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I'm Dave DeFore here with Keith Parrish for your final FIBA World Cup update.

And Keith, we have winners. we have a gold medal winning Germany squad

defeating the silver medal Serbia squad 8377 thanks to Dennis Schrooter who was named

Viva World Cup MVP how about that an MVP do you think the Toronto Raptors knew this summer they were signing a World Cup MVP. How about that? An MVP. Do you think the Toronto Raptors knew this summer? They were signing a World Cup MVP?

I don't think so. He had an amazing tournament. And, you know, and this wasn't, this wasn't

his best game. He did it. He had 28 points in this game, but it wasn't his best game all

tournament. But just a big problem in Fiba play with how fast he is and how he's able to score at so many

different levels.

This Germany team, you know, they beat Team USA.

This is not like some sort of a fluke.

They've been good the entire tournament.

They ran the table. They did. Undefeated in every game. They basically blew everybody out. And then it was a close game against Team USA, which we'll talk about in a second. And this game, like once again, I think in the third quarter, like they just started just extending their lead, like the ball movement, the chemistry, work together i know i feel like a lot of um team usa fans a common excuse is like oh we don't get a

play together we don't have like the locked in like um just cohesion and i don't know if that's a fair

assessment like i heard the announcers talking about them as they were playing Canada it's like

Canada just threw the squad together too or whatever but you see Germany Germany, I don't know what it is. Maybe it is just the perfect just lineups they have where they all know each other, where they know who the shooters are. They know shooters are going to break his man down every time. And like you did see some of that. You saw like them swinging the ball and move Wagner inside and like he was just doing stuff. and like the addition of franz vagner like this they have NBA talent like yeah they have like

four or five NBA guys maybe six if you want to say bonga right right they do have making big shots yeah

yeah they do have NBA level talent they don't have any stars NBA stars you know and maybe that's

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