Basketball World Cup: Germany ends Latvia’s dream

This trio would do justice bertans This led to a huge match (20 points) and also zagars (24 points, 8 assists) league leader Latvia A player who argues his destiny down to the last second against a team that has more resources but not so much soul, and has much less on the pitch.

If any team has reached this quarter with better dynamics than this GermanyIt was Latvia. Two teams that are confident in their strength, mentally strong, engaged in a great fight from the start. The reciprocal blows benefited the Baltic team from the start (13-16, m. 10), Bertans had a very inspiring, intense pace. roland blacksmiths and a being zagars, He is ready to step into European stardom if this progress continues.

But Latvia’s reserves are limited on the bench. It would be something else to do with phenomena Kristaps Porzingis On the track instead of the stands. The opposite of Germany, where the engine starts at idle and enters the game with the second unit: Maodo Lo, with Thiemann or brothers Wagnerrelays of misfortune Schroder, obsessed over and over solving individually and rejected as a triple (0/8).

uncertain to the end

With recoil control and slower pace, Germany He was able to drastically cut his opponent’s electric rhythm and. He only got rid of the blackboard that inspired the German team. bertans, infallible from the trio and exverdinegro Zagars. Between the two of them, they supported the Latvian team at a time when the dynamics changed and everything showed that the match could break for the German team at any moment (62-59, 30 min.).

The physical exhaustion of the Baltic team, which carried the epic beyond any logic, began to leave its strong rivals behind. France And Spain. With his most physical quintet, without Schröder on the court and two brothers Wagner Controlling Germany broke the score by pressing the accelerator pedal all the way down in the last quarter (74-60, 34 min.). However, Latvia showed its endurance capacity and returned to the fight with three three-pointers in a row, one from Zagars and two from Zagars. blacksmithsto make it clear that they did not agree to surrender and to blow up the match in a direction that Bertans could turn to. Latviabut at the end who smiled Germany.