Wagner’s Symphony

The Teutonic team came out determined to secure their passage and immediately hurt with triples, but the Northerners settled quickly in defense thanks to Luz and then with Hettsheimeir in attack, the second Brazilian unit did a good job with Meindl in the lead and the South Americans closed the first quarter with a 17-14 advantage.

But everything would change in the second period, the Europeans led by a remarkable income from the young Moritz Wagner started the quarter with a 12-4 run, leaving a northern defense that had made a great first quarter badly; the Germans’ income reached eleven, but Caboclo and Yago Santos appeared in time allowing the difference to go to rest to be only 36-34 for Germany.

Brazil continued to fight and press with Yago Santos in the complement, but lost clarity in attack and entered a tremendous drought, which fortunately for the Northerners was not able to take advantage of much Germany, since Rodl’s team barely found in Voigtmann and Wagner solutions to score . Brazil lost the humor with the refereeing and entered a dangerous psychological pothole, but between Varejao and GarcĂ­a they took care to keep it in the game, 52-46 behind at the end of the third.

The offense became a bit more fluid in the latter, Varejao on the one hand and Wagner on the other kept hurting and scoring, when it seemed that the German team was physically and collectively stronger than the Brazilian veterans; Huertas and Varejao brought Brazil closer together. But he did not give him the gasoline against a much younger, bigger and more rotating team, led by the exclusive figure of Wagner who broke it so that the Bavarians finally win 75-64. In this way Germany remains with the Olympic passage of the Split playoff and is the tenth classified in basketball at the Tokyo Olympics, in a very tough group and with almost an NBA quintet that did not participate in this event.