NathanFielderFriend | Canada

315 | 5 days ago

Future hall of famer Dennis Schroder?

AcanthocephalaSad541 | Heat

142 | 5 days ago

One more Olympic silver and probably tbh

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

132 | 5 days ago

Olympic silver? He has a case after this EuroBasket alone tbh

[deleted]

91 | 5 days ago

I have no clue what the standard is for foreign players but he has 1 FIBA gold and 1 bronze in eurobasket. He gets at least a Silver in this Eurobasket.

So worst case it is 1 FIBA gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze at Eurobasket. Best case, you replace silver with gold.

AccomplishedRainbow1 | Suns

153 | 5 days ago

He’s going to be MVP if they win the tournament. He’s dominated FIBA for the last 4-5 years. One of the best FIBA players this century and he has the team success. He’s taken out all of the big guns along the way as well.

Wedbo | Rockets

7 | 5 days ago

Ignore my flair but I think Sengun has a strong case for MVP win or lose the title game. Unless he disappears of course

AccomplishedRainbow1 | Suns

38 | 5 days ago

He definitely does but I can’t see them not giving it to the best player on the winning team. Especially because Schroder has been great.

NeverSober1900 | Rockets

2 | 5 days ago

I’m with you on that. If it was another team that would be one thing but Schroder has been good enough you have to reward him

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

68 | 5 days ago

Getting a gold at both EuroBasket and the World Cup is pretty rare air tbf

Proof-Umpire-7718 | Lakers

56 | 5 days ago

Germany’s upset against the USA in 2023 was amazing.

Agreeable_Wonder8534

29 | 5 days ago

The game that prompted LeBron to call Steph and KD lol

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

15 | 5 days ago

Agreed that was an epic game same with us against USA too

Proof-Umpire-7718 | Lakers

4 | 5 days ago

So funny that the US didn’t get a medal in that tournament.

I’m Australian, so I think it’s cool to see other countries seriously challenge the US, even if the US were far from full strength in that tournament.

lifestepvan | Supersonics

10 | 5 days ago

It made so many people suddenly care a lot about making it publicly known how little they care about the world cup…

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19 | 5 days ago

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eucldian | Raptors

2 | 5 days ago

Raptors felt that way after he won the world cup after they signed him…it didn’t turn out that way. Lol

alfi_k | Mavericks

313 | 5 days ago

I knew Finland was cooked when I saw Moe Wagner in a “The Swagners - Berlin” t-shirt.

TingusPingis | Pistons

71 | 5 days ago

Just imagining a German pronounce that Swaahg-ners and im laughing

NBA_shitposting101

23 | 5 days ago

Swäägga

Jaegernaut42 | Celtics

4 | 5 days ago

Svagner

bli_bla_blubbb | Magic

-26 | 5 days ago

Yeah because we can’t speak English hahahaha. Zo fänny.

How many languages do you speak? Like, really, fluently speak?

GonzoMonzo43 | Thunder

15 | 5 days ago

Aggressive much? Who soggied your schnitzel this morning?

TingusPingis | Pistons

18 | 5 days ago

Lmao are you seriously upset about this? It’s not a criticism, it’s the fact that it reads differently because of the vowel difference.

1unosuke

10 | 5 days ago

That is such a german response

soccermodsareshit

8 | 5 days ago

Hey, at least it’s better than the American response of just shooting the guy who was mean to you.

1unosuke

-1 | 5 days ago

That’s more the response of the country with the biggest gun, Germany would do the same, if they could, like any other country. That’s a problem of the capitalistic system. Everybody against anybody.

