{"id":404155,"date":"2025-09-07T02:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404155\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T02:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T02:29:10","slug":"turkey-germany-advance-to-eurobasket-quarterfinals-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/404155\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey, Germany Advance To EuroBasket Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

After trailing by a slim margin for the majority of the game, Turkey eventually defeated Sweden, 85-79, to advance to the quarterfinals of EuroBasket 2025, writes Semih Tuna of Eurohoops<\/a>. The game was surprisingly competitive, considering Sweden went just 1-4 during the group phase while Turkey was 5-0, including Wednesday\u2019s victory<\/a> over Serbia.<\/p>\n

Rockets<\/strong> big man Alperen Sengun<\/a><\/strong> was once again the standout performer for the Turkish national team, recording game highs of 24 points and 16 rebounds to go along with six assists and two blocks. Heat<\/strong> wing Pelle Larsson<\/a><\/strong> finished with 15 points, four rebounds, four assists and a steal in Sweden\u2019s loss.<\/p>\n

Head coach Ergin Ataman<\/strong> complained both before and after the game about Turkey having to compete at noon local time despite being the top seed from Group A, as Tuna relays in another story for Eurohoops<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t wake up for the beginning of the game. After we understood we were in a difficult situation, in the third quarter, and came back in the game with very good defense, but we gave back this confidence to Sweden,\u201d Ataman said. \u201cFinally, we found a way to win. Now, we will think about the quarterfinal, which I think we will play in regular time, if they don\u2019t want to change again and play in the morning at 11 o\u2019clock.\u201d<\/p>\n

Turkey will face the winner of tomorrow\u2019s matchup between Poland and Bosnia-Herzegovina in the quarterfinals on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Germany, which won the 2023 World Cup, was the only other undefeated team during the group phase and is the top seed from Group B. The Germans struggled mightily from three-point range on Saturday against Portugal, starting out just 1-of-24 before finishing 10-of-36, and only had a one-point lead entering the final period, according to Tuna<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, Germany dominated the final frame, 33-7, to emerge with a 27-point victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, you can improve in every game. I saw the first game with Sweden; they gave a great fight to Turkey, like Portugal gave a great fight to us,\u201d said AS Monaco center Daniel Theis<\/a><\/strong>. \u201cIt\u2019s the knockout stage. There are no easy games anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

The German national team had five players \u2014 including Dennis Schr\u00f6der<\/a><\/strong>, Franz Wagner<\/a><\/strong>, Tristan Da Silva<\/a><\/strong> and Isaac Bonga<\/a><\/strong> \u2014 finish with double-digit points. Portugal was led by Celtics<\/strong> center Neemias Queta<\/a><\/strong>, who finished with game highs of 18 points and 11 rebounds in 27 minutes.<\/p>\n

Germany will face the winner of Sunday\u2019s matchup between Italy and Slovenia on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After trailing by a slim margin for the majority of the game, Turkey eventually defeated Sweden, 85-79, to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[139285,133793,133791,2000,299,133794,1824,139286,139287,139288,139289],"class_list":{"0":"post-404155","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-alperen-sengun","9":"tag-daniel-theis","10":"tag-dennis-schroder","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-franz-wagner","14":"tag-germany","15":"tag-isaac-bonga","16":"tag-neemias-queta","17":"tag-pelle-larsson","18":"tag-tristan-da-silva"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115160662990345194","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}