The American basketball team surprisingly fell this Friday against its German counterpart in the semifinals of the Basketball World Cup in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. With a score of 111-113, the United States team was left without a final for the second consecutive World Cup.
In this way, the favorite team to lift the cup was left out in a highly offensive game that went into the halftime break with 119 points scored. Despite the German dominance, the North American quintet had a heart-stopping final quarter in which they came close to turning the score around.
Andreas Obst with 24 points, Franz Wagner with 22 and Dennis Schroeder with 17, were the ones who led the German offensivewhile Austin Reaves with 21 points and Anthony Edwards with 23, added to the American offense.
Germany will play the first final in its history against the Serbian team, which arrives just as emboldened after having left the favorite Canada on the road (95-86).
“It’s not 1992 anymore”
In the press conference after the match, American coach Steve Kerr, former player of Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls with whom he won three rings and world champion with the United States in the 1986 World Cup, pointed out that basketball has changed and that It is not like in 1992, where the United States was an undisputed team.
“Basketball has become globalized in the last 30 years, these games are difficult, this is not 1992. The players are better“The teams are better and it is not easy to win a World Cup or the Olympic Games,” said the coach who has four NBA titles with the Golden State Warriors.
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