Germany Find A Way

Less than 24 hours after their inexplicable loss to Greece last night, Slovenia had a sense of deja-vu. Facing Germany in the 5-8 classification games Slovenia lost 69-65 after a big comeback by their opponent in the last minutes.

It wasn't as bad as last night, but once again Slovenia managed to lose a big lead in the

last minutes. Oddly the fourth quarter score from last night, 23-11 against Slovenia, was the exact score of today's last quarter.

"We were really disappointed after not playing so great in the last couple of days," said Germany's Demond Greene who had 16 points. "We didn't reach our main goal here which was a medal, but at least we got the ticket to the pre-Olympic tournament."

Slovenia played the last game last night and was six seconds short of a historical performance in the semi-finals over favourites Greece, but seemed to have recovered just fine, until the last minutes.

Germany on the other hand had one more day to rest and lost by a big margin to Spain in the quarters, so their mental readiness seemed better, and they stepped up in the last minutes.

Germany deleted a 60-51 Slovenian lead in the last 5:16 behind an 18-5 run led by Dirk Nowitzki who made 10 of his team's last 12 points and finished the game with 28 points and 10 rebounds.

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source : eurobasket2007.org