OKC gets away with a blue eye
Schröder shines as a comeback director – and loses
Schröder shines as a comeback director – and loses
03.04.2025, 07:03 a.m.
The Oklahoma City Thunder have the duel with the pistons under control for a long time, then Dennis Schröder leads a comeback. In the end, however, another German is happy. After his gala against Minnesota, Nikola Jokić lacks his Denver Nuggets – they lose prompt.
Basketball national team captain Dennis Schröder has just missed the early move into the NBA play-offs with his Detroit Pistons. Without the I Isaiah Stewart, Marcus Sasser and Ron Holland II closed after the sensational brawl against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Schröder had to admit defeat in the German duel with Isaiah Hartenstein and Oklahoma City Thunder 103: 119. The world champion brought the pistons up to four points in the final quarter after a large gap. But then the league leader of the Western Conference pulled away again.
With a win, Detroit would have moved back into the play-offs for the first time since 2019, but the team from the “Motor City” still has six main rounds. Schröder was the longest of all players on the floor in the starting line -up and with a total of 39 minutes, the Point Guard came up to 15 points, seven assists and four rebounds. Hartenstein celebrated the eleventh win one after the other with OKC. From the bank, the 26-year-old contributed five points, six assists and eight rebounds to success. Oklahoma remains the best team in the NBA with 64:12 victories. Detroit is fifth in the east after two defeats in a row.
After his gala performance with 61 points against Minnesota on Wednesday, MVP Nikola Jokić was missing his Denver Nuggets. The Serb, which played for 53 minutes and had scored the third triple double with 60 or more points in the NBA story, exposed to ankle problems. Without the top star, the Nuggets lost 106: 113 at the San Antonio Spurs.
Thanks to Anthony Davis, the Dallas Mavericks won an important victory in the fight for the qualification for the Play-in tournament. The star player scored the decisive two points 3.4 seconds before the end at 120: 118 against the Atlanta Hawks – despite a cut over the right eye, which he had contracted at the end of the first quarter.
