2024-07-22 22:20:07
Americans 92:88 (29:17, 19:22, 20:30, 24:17) broke 2023. German world champions.
L.James scored 20 points (6/9 doubles, 2/2 triples, 2/4 penalties) in 18 minutes on the field, of which the “King” even scored 11 in a row at the end of the fourth quarter. The 39-year-old forward added 6 rebounds and 4 assists in a 24-point performance.
Only Joel Embiid played more usefully for the US national team than L. James, who scored 15 points (4/7 doubles, 1/1 triples, 4/4 penalties), grabbed 8 rebounds, distributed 5 assists in 21 minutes on the floor. and finished the match with 29 utility points.
Orlando Magic forward Franz Wagner played the best in the ranks of the German national team. The 22-year-old forward scored 18 points (4/9 doubles, 2/5 attempts, 4/4 penalties), added 7 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 steals and accumulated 21 utility points in 29 minutes.
The match started with a point-to-point battle and both teams fought hard until the middle of the first quarter (11:13), but after that a five-minute period was won by Steve Kerr’s students 21-4, who had a double-digit advantage after the first ten minutes of the game (29:17 ).
However, in the second half, the Germans did not raise the white flag and before the long break cut the advantage of the USA national team to single digits (48:41).
The Germans had a better start to the third quarter, who won the 3-minute section 2:12 and rebalanced the result of the match (52:53). After that, the teams exchanged successful episodes, and even later, the Americans responded with an 8-0 run and regained the advantage they had (62:55).
However, at the end of the quarter, Gordon Herbert’s students looked better, winning the rest of the quarter by 6:16 and entering the decisive quarter with a 3-point advantage (68:71).
At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Germans looked a little better, but after that, the Americans defended themselves several times, ran into a fast attack, and after Devin Booker’s two-pointer with a foul, the USA regained a fragile advantage of a few points (78:75).
However, immediately after that Andreas Obst responded with a three-pointer and tied the score of the match (78:78), after which Joel Embiid and F.Wagner each scored a two-pointer, and the winner was still not clear at halftime (80:80).
A little later, L. James scored 6 points in a row and returned a somewhat safer advantage to the USA (87:82). After that, the Germans scored four points in a row and with 1.5 minutes before the end of the game, the Germans trailed by a point (87:86). In the next attack, L. James hit another three-pointer and added a two-pointer, which meant that the “king” scored as many as 11 consecutive points for the US national team in the decisive period (92:86).
In the remaining time, the Germans scored two points and in the end the USA basketball players won the match 92:88.
The USA national team did not stumble once in the marathon of control matches – they defeated the Canadian national team 86:72, defeated the Australians 98:92, crushed the Serbians 105:79 and won 101:100 against the South Sudan national team.
The Americans will compete in Group C at the Olympics, where they will meet with Serbia, Puerto Rico and South Sudan.
Meanwhile, the Germans have won 3 times in the warm-up cycle and suffered a total of two defeats after this match. The world champions lost only the first control match against the French (66:90), and then they took revenge on the same French 70:65, blew away the Dutch national team 95:50 and crushed the Japanese 104:83.
The Germans will compete in Group B at the Olympic Games, where they will meet the national teams of France, Japan and Brazil.
US National Team: LeBron James 20 (6 rebounds, 4 assists, 24 assists), Joel Embiid 15 (8 rebounds, 5 assists, 29 assists), Stephen Curry 13 ( 4/6 doubles, 1/7 triples, 2/3 rebounds, 3 rebounds, Anthony Edwards 11 (4/8 doubles, 3/6 rebounds), Anthony Davis (3/5 doubles) , 4/4 rebounds, 18 rebounds and Jrue Holiday (2/3 doubles, 2/3 rebounds, 3 rebounds, 15 rebounds). points) after 10.
Germany national team: Franz Wagner 18 (7 rebounds, 4 assists, 3 assists), Andreas Obst 14 (1/2 doubles, 4/10 triples), Daniel Theis (4/6 doubles, 1 /3 points, 2 points, 4 rebounds, 20 points and Dennis Schroder (0/4 points, 4/6 points). , 10 assists) each, Moritz Wagner 12 (5/7 doubles, 0/1 triples, 2/2 penalties, 7 rebounds).
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