Valuable brilliant performance from Dennis Schröder, sustained highs from Franz Wagner: The two German basketball world champions helped their NBA teams to away victories as the best throwers on Tuesday night. Schröder led the Brooklyn Nets to a comeback victory with a 128:120 win over the Golden State Warriors, Wagner also won the ninth game out of the last ten games with the Orlando Magic with a 95:84 win over the Charlotte Hornets. Isaiah Hartenstein also impressed again for the Oklahoma City Thunder.
Against Steph Curry and Co., national team captain Schröder, who had recently missed the away win at the Sacramento Kings due to problems with his right ankle, was the decisive man. After the Warriors had temporarily taken the lead with 18 points, the Braunschweiger turned up the heat in the final quarter and played a big part in the success with 17 of his 31 points in the end. Schröder has only scored more points in a game once this season (33 points in October against the Memphis Grizzlies). The Nets, who are experiencing an up-and-down season, celebrated their second win in a row for the second time of the season.
World champion Wagner, who has already performed excellently in recent games, contributed 21 points, one rebound and seven assists to Orlando’s success. Brother Moritz Wagner showed a solid performance with 16 points as the third-best Magic scorer, as did German rookie Tristan da Silva (nine points). Orlando ranks third in the Eastern Conference.
Franz Wagner in particular is currently in top form. In the most recent victories, the national player always scored at least 20 points. The recent highlight was his 37-point gala at the Los Angeles Lakers the previous week, when he secured the away win with a three-pointer shortly before the end.
Hartenstein set another highlight from a German perspective with another double-double. The center recorded 17 points and ten rebounds in Oklahoma’s 130:109 win over the Sacramento Kings, showing in just his second game of the season once again how valuable he could be in the race for the NBA championship. In his debut for OKC last week, the German-American, who signed a mega contract with Oklahoma in the summer but missed the start of the season due to a broken hand, showed a strong performance with 13 points and 14 rebounds.
Maximilian Kleber and the Dallas Mavericks were also able to celebrate success. The German forward scored seven points off the bench in the 129:119 win at Atlanta Hawks. For Daniel Theis and the New Orleans Pelicans, however, the negative series continued; the 110:114 at the Indiana Pacers was already the eleventh defeat from the last twelve games. Theis got eight points.
