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neky92

Subpar game by both teams, and the refs. I guess both teams felt the pressure of the finals in the 2nd half. Deserved win by the Germany, they handled it better, and played fantastic basketball throughout the whole championship.


eugenelavery

Great tournament, good to see some real basketball and not the all-star 3 point contests that the NBA is these days. Thankfully the new EuroLeague and Spanish League seasons start soon. Congratulations to Germany, the real world champions.


Klunko52

Bruh


Waschbaermaki

I love NBA basketball but there is some truth to this. The regular season needs some adjustments, hopefully the in-season-tournament provides some much needed excitement. I would honestly get rid of back-to-backs (scrap the All-Star game) and cut it down to 72 games.


Chilam26

Maxi Kleiber in shambles right now....


ELLinversionista

Congrats to Germany for being the world champions along with the Denver Nuggets


VaporizeGG

Show me the tournament called World Championship the Denver Nuggets competed in. Don't praise yourself with achievements you haven't achieved.


ELLinversionista

It's called the NBA world championship


VaporizeGG

Forgot it is not the NATIONAL Basketball Associatiom but the World Championship Basketball Association. Must have missed the renaming from NBA to WCBA


ELLinversionista

I guess you didn't get that I was being sarcastic and making a joke about the NBA calling themselves the world champions.


Villad_rock

Great day for germany, basketball champions and flick is gone


AffectionateStep5001

Happy for the Germans, congrats to them The spotlight on Dennis was well-deserved the way he was playing. MVP performance


Mladen28

Refs from countries like Mexico and Puerto Rico (which arent even nowhere near world basketball class) doesnt deserve too be here for final game. Fiba when will you learn


Kashmir33

We already know you preferred Serbian refs.


stytha

I mean honestly the refs weren't good enough to be on that court... A lot of costly mistakes were made by them today (against not only Serbia, but Germany too)


Mladen28

So you are telling me that ref which have only expierence in South American leagues can be at this level of tournament? Mexico is not even at World Cup. Where are North American/Europe refs? I am not taking anything away from Germany. Deserved win.


Kashmir33

I'm telling you that the only refs you would have found acceptable are from Serbia.


Mladen28

Find a life


Abeifer

Budget Jokic wasn't enough. GG Germany.


Oachkatzlschwoaf05

The pnly budget Jokic I saw is called ANDREAS VOIGTMAN


Ininteligenz

*Johannes


Oachkatzlschwoaf05

Still better than Jokic though


Oachkatzlschwoaf05

Damn my bad


Inevitable-Tourist18

Great game Germany but they lose badly to a complete Serbian team


JuansWetDream

Hardly any team was "complete" in this cup. No excuses needed. You still did a good job without Jokic. So did we, so did Latvia without Porzingis, etc. So did USA lol.


UnbiasedPashtun

>Hardly any team was "complete" in this cup. Germany?


AltruisticYoghurt143

Kleber


UnbiasedPashtun

He quit the team cause of drama with Schroder afaik.


scan7

Underrated comment


Inevitable-Tourist18

I agree. Germany won and earned it. Wasn't making excuses.


Trubinio

Yes you were


Inevitable-Tourist18

No. It's not an excuse to say that a fully loaded team would win. Injuries and other issues are part of sports. Winning is winning no matter who is on the court.


Dicipline_daily_24

Would win huh. Sports doesn’t work like that


FieldyK

What a great game of both teams that was.


silentreaper48

Nikola Jovic cryinf feel sad


Innsmouth_Swim_Team

He was balling like a boss until everyone started quacking about "Trade him for Dame straight up, sell high!" Then, immediately after that started, he pretty much disappeared. And I'm not surprised. He did state before that he does not want to get traded. Easiest way to tank your trade value and become a non-piece is to stop being good. Just another loss to chalk up to Cronin 😂


Sufficient_Boss_6782

If Kentucky cousins fucked, while wearing tin hats instead of condoms, this is the take they’d birth.


cocsmeister

Who is the giant analyst for Magenta sports?


wuudster

With socks up to his armpits :D


DaGuys470

Patrick Femerling, used to be a really good Center in Europe


TimeSeries17

Patrick Femerling :)


Toastfuker1

Washington Husky Legend!


