New Sacramento Kings point guard Dennis Schroder helped Germany defeat Turkey 88-83 in the EuroBasket championship Sunday.
Schroder, who also earned the EuroBasket MVP, scored the final six points for Germany down the stretch.
With 1:18 left in the fourth quarter and Germany down by 1, Schroder blew by his defender and floated a soft layup over the outreached arm of the defender at the basket; the ball hit high off the backboard and in. With 19 seconds left and Germany up by one, Shroder hit a foul-line jumper to push the Germany lead to 86-83. On the next play on defense, Schroder boxed out a larger opponent to grab the rebound off a missed shot by Turkey. He would then hit two free throws to put Germany up 88-83 to seal the victory.
This final sequence begins at 2:19 in this video:
Schroder finished with 16 points, 12 assists and 3 rebounds in 34 minutes. This was Germany’s first EuroBasket championship since 1993.
In 2023, Schroder was part of the Germany team that won the FIBA World Cup, and he also won that tournament MVP.
Clearly, this all means Schroder is about to win the NBA title and be named the NBA Finals MVP.
Joking aside, congrats to Germany and nice work Dennis. Looking forward to seeing what you can do in Sacramento.
I can understand why folks may get excited about Schröder with his performance in Eurobasket, but I’m still gonna pump the brakes. I’m going to base my expectations of him on his career body of work in the NBA and not an overseas tournament in which Willy Hernangomez was the last MVP.
Before folks may say I’m a pessimist. Dennis shared the court with Franz Wagner. Would any of us decline a trade of Dennis Schröder for Franz Wagner even thought Dennis is the Euoleague MVP?
That all being said, congrats to Dennis on this accomplishment! I’d love for you take that momentum and leadership into the NBA season. Go Kings!
I can’t understand why folks either
I agree, he’s a great performer at the international level…but just way more talent in the NBA. Like 50% of the league is at or near the same category of player as Schroder & Wagner.
Scott Perry gets a nod today. Tomorrow’s Monday message will be even more positive.
Given the options at PG available – we can argue contract – this looks to be more of a positive than negative.
The caveat as Adamsite points out – Eurobasket is over, the NBA season is a different challenge
Glückwunsch (Congratulations) to DSchröder for the Gold Medal win for Germany and MVP honors.
Why is this a positive signing? Especially in the bigger picture, the mid to long term view?
Even if Schroder will have a good season?
What is the plan, the vision regarding this team? And to what level will he likely elevate this team?
And we most definitely should argue contract.
What level of performance for DtM (Dennis the Menace) individually, and the Kings collectively would qualify as positive in your eyes?
How do you feel about avoiding my questions with a counterquestion?
Your counterquestion is not relevant, because it avoids the long term view I was specifically referring to. Dennis is an older player on an older team with very few ways to get significantly better, so I’d rather they implode and start an actual rebuild.
With that in mind, and looking solely at this season?
Ideally, they need to avoid the play-in, and play a competitive first round playoff round. Dennis will have to be a significant (top 4 contributor to such a team).
But then what in the next season? They’ll likely lose Keon, and Dennis, Sabonis, LaVine and DDR will all be over 30.
Dennis is a placeholder, and grossly overpaid for that role.
Nice
arenaFIBA trophy, though.Have you been talking to Ms. UtQ? (oh geez, I did it again!) She’ll accuse me of going to my New York roots by answering a question with a question. I do that a lot, don’t I?. Apologies.
DSchröder as a long term solution is my understanding of much of your consternation and question. Well, just so happens, today is the Birthday of the same EuroBasket MVP. Happy 32nd Dennis Schröder!
At 32 years old, even a 32 year old LeBron (LBJ turns 41 on Dec 30 2025) is not a great way to build a future. I think we can agree that this puts Kings #17 (same number he wore in EuroBasket for Deutschland, as well as ATL, DET, LAL, HOU, BRK, TOR, OKC. He wore #71 for GSW and BOS. He was the 17th pick for ATL in the 2013 NBA draft) at the tail of his peak at the most optimistic, or the end of his career at the pessimistic.
The Kings have an old team. I would guess the upcoming season’s most mature. The Sacramento Seniles.
And reviewing my jersey number jibberjabber – Sacramento will be the Tenth (10 count’em 10) NBA team for the 6’1″ Braunschweig product.
That does not speak positively towards how one meshes to a squad if one/third of the Association has had him on the roster and felt that they had enough.
So, why oh why, could I see this as a positive more than a negative?
