Riga, Latvia – The focus for Germany has switched to a meeting with Slovenia in the Quarterfinals of EuroBasket 2025 .

Ahead of the next challenge, Johannes Thiemann pointed to a necessary team effort in containing superstar Luka Doncic in Xiaomi Arena on Wednesday.

“Luka is an amazing player. He’s so talented, so it’s going to be tough against him, but on the other side it’s it’s a team sport. We all have to make a collective group effort to defend them, to lock him down, to get our best defense against Slovenia. Overall, they’re a good team, but I’m confident that we were able to control them to a certain extent,” said the 31-year-old big.

In the Round of 16, Doncic dropped 42 points to lift his country over Italy .

“You can’t stop them, of course, you can only contain,” expl

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