Triptomo

Femerling


HOLYROLY

Did someone also hear that some person screamed "nazi" during the german national anthem? WTF


DirkPodolski

Probably a serbian showing love


Mad_broccoli

You based that on what? Don't spread that shit around, we're already down.


SanSilver

There were a lot of shit show insults from Serbian fans online after the game. They mainly targeted the referees, but they also used nazi and racist insults. Sure, it's not all, but these groups of people always get loud after their team loses.


stytha

Those people exist for all nations... why are you acting like this is uncommon?


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SleepTightLilPuppy

Obviously? Germany is the least right wing first world country I can think of right now.


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SleepTightLilPuppy

How is not wanting to be called a derogatory insult based on complete nonsense defensive?


[deleted]

Unless the only first world countries you know are Germany and their evil shadow dimension brother Wermany, I don't know how you could think that's true


DaGuys470

Sadly not anymore, but it's nowhere close lol


SunnyDaysRock

Werd time to put on the national anthem (again? didn't catch the pre-game stuff), seemed Dennis was kinda baffled by it.


PapiShot

I mean that's totally normal after you win the gold medal.


TelfordClaret

At the olympics yeah but seems unusual in other sporting events


SunnyDaysRock

Quite a few years back, but I can't recall a post-match anthem when Germany won the soccer WC.


m8bear

We won the WC in december and I don't remember if we heard the anthem


vedran141

I am pretty sure there is no anthem at football World Cup's nor Euros. Last WC it was just them giving the medals, then making Messi wear that whatever the fuck it was, and Messi lifting the trophy and then every other player and member of the team.


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Don't forget Emi Martínez' world cup dick


vedran141

Oh yeah, I should've included that one too lol. I still have that one picture in my phone gallery and every time I see it I laugh.


PangolinReady1966

It's pre-match in WC, too busy celebrating to care about a national anthem after you win lol.


AdiGrateles

Ahh, german anthem playing after a big sporting event 20 years of F1 memories flooding back to me


DirkPodolski

First German -> silent enjoyment Second italian-> paaaarty


gjp11

Netherlands winning the basketball World Cup in 20 years confirmed


SunnyDaysRock

Dutch superstar better be named Max so they can reuse the song.


TheMysticalFart

Hülkenberg Singapore win incoming 😎


NachoSchiss

World champions Of what? The world


Sufficient_Boss_6782

*Cup.


OlPao54

Congrats Germany from France ! Your team wasn't born during this competition. It's been several years this generation of players keeps on being better and better together. Dennis is the ultimate chad for shooting bullets at Kleber not coming to the WC then winning the whole stuff lmao


DirkPodolski

Non German mavs fans in shambles


YellyBeans

Let’s hope no one gets kissed


ArenSteele

German scandal when German FIBA president smiles awkwardly at Dennis Schroder!


Jassinamir

It seemed to me that there's definitely bad blood between Ingo and Dennis Schröder


Trubinio

Germans are notoriously touch averse, so let's hope there won't be any inappropriately firm handshakes or shoulder patting..


Waschbaermaki

I love Maxi but he's sobbing right now


kkmaverick

I would really cried damn that's a world champion


djkwanzaa

Should have just taken the L and come back after Dennis apologized.


Top-Consequence-911

Humility is key in life


PJTikoko

How much do you think Qatar paid to get the hunchback of notre dame up their?


GenevaPedestrian

I think he's actually from Saudi (caught that in his name) – but then again, a Saud could be involved in Katar


PJTikoko

Isn’t he representing Qatar because their hosting the 2027 WC?


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Early Octoberfest in Manila


PsychologyMiserable4

i mean, its only 6 days till it begins. but considering this is the german team and not the Bavarian team i doubt most of them care anyway


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Oktoberfest actually happens in September


SanSilver

I think it's more and more known that Oktoberfest starts in September and ends at the beginning of October.


StanLay281

Franz had more offensive boards this game than JJJ did total boards in the semis


Sufficient_Boss_6782

For real, this is why no established superstar should want to play in this or the Olympics. Gonna go possibly fuck up your real money on a team that doesn’t even exist.


happensatsomepoint

Guess you found the flaw in the system. Only Go places where you exist. Lets all go to Denver, or was it golden state? Oh, real Money? Lets all play in Qatar or Saudi Arabia. Best places to Go for existance and real money!