Brystvorter | Nuggets

-5 | 5 days ago

Wow congrats on being born in a multilingual country, it must have been such a grind to learn multiple languages

👏👏👏

sorendiz | HOU

1 | 4 days ago

I feel like it is objectively more of a grind to learn multiple languages than it is to not learn multiple languages. Dunno about this one chief

JaspuGG

160 | 5 days ago

Good game Germany, we tried. You deserve to be in the finals for sure. At least we were better than last time haha

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

54 | 5 days ago

Rooting for y’all to get bronze! The Wolfpack are super fun to root for. Also Miikka is gonna be so good in the NBA and future tournaments I can’t wait

JaspuGG

24 | 5 days ago

Would be amazing to get a medal! This tournament has kinda become a sensation in Finland too, many eyes when usually there are none. Headlines after the Serbia win for example. Could help the sport a lot in Finland

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

7 | 5 days ago

I hope so! These tournaments are so fun when new countries rise up and this feels like the start of something special for Finland

Brilliant-Net-750

32 | 5 days ago

Finland v Serbia was the game and victory of the tournament already

Crystii | Finland

9 | 5 days ago

It is true that it blew the roof off already, but we need to stay hungry for sunday

nutelamitbutter | Rockets

3 | 5 days ago

It was a good game!

lobito756

2 | 5 days ago

As a Swede you’re our inspiration on the men’s side. It’s very impressive the consistent successes that you’ve had. I hope you have many more, because to me it’s just inspirational

KarrotMovies | LAL

102 | 5 days ago

Schroder is so goated whenever he suits up for Germany. I respect how much he seems to lovd his country

NABAKLAB | IND

15 | 5 days ago

he has had his stinkers (Euro QF vs Slovenia this year, World QF vs Latvia), but nevertheless the team still barely won these games, and ultimately looks like they could win both tournaments

of course, hats off to him balling out in FIBA

CreativeMud8198

96 | 5 days ago

Schröder was absurdly good. Looked like he was toying around at a local basketball court, but still dominated.

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

26 | 5 days ago

He was back to himself today forsure, now can he do it for one more game?

NBA_shitposting101

-2 | 5 days ago

He can for sure but Türkiye is the better team I guess. They lost against them in the preparation game before Eurobasket.

Flaiimz | Magic

11 | 5 days ago

I always take preparation games with a grain of salt, but it’s going to be a close game if both teams are playing as they are expected to. Turkey is kinda tearing Greece apart

GeraltFromHiShinUnit

8 | 5 days ago

They won against them by one point

NBA_shitposting101

1 | 4 days ago

oh right

The_MadStork | NYK

91 | 5 days ago

Schroder has always been very good, he’s just been cast in lots of roles that don’t suit him. It seems like the Kings might be able to deploy him similarly to how Germany does, in which case get ready for a huge season from him

nutelamitbutter | Rockets

51 | 5 days ago

He’s an elite 6th man, as a starter he’s limited in the NBA

largehearted | Celtics

14 | 5 days ago

I welcome somebody else saying it works differently on their team but I think he’s got a severe ceiling on offense. When he was on the Celtics for a half year (the bad part of our ‘22 season) the advanced stats were just egregious the whole time, even though he often had good scoring games. He just couldn’t mesh on that side of the ball in the way that Marcus Smart easily did without a 3pt shot.

I think you have to cede a lot of control to him on offense and neither side of his game makes that worthwhile in the NBA

scarywolverine | Pistons

18 | 5 days ago

It does make it worth it. Just as a 6th man. He was awesome for the Pistons last year in that role

Wavepops

11 | 5 days ago

he was good on the lakers, good on the pistons, really good at okc. i dont think its as simple as ceding control. Sometimes he just meshes with players better than others. i think had he stayed with the celtics as a 6th man he eventually wouldve got going. he struggled with the warriors too despite them desperately needed his skillset

chakrablocker | Thunder

4 | 5 days ago

he wouldn’t be an immediate upgrade to mike conley for instance?

xjoke4 | Nets

43 | 5 days ago

He was playing like a borderline all star for us before we had to trade him for winning us too many games this past season. Schroder can be as good as the FIBA version of himself in the right situation

RTruthsucks | Pistons

14 | 5 days ago

Losing him hurt so bad.

km912 | SAC

12 | 5 days ago

I didn’t watch today so just curious how you see Germany deploying him. I think the way kings fans forsee him being used is as a distributor/organizer to get the ball to our other playmakers/scorers in good spots, and for him to be like the 4th/5th scoring option on the floor.

