to the desired EM title.