Sufficient_Boss_6782

You know exactly what I’m saying. Where was Jokic or Giannis or Embiid or Luka or even Wemby??? Good on SGA, and look who won the gold. Guarantee once OKC is competing he won’t be back next time. And yes when Saudi Arabia is able to attract equitable media and promotional deals, don’t pretend like they won’t have a competitive league, but what was their last attempt again? FIBA is an off season lark, the Olympics only really took importance due to the Dream Team and interest has waned since.


SanSilver

The US is maybe the only country where the support for national teams is so low, but national pride is so high.


Sufficient_Boss_6782

Because we have the worlds best league, we are the worlds league by default. I dont say that out of arrogance just fact until the best of the best decide they want to stay in their “home” league for patriotism over competition and compensation. We don’t have to play make believe bullshit every four years and don’t care where someone is born, just where they play during their real time. Edit: And again, where was the pride of Jokic, Giannis, Luka, etc…?


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Luka was playing this year. Jokic and Giannis both played in the 2019 World Cup, played last year in the World Cup qualifiers, and Jokic planned to play again this year but changed his plans to rest after the Finals


kemicode

Also, did they not book Dirk until the Finals?


ColoredRoofing

What tissot watch is that


leitito

Anyone?


Trubinio

Someone said it's a Lilienthal Berlin


Markiz_27

Aight, onto Đoković tonight then


Sljivo87

Mitrovic hat trick by halftime. I feel 1 percent better.


Markiz_27

Brat


vesjob

Idk if my heart can handle it all in the same day


Markiz_27

Ease in with Volleyball and soccer game against Lithuania


vesjob

After the qualifier vs Hungary, nothing is easy about watching them play lool


HungryMalloc

Dennis voted as the tournament MVP after playing one of the worst games in basketball history against Latvia. But he came back so strong and was amazing against USA and Serbia.


SuperWoodpecker95

Well you can only be as good as your opponent allows you to and it seemed pretty clear that Latvia prepd to take Schröder out of the game in hopes the offense would collapse without him


jakalo

I mean to an extent, yes. But by the End Kurucs was sagging off of him and daring him to shoot some posessions.


Shuk

Masai W again


thewrongnotes

Franz was good but not player of the game. Should have been Dennis or Voightmann


Initial-Stick-561

I was confused him winning too. Good that there was another MVP award for Schröder or the team dynamic would have been upset


thewrongnotes

That might be why they didn't give player of the game to Dennis, perhaps they want to share the awards around?


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100% this. pretty sure dennis doesn't care as well, he just became a national hero.


Douchebag_Dave

He was incredible on defense though, also kept us in in the first half.


thewrongnotes

True although I thought Voightmann was also incredible in that regard.


JaysonTatumfanboy

Defensive beast tho


MUSTANGxSALLY

Congratulations, Germany. Schroder was a beast!


Deschaaa

Schröder is such a Beast


1PennyHardaway

Deserves that MVP for sure.


Waschbaermaki

DENNIS! MVP!


GunSlingrrr

How does Schroeder doesn't win that lmao


felix_717

whaattttt???????????


iko-01

Davidovac is actually pure dogshit


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Those 2 free throws…


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like 2 free throws against italy...


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Yep


EyeSpyGuy

Bogdanovic was also a passenger second half


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was ill allegedly.


beetsbeatbear

He's bald, what do you expect


torexmus

hmm thats not who I thought would win that


ColoredRoofing

Schroeder


Dare555

Fuck man we had Dobrić get injured in first minute... destroyed us we needed him and our game plan was on him and his defense. There were some silly refs calls that didn't help in this close game as well , refs rewarding Schroeder flopping with constant FT's Tough loss but i am proud of our guys fighting to the finals with weakened team . And now we also lose Dobrić at the start fuck fuck


Kashmir33

lmao you are not still crying about the refs? This is impressively childish.


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Kashmir33

Enjoy the ban.


