{"id":134958,"date":"2025-09-11T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134958\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:14:07","slug":"germany-tops-slovenia-to-round-out-eurobaskets-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/134958\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Tops Slovenia To Round Out EuroBasket’s Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

Germany overcame a second-half deficit and another scoring outburst by Luka Doncic<\/a> to defeat Slovenia for a spot in the EuroBasket semifinals, writes Cesare Milanti of Eurohoops<\/a>. Wednesday\u2019s 99-91 victory preserves the Germans\u2019 chances to capture another major international title after winning the FIBA World Cup in 2023.<\/p>\n

Germany trailed by seven points late in the third quarter, but Tristan Da Silva<\/a> sank a shot from mid-court at the buzzer to cut Slovenia\u2019s lead to 74-70. That was the beginning of a 10-0 run that saw the German team take control of the game.<\/p>\n

Franz Wagner<\/a> led Germany with 23 points and seven rebounds, while Dennis Schr\u00f6der<\/a> contributed 20 points and seven assists. Former NBA center Daniel Theis<\/a> added 15 points and nine rebounds. Maodo Lo<\/a> scored 11 points and Andreas Obst<\/a> had 10, as both players knocked down clutch three-pointers late in the game to preserve Germany\u2019s lead.<\/p>\n

Doncic, who has been posting historic<\/a> performances<\/a> throughout the tournament, set another record today with 39 points, the most anyone has ever scored in a EuroBasket quarterfinal contest. Despite picking up his fourth foul early in the third quarter, Doncic also finished with 10 rebounds and seven assists to narrowly miss another triple-double.<\/p>\n

After the game, Slovenian players voiced complaints about the officiating, with center Alen Omic<\/a> telling reporters that Doncic doesn\u2019t get the respect he deserves, per Pijus Sapetka of BasketNews<\/a>. Omic also pointed to the free throw disparity, with Germany getting 37 shots from the foul line compared to Slovenia\u2019s 25.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur best player in EuroBasket is not protected the way he needs to be,\u201d Omic said. \u201cHe got three fouls in 10\u201315 minutes of the game. What is this? He\u2019s the best player of the tournament. Everybody comes to watch him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doncic also commented on the officials in a post-game interview with Slovenia\u2019s Sport TV, relays Semih Tuna of Eurohoops<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, I got a technical foul, two minutes into a game, for yelling \u2018hello\u2019, but OK,\u201d Doncic said. \u201cIn a quarterfinal, that shouldn\u2019t happen, no matter what kind of player you are. If you don\u2019t even get a warning first, then I don\u2019t know. But it\u2019s a quarterfinal, fighting for a semifinal, so I really don\u2019t know how they did that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The semifinal games will take place Friday at Arena Riga in Latvia, with Germany facing Finland in the opener, followed by a clash between Greece and Turkey. The tournament will conclude Sunday with the gold medal game and the third-place game.<\/p>\n

FIBA has ranked<\/a> the four quarterfinal losers, with Lithuania finishing fifth, followed by Poland, Slovenia and Georgia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Germany overcame a second-half deficit and another scoring outburst by Luka Doncic to defeat Slovenia for a spot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[93202,64,63,726,93203,19700,19711,11473,93204,85,10859],"class_list":{"0":"post-134958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-andreas-obst","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-basketball","12":"tag-daniel-theis","13":"tag-dennis-schroder","14":"tag-franz-wagner","15":"tag-luka-doncic","16":"tag-maodo-lo","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-tristan-da-silva"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}