{"id":458366,"date":"2023-09-06T16:21:53","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:21:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=458366"},"modified":"2023-09-06T16:43:14","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:43:14","slug":"germany-survives-last-second-drama-to-reach-world-cup-semis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/germany-survives-last-second-drama-to-reach-world-cup-semis\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany survives last second drama to reach World Cup semis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>German basketball national team qualified for the semifinals of the men&#8217;s FIBA World Cup in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>In the third quarter-final match, the Germans prevailed over the debutant Latvia 81:79 (13:16, 23:18, 26:25, 19:20) and reached the final four for the first time since the world championship in 2002.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Germans could have missed out on qualifying for the next stage as Davis Bertans had an open shot from the three-pointer with seconds to go, but his shot from a distance bounced off the ring and missed the target.<\/p>\n<p>In the semi-finals, the German team, which is the only unbeaten team so far with six wins in six matches, will face the Olympic champion USA.<\/p>\n<p>Franz Wagner was the top scorer for Germany with 16 points. Andreas Obst added 13 more and Moritz Wagner finished with 12 points.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udcfa Germany end Latvia&#8217;s terrific World Cup run and advance to the Semi-Finals for the first time since 2002!<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FIBAWC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#FIBAWC<\/a> x <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinForDeutschland?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WinForDeutschland<\/a> \ud83c\udde9\ud83c\uddea <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3rwM6CaTDt\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3rwM6CaTDt<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 \ud83c\udfc6 (@FIBAWC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FIBAWC\/status\/1699389766079541349?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">September 6, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>German basketball national team qualified for the semifinals of the men&#8217;s FIBA World Cup in the Philippines, Japan and Indonesia. In the third [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":458372,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19062],"news_category":[16706,14084],"gn_keywords":[19063],"acf":{"announce":"Latvia had a clear three-point shoot, but the ball bounced off the ring","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458366"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":458374,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/458366\/revisions\/458374"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/458372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458366"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=458366"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=458366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}