Because it is September, the pre-season/training camp opens in about two weeks and the guy, for all of the blather above, just won an MVP award. Silver linings, my friend. I am ignoring the tarnish for now but I know it is there. Hope for the best, expect the worst (Mel Brooks is 99! That made me smile)
I would strongly argue the contract is a HUGE negative
Second place in Summer league, first place in a random Euro tournament. Things are looking awesome for this season.
I think we may have already peaked.
“a random Euro tournament” seems a little disrespectful. It was the European Championship
Okschroderfest!
Gesundheit!
In true Kings fandom fashion, we should say “just wait til the season starts! Everybody is in the best shape of their career!”
But then, FIBA Bogi was a force to reckon with, yet here we are.
Congrats to the German team and Schröder.
It was quite a good tournament.
Far less timeouts and superstar calls by the refs, passionate fans in the arena. FIBA basketball is still sports, NBA basketball has almost completely morphed into a commercial product.
Yeah, would that NBA ge back to some more intense “old school” B Ball.
The NBA’s best were well represented in Eurobasket with Jokic, Giannis and Luka along with Sengun, Wagner, and yes, Schröder (get used to alt+0246 for that ö) among others I am leaving out, and the sundry “lesser” NBA guys (Furkan Korkmaz, for example) and it was nice to see Tristan da Silva (Kings have Devin Carter) have a game in the Final.
Overall, to me, this was a nice amuse bouche in September as we see October soon approaching.
I left this off: Deni Avdija was 2nd Team All-Star for the tournament (also 2nd team: Nikola Jokic, Lauri Markkanen, Cedi Osman, John Loyd (from Poland, surprised it’s not Loydowski?). Pretty good company.
A commercial product that doesn’t care about wins and losses. Mark Cuban: “Teams make more money when they have a low payroll and lose.”
It proves that Schroder is a very good point guard and will improve the Kings to some degree . What degree, is still the question as is his age ,contract length and team direction . Maybe 82 games will provide the answers .
Schroder for one year maybe two then wha? If this year we could trade Monk to the Magic for Anthony Black and either Jett Howard or Tristan de Silva then IMO Black would back up Schroder then become the Kings starting point guard for quite some time. He has the tools and with a year or two(you have to play him) then he will be ready to start My hope is in 2 years things will look better with DDR and LaVine gone and a younger core ready to play Doug’s brand of ball but you have to start now not next year. I love Sabonis but IMO we aren’t going any further with him. IMO trade him when you can get some good things back in young players and draft picks. I personally think a trade with the Pistons is a place to start.
So today is the last day to sign free agents that can then be trade at the unofficial start of the trade season (December15th). Anyone signed after today has to wait 3 months before they are trade eligible. There were a flury of last minute signings and small trades toady. The Kings so far have been silent.
The Kings currently are just one of 6 teams that have an open roster spot and all they have to backup of Sabonis and Keegan are Eubanks (finished with the Clips last season averaging 7 MPG), and Maxime (2nd round pick rookie), Saric (played in 16 games last season…while healthy), and Isaac Jones (fresh off a 2-way deal). That’s it. That’s the front court depth.
Camp opens with media day in 2 weeks.
They must have too much confidence in Isaac after his SL performance.
Go with another Eurobasket champ and sign Isaac Bonga to back up or pair with Murray at the 3/4. The knock on him when he was in NBA was that he could not shoot. In the Eurobasket, he shot well. In his most recent Euroleague season with Partizan, Bonga hit 42 of 102 3PAs over 30 games.
He’s committed to a Euroleague team and won’t come back to the NBA until 2026.
Isaac Bonga Can’t Return To NBA This Season
Oh dang, I just realized that we’re halfway through the month and there’s no 30Q’s. 😮
It appears the sticking point on Kuminga to the Kings is the protection on the Kings 2030 first.
I don’t know, but Monk plus an unprotected 2030 first seems like a lateral move at best (although I go back and forth on it).
Per Amick, the Warriors want to maintain flexibility for 2027 free agency, when Giannis and Jokic are anticipated to be UFA.
So wouldn’t it make more sense (for both the Warriors and Kings), if instead of Monk we are trading DeRozan?
DDR plus unprotected first for Kuminga sounds like it accomplishes the goals of both teams. The Warriors seem to have a glut of guards also.
If we even expand this trade I’m thinking DDR, Carter, unprotected 2026, plus lightly protected 2030… for Kuminga and Moody… to me that seems even better. We’re likely in purgatory for this year at least, so that pick will probably be in the teens.
Sucks to give up first round picks, but might be the only way to fix this roster. And Kuminga and Moody are both young and will be in their prime along with Keegan, Clifford and Ellis in 2030.
