The defeat against France broke everything for Dennis Schroder and Germany. The playmaker missed his match against Serbia, unlike Nikola Jokic, and the 2024 MVP and his teammates thus won the bronze medal. The “Mannschaft”, for its part, leaves France in the worst place: fourth…
It was also the last match for coach Gordon Herbert, who therefore cannot make it three after the medals won at Eurobasket 2022 (bronze) and then at the 2023 World Cup (gold). The end of a cycle then.
“I already said that I would play with the national team until I am 40”smiles Dennis Schroder. to reassure about his involvement. He is already thinking about the future, with Eurobasket 2025. “European basketball is no joke, it's very competitive with big teams like Greece, France, Spain, Slovenia. So there's a big competition ahead of us.”
“We showed that German basketball is one of the best in the world”
First, we will have to digest this failure, because the Germans had the weapons to obtain a medal. “We had two medals and we wanted to do even better this year, but sometimes in life you can't have everything. We'll have to work even better, harder and come back next summer to do something great again.”.
Germany's flag bearer for the 2024 Olympics is determined to bounce back with his group.
“Everyone only thinks about winning. We have big characters, intelligent and talented players,” comments Dennis Schroder, 31 in a month. “For the past three years, the coach has made me captain and that is the greatest honour possible. We have shown that German basketball is one of the best in the world.”
But with which coach for the next matches? “The federation will take care of it and we have already heard that something is being prepared. But we are not more informed”replies the German playmaker.
