Germany celebrates after beating Latvia to achieve the Fiba World Cup semifinals. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
MANILA, Philippines — Germany will play Staff USA within the semifinals of the Fiba World Cup, a rematch of an exhibition matchup from earlier this summer time the place the Individuals wanted a giant rally to win.
Franz Wagner scored 16 factors and Germany — the final unbeaten group left within the World Cup — held off Latvia 81-79 in a quarterfinal sport on Wednesday, pulling away within the fourth quarter of what had been a back-and-forth matchup for the primary half-hour.
Subsequent up: The U.S. on Friday for a spot in Sunday’s gold medal sport. The U.S. beat Germany 99-91 on Aug. 20 in Abu Dhabi, rallying from a 16-point second-half deficit and needing an 18-0 run down the stretch to take management.
That sport was a scrimmage, meaningless, the ultimate tune-up earlier than the World Cup. Friday’s sport might be very, very totally different.
Andreas Obst scored 13 for Germany, which survived on an evening the place Dennis Schroder was 4 for 26 from the ground.
Arturs Zagars scored 24 and Davis Bertans scored 20 for Latvia.
Germany’s Mo Wagner. -MARLO CUETO/INQUIRER.web
With the win, Germany is assured of no worse than its second-best end in basketball’s high two worldwide occasions — the World Cup and the Olympics. The Germans had been third within the 2002 world championships, an occasion now referred to as the World Cup, and have by no means positioned higher than seventh at an Olympics.
Latvia can nonetheless end as excessive as fifth in its first World Cup look. It’ll play Italy in Thursday’s comfort playoffs, then play for both fifth- or seventh-place on Saturday.
The Individuals rolled previous Italy 100-63 within the quarterfinals on Tuesday. They took Wednesday off, utilizing a part of the day to go to the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial — even participating in a short ceremony to commemorate the hundreds of World Conflict II troopers who’re buried or memorialized there.
They’ll resume follow Thursday, totally conscious of the problem Germany offered them with about three weeks in the past.
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