Germany will play the United States within the semi-finals of the Basketball World Cup, a rematch of an exhibition matchup from earlier this summer season when the Americans wanted an enormous rally to win.
Franz Wagner scored 16 factors as Germany – the final unbeaten group left within the World Cup – held off Latvia 81-79 of their quarter-final sport on Wednesday.
The Germans pulled away within the fourth quarter of what had been a back-and-forth matchup for the primary half-hour.
Next up for the Germans would be the US on Friday for a spot in Sunday’s gold medal sport.
The US beat Germany 99-91 on August 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 and meaningless because it was the ultimate tune-up earlier than the World Cup. Friday’s sport might be very completely different.
Andreas Obst scored 13 for Germany, who survived on an evening the place Dennis Schroder was 4 from 26 from the ground.
Arturs Zagars scored 24 and Davis Bertans scored 20 for Latvia.
With the win, Germany are assured of no worse than their second-best end in basketball’s prime two worldwide occasions – the World Cup and the Olympics.
The Germans have 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 of their first World Cup look.
They tackle Italy in Thursday’s comfort playoffs, then play for both fifth or seventh-place on Saturday.
The Americans rolled previous Italy 100-63 within the quarter-finals on Tuesday.
They took Wednesday off however will resume apply on Thursday, absolutely conscious of the problem Germany posed them about three weeks in the past.
Source: www.perthnow.com.au