AccomplishedRainbow1 | Suns

27 | 5 days ago

He does everything on offense. But in FIBA he has such control over the game, it’s incredible. Feels like he can setup whatever he wants, either for himself or his teammates.

oberg14

27 | 5 days ago

That’s because he’s still fast as hell against 99.99% of basketball players in the world. Problem is the NBA is filled with the 0.01% athletes that can keep him in front of them far more often

AccomplishedRainbow1 | Suns

11 | 5 days ago

Yeah, and he’s incredibly good at basketball. Kinda shows you how stacked the nba and basketball talent is, in general. On his best day Schroder can hang with the best of the best.

TreyAdell | Celtics

4 | 5 days ago

He’s a good player but we can’t extrapolate FIBA performance to NBA. In the NBA he’s a tiny guard with an inconsistent jumper. He is who he is, he’s had plenty of roles in the league and he’s performed pretty consistently across the board. Good player but he will never be the FIBA player in the NBA. He’s 31 it’s not like there’s a huge runway for a leap here. He shot under 40% from the field on 2 of the 3 teams he played for last year.

Zwackosilius

71 | 5 days ago

First finals at the Euros for Germany since 2005, when Dirk led them to a silver medal (lost 62:78 to Greece). Imagine what Dirk could do with this team.. But he laid the foundation for this German team and maybe this time they will win over Greece or will Turkey be the other finalist?

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

19 | 5 days ago

I would kill to still see Dirk play lol one of the best players to watch he helped get me into the game

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

11 | 5 days ago

And for what it’s worth I have doubts Germany can stop Türkiye or Greece as their big men will be very hard to overcome

Zwackosilius

5 | 5 days ago

It will be quite a challenge for Germany for sure, but not impossible. In last year’s Olympic games, the team beat Greece in the quarter finals

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

5 | 5 days ago

The difference here with Greece is they have better shooting at the guard position this time around. So if they hit their shots it’s gonna be tough

AnthonyTyrael | Mavericks

6 | 5 days ago

Dirk also faced most teams at their all time peak. Just like facing Lakers and Spurs franchises in the NBA. Beat Miami once and got beaten by the league and refs the other time.

Even Turkey was better on paper than it’s now and they might win it all this year. Spain, France, Turkey… Even Greece, Lithuania and many others, they were pretty good back then.

nutelamitbutter | Rockets

42 | 5 days ago

Bonga should be our MVP. His defense is ELITE

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

34 | 5 days ago

He was locking up Lauri. If I was an nba team I’d throw him a contract everyone needs 3&D wings

CT4_LV | Celtics

20 | 5 days ago

his shooting is still quite inconsistent, but his scoring has definitely developed a good bit. He came in a bit too raw in NBA, but he has developed his gane A LOT since coming back to Europe. I think he should get one more NBA look as his athletic profile was always up to level, but I think the questions about his scoring at the NBA level probably would scare teams away

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

9 | 5 days ago

See I wouldn’t worry about his scoring becuase he would just be the same role he plays for Germany as the 5th guy on a good team whose job is to guard and hit a few corner 3’s a game

Wavepops

2 | 5 days ago

that would mean hes 15 million dollar player at minimum, i dont think hes that good

eZreazy | Lakers

5 | 5 days ago

Not necessarily. I don’t think he means he’d be the 5th best player I think he means his role when on the floor would be as the last option on offense to space the floor. He can still come off the bench

Wavepops

2 | 5 days ago

if he meant what you are saying then sure i agree

thewrongnotes | Magic

4 | 5 days ago

Bonga could have a Yabusele effect for pretty much any team in the league

NitroXYZ | UTA

40 | 5 days ago

Been a Franz truther for a while now, but I really believe the Magic are primed now for a ECF berth.

