{"id":459684,"date":"2025-09-12T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=459684"},"modified":"2025-09-12T18:12:43","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:12:43","slug":"germany-lives-up-to-expectations-stellar-offense-downs-finland-98-86-to-reach-the-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/germany-lives-up-to-expectations-stellar-offense-downs-finland-98-86-to-reach-the-final\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany lives up to expectations, stellar offense downs Finland 98\u201386 to reach the final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"284\"><strong data-start=\"96\" data-end=\"148\">Germany is the first finalist at EuroBasket 2025<\/strong>, thanks to a convincing 98\u201386 win over Finland, earning their third appearance in a gold medal game after 1993 (won) and 2005 (lost).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"286\" data-end=\"577\">The reigning world champions delivered yet another offensively flawless performance (their 7th game scoring over 90), putting up 61 points by halftime and building a lead as large as +19 during the game. They finished with 14 three-pointers, 23 assists, and five players in double figures.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"787\">Wagner and Schroder led the charge, while Finland\u2019s run ends in the semifinals despite a strong tournament. Markkanen struggled with 6-of-17 shooting, but the team can still dream of a possible bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"579\" data-end=\"787\"><strong>Germany<\/strong>: Bonga 10+5, O.Da Silva 2, Lo 2, T.Da Silva 13, Wagner 22+5, Theis 10+11, Schroder 26+5+12, Thiemann 6, Obst 7<br \/>\n<strong>Finland<\/strong>: Little 5 &amp; 5 assists, Salin, Nkamhoua 21+9, Jantunen 12+6, Valtonen 6, Maxhuni 9, Markkanen 16+8, Muurinen 12, Gustavson, Grandison 5<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wagner, Schroder, Theis&#8230; just as expected, the world champions shatter Finland&#8217;s dreams and will play for gold in Riga<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":459683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[98,52,39],"tags":[12754,16735,10740],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-459684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-finlandia","category-germania","tag-eurobasket-en","tag-finland","tag-germany"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2025\/09\/e3jhbypmadrkvdytmpep.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/149"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/459683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459684"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=459684"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=459684"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=459684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}