This game was bad from the very beginning for Dirk Nowitzki and Germany.
Turkey started the game on a 9-0 run that left the German crowd in Berlin pretty quite from the very beginning. So quite naturally, it took only a few minutes into the game to see Dirk in his pissed off form.
With a Turkey team led by Detroit Pistons forward Ersan Ilyasova, they found themselves leading Germany 31-11 at the end of the first quarter. Germany had small spurts where they cut the lead under 15, but could never get it under single digits until the last few minutes of the game.