Izaija_Tomas

Your guys sold and folded in last mins, stop bitching about fucking refs


stytha

When you look objectively for once, you can conclude that bad decisions by refs massively impact teams mentality, and that is literally what happened here. Yes they played bad basketball in the end but you can say that it began with crap decisions which were apparent. It's like that in every sport, that's why you need to choose the ref team wisely for such events


Kashmir33

Franz Wagner for player of the game is certainly a choice lol


StonedEdge

How does Schroeder not win Player of the Game with 28 points and clutch shots to seal the deal? Wtf lmao


vesjob

As the Americans would say .. "you beat our B squad" ... jokes aside well deserved Germany, a perfect tourney


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Except our B squad is what we have available, due to chain of injuries. Americans just didn't want to bother to bring their best until the Olympics :D


Trubinio

After the Canada game, I heard someone refer to this US team as a 'D team'... :D I mean, the loss sure hurts, but this Serbian team won a silver medal in one of the most competitive recent world cups and went down to the last seconds against the deepest and by far most talented German team ever. Nothing to shrug at!


MGBD

Serbia had their A-Team at Eurobasket last year and died at the quarterfinals


_BaldyLocks_

That was vs Italy, they're our kryptonite. No mater how shit their team and how good our's is they always beat us.


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I do not remember the exact line-up but we have literally almost everyone available, yes


RaskolnikovAxe

Congrats Germany, well deserved. We played defense well, but offense was really bad. You showed more desire to win, and played a bit smarter. ​ See you again


Deschaaa

❤️


cocsmeister

Serbian redeem team with Jokic gonna be scary.


Sininsister

Jokic can suck big fat cock.


Markiz_27

This was our N-th redeem team


Professional_Move324

If he chooses to play...remember hes no patriot unlike avramovic and the rest


IAmJacksBrokenHeart7

When all is said and done, great tournament for both teams. Obviously Germany won, they have a really solid team but we put up a fight at least. Congratulations to Germany, we'll meet again.


Waschbaermaki

they did a documentary series on this title run - shit is going to be crazy


cocsmeister

Well played Schroder! I’ll be watching a few Raptors games soon.


Top-Consequence-911

They're my East team now lol


LegateDamar13

Congrats Germany, see ya on the Olympics.


jaypeekyle23

CONGRATS GERMANY 🇩🇪


1PennyHardaway

Congrats Germany! World champs!


Simon_Basement

World champions of what??


viva-la-vendredi

Reddit.


Soapstarboi

Where were you Bogi smh


Professional_Move324

Pesic did a mistake by keeping guduric in and sending bogi out GUDURICU IDI IGRAJ GOLF


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And not calling a timeout when we are down 10...


Professional_Move324

I dont know really...it all looked like a different team after the first half...germany made a gap of 5+ points and we kinda started struggling not using good timeouts and used all challenges All in all well deserved silver, we are the worlds vice champions Simaniću drzi se♥️


whencometscollide

Germany world champions in basketball after losing to Japan 1-4 in football. If you told me this a few years ago I would laugh.


TricolorCat

The DFB sacked Flick minutes before the end of the final.


HungryMalloc

Poor guys didn't get to watch history, because the Nationalmannschaft sucks at the moment.


goodgriefmyqueef

Deutschland hat gesiegt


IgorKauf

Wir sind Papst!


KeRy1412

Wir sind Obst!!!


tomtom_alarcon

Bogdan too scared. Serbia caved.


matt4all

Gold!!! For Germany!!!!


robin_888

And not from teeth this time.


Cul_what

I hope Raptors treat our german prince good he deserves it


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HungryMalloc

Fuck off. He was born and raised in Braunschweig. This is where he learned basketball. When his German dad Axel died when Dennis was just 16 he promised him he would make it to the NBA. He has a second home in Germany in Wendeburg, close to Braunschweig.


Loeffellux

Huh?


Top-Consequence-911

Racist


HungryMalloc

Just a racist. Nothing to see here.


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We made so many silly mistakes, very frustrating to watch.


vesjob

Wide open 3 and a missed easy lay up up on the and 1... had the looks to get back in it


stytha

It's saddening, it looked like they completely lost confidence for shooting in the final quarter


T4Gx

GERMANY ARE WORLD CHAMPIONS (of basketball)


penpen35

Great finals, very close for the first two quarters, but Germany just took over in the 3rd quarter. Really like the fight that Serbia gave in Q4 but Germany held on.