{"id":486101,"date":"2026-03-01T20:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486101"},"modified":"2026-03-01T20:28:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T19:28:24","slug":"germany-strike-back-in-ot-as-croatia-let-a-15-point-lead-slip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/germany-strike-back-in-ot-as-croatia-let-a-15-point-lead-slip\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany strike back in OT as Croatia let a 15-point lead slip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1733\" data-end=\"2151\">Germany beat Croatia <strong data-start=\"1801\" data-end=\"1822\">91-89 in overtime<\/strong> to avenge the earlier 93-88 loss: top scorers <strong data-start=\"1869\" data-end=\"1889\">Mario Hezonja 30<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1894\" data-end=\"1918\">Johannes Thiemann 24<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"1925\" data-end=\"1946\">Oscar da Silva 15<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1951\" data-end=\"1970\">Jaleen Smith 12<\/strong> also central. Thiemann posted 24 points and 12 rebounds, da Silva added a double-double (15 and 11 rebounds), while Smith finished with 12 points, nine rebounds and nine assists.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2153\" data-end=\"2413\">Croatia led by <strong data-start=\"2168\" data-end=\"2174\">15<\/strong> in the third quarter (63-48) but couldn\u2019t hold on as Germany forced overtime at <strong data-start=\"2255\" data-end=\"2264\">77-77<\/strong>. Germany had two chances to win it in regulation, but <strong data-start=\"2319\" data-end=\"2335\">David Kramer<\/strong> missed both attempts, and Hezonja nearly buried a half-court buzzer-beater.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2415\" data-end=\"2628\">In the extra period, the hosts rode the momentum and executed just enough to secure the 91-89 win. The result moves both teams to <strong data-start=\"2545\" data-end=\"2552\">3-1<\/strong> in Group E, with Israel at 2-2 and Cyprus still winless after four games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A rematch worthy of the hype: 77-77 after regulation, then Germany take it 91-89 in overtime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486100,"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":[225,243,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-croatia","category-germany","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/meynptg8pst1u3oayly5.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486101","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486101"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486101"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486101"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}