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

9 | 5 days ago

It’ll be Magic - Knicks imo for the ECF

EightFortyDaysOf

-11 | 5 days ago

Hawks > Magic 😁

Playful_League_4070

7 | 5 days ago

I love Franz but he’s gonna have to shoot the 3 ball better in the league for them to have a chance. He looked good today but he’s been dared two playoffs in a row now he can’t be a liability from outside anymore

refreshing_yogurt

6 | 4 days ago

Every discussion of Franz seems to be about how he needs to improve his three but thus far compared to his co-star Paolo, he’s been the better rim finisher, scorer inside the arc, and decision maker with the ball. The lineups with Franz as the primary guy perform better than the ones with Paolo as the primary guy.

So it’s been kind of strange and seems disproportionate to me to see so many people put a burden on Franz to develop a complementary skillset. It seems like the Magic could be as good or better by prioritizing putting the ball in Franz’ hands and hoping Paolo becomes a better shooter/off ball player.

Wallstreettrappin | Kings

29 | 5 days ago

Dennis gonna take us to the promised land

Brilliant-Net-750

9 | 5 days ago

Fox who?

TenaciousDeer

5 | 5 days ago

Too many Dennises these days.

Cherry_Caliban

20 | 5 days ago

Schroder is criminally underrated

yeontura | Philippines

19 | 5 days ago

Dennis Schröder is the Patty Mills of Dirk Nowitzkis.

NathanFielderFriend | Canada

4 | 5 days ago

lol it’s funny how I know exactly what you mean

koalapanda8

16 | 5 days ago

Dennis Schroder is honestly under appreciated for how big he is for Germany

MrBuckBuck | Trail Blazers

17 | 5 days ago

Franz Wagner finished with 22 points, but only 2 points in the 2nd half, he went cold, finishing ⁶⁄₁₉ FG, ³⁄₈ 3PT, ⁷⁄₉ FT.

Edit: If Schroder (40% FG, 44% 3PT) and Wagner won’t shoot better in the finals, then Germany will lose.

Wagner needs to grow some balls, because he struggles in the 2nd half, and it isn’t the 1st time it is happening.

Edit2:

Lauri Markkanen finished with:

16 Points

⁶⁄₁₇ FG (35%)

⁴⁄₈ 2PT (50%)

²⁄₉ 3PT (22%)

²⁄₃ FT (67%)

8 Rebounds (3 Off. Rebs)

1 Assist (2 TOV)

+/- of -24 (worst in the game)

27:38 minutes played

Olivier Nkamhoua led with 21/9/3 on 75% FG, ²⁄₃ 3PT, ⁷⁄₇ FT

punctually-late | Finland

6 | 5 days ago

Yeahhh… Lauri was not very effective today. We really need an elite pg who can run the offense and set Markkanen up to maximize his skills

TonightAncient3547

1 | 4 days ago

I am not sure, but I think for some reason they count misses even when fouled. So Yes Schroeder misses some layups, but because fouls mostly. I am not sure if that is different in the NBA

AnthonyTyrael | Mavericks

0 | 5 days ago

He’s not often a player with a high FG%. Never has been but he’s still young, still developing as player.

theyoloGod | Tampa Bay Raptors

10 | 5 days ago

FIBA schroder has me thinking he’s a top 5 PG

No_Brilliant5888 | Raptors

6 | 5 days ago

Germany Schroder is a problem as the kids say

imminentjogger5 | Warriors

7 | 5 days ago

Warriors legend Dennis Schroder

Brilliant-Net-750

8 | 5 days ago

He’s a legend for half the league now lol

fph00 | Pelicans

1 | 4 days ago

The legend of the travelling guard.

Top-boy-og

4 | 5 days ago

Menance

birdentap | Nets

4 | 5 days ago

Nets legend Dennis Schroder *

EverybodyBuddy | Lakers

4 | 5 days ago

Schroder is so feast or famine.

I remember when he dropped a big old bagel for us against the Suns in a pivotal playoff game.

jonbemerkin | LAL

3 | 5 days ago

DS be hooping

SpicyP43905 | Raptors

-38 | 5 days ago

Just a couple more games and this will be done.

absurdlifex

0 | 5 days ago

Wtf?

Germany takes down Finland 96-86 to make it to the finals in EuroBasket behind Dennis Schroder’s 26 points, 12 assists and 5 rebounds