Make this 3 games in a row that Dirk Nowitzki and Germany has lost in EuroBasket 2015.
Coming into the game, Germany and Italy was both sitting at 1-2 with the danger of falling to 1-3, thus facing a must-win game in their last matchup on Thursday.
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Germany found themselves playing one of their better games standing at a 10 point lead in the third quarter. I, along with the German crowd, thought this is where Germany would pull away but Danilo Gallinari had other plans. Under the leadership of Gallinari, Marco Belinelli, and Andrea Bargnani, Italy forced themselves into a tied ball game in the last few minutes of the fourth.