Shroder/Monk/Ellis
Lavine/Ellis/Moody
Murray/Moody/Clifford
Kuminga/Murray/Saric
Sabonis/Jones/Raynaud
Maybe sign another backup big with open roster spot (Mo Bamba?)
There is no proof that Kuminga is a good NBA player, Moody is a league average role player. The Warriors through indifferent roster management have got themselves into a bit of a predicament.
There is no way on gods green earth the Kings of all teams should be giving other teams first round picks for unproven talent with questionable attitudes
Would I be interested in both of these players on this team sure, but not at that price, The Warriors screwed up lets not bail them out
Fun fact: Kuminga and Moody are roughly the same age as Nique Clifford and Raynaud. I think Kuminga has the ability to be an all-star level player, and Moody is like Keon Ellis but with more length. So maybe a difference of opinion on how good these guys are, I get it.
But the counterpoint being in that proposed trade an added bonus would be keeping Monk (an elite 6th man), and shedding the poor fit of Derozan. I’d love to be free of Lavine too, but don’t see how that’s possible right now).
The 2026 pick will likely be in the teens. If we picked a Kuminga or Moody level player in the draft next year, we’d all be pretty happy i think. Yes the salary is a factor in comparing a middle 1st rd draft pick to a known player, but that’s the risk involved. We could miss out on a Haliburton! But how likely is that?
The 2030 pick could be top 4 or 5 protected, and to me that’s the biggest asset being given up in this trade. But you can’t get something for nothing.
I know it’s not likely to happen. Just think this team needs to dump some ill-fitting pieces on this roster, and at the same time if they can add solid young players to grow along with the few pieces they have in Keegan and Keon, it’s the only way I see outside of total rebuild (my preferred option) that we’ll be relevant in the next decade at least.
I like the idea of Kuminga at a price, I think these are the moves this front office should be making.
Having said that Kuminga could be a lot of things. Could be an all star, he also could be in Europe or out of the league as he could not ever figure it out.
I think the Kings should be very conservative in any offers for him
Who knows what the T Wolves will be in 2030, it would be in my opinion malpractice to give that pick up for Kuminga. Like in the Harrison Barnes deal I don’t think that pick swap will age well
After the Fox deal there was all this talk of the draft picks the team got, if they are going to blow them on getting rid of crap contracts and high risk trade deals, its back to the circular firing squad that this organization has always become
On a related note If teams are trying to make room for 2027 why can’t the Kings front office look at that as an opportunity to get talent for this roster, in players or picks etc, I don’t think Jokic or Giannis are coming here, like the Thunder you they need to acquire as much in picks and promising players as they can and not sign the Saric’s and Dougie McBucket’s of the world
I don’t believe there is any way financially possible to include DDR in any trade for Kuminga unless you are including other teams to eat DDR’s deal. For whatever contract Kuminga agrees to (i’m guessing somewhere in the $20M-$30M per year range) the Dubs can only take have of that back in salary. So let’s say Kuminga agrees to a base salary of $24M per year (Giddey range), the Dubs can only take back $12M in salary. DDR makes $24.7M this upcoming season.
DDR and Carter would combine for nearly $30M going to the Dubs, so they would need to send out a lot more money to take them in. A 3rd, or even 4th team, would almost assuredly need to be involved.
This is why the Carter, Saric and draft capital was the starting offer. The two of them combine to make $10M, which would put a Kuminga annual salary at around $20M per year. This also doesn’t take into consideration that the Kings are just $5.6M below the tax. The can’t even afford to take on the additional $10M that would be required for Kuminga.
I still stand by my prediction that DDR will be shipped out for Kuzma and change (Tyler Smith?). Bucks need his scoring ability next to Giannis and the Kings need length and size. The Bucks are really the only team that I can see having a need for DDR’s skillset, unless shit goes sideways for the Clippers and Kawhi is out.
That is interesting, but i wonder why then that the original trade of Monk plus a 1st (reported by Amick and others) was floated in the first place? Doesn’t Monk make slightly more than Derozan?
Oh Monk makes around $18m this year, with DDR around 24m…
But still Monk is more than half of what JK would theoretically cost, so I’m not understanding how the trade reported by Amick and others would be allowed (Monk + 1st for JK) under those rules you stated.
Sam Amick was on 1140 this very morning and said several teams of which the Warriors are one are saving money for the season after next 2027 as Jokic and Giannis will be free agents and as such they don’t want money on their books that will take up cap room
Yes that fact was part of my original post where I was advocating for trying to include Demar to the Dubs instead of Monk.
Demar will be off the books fully before 2027 offseason. Only partially guaranteed after this season.
I don’t know either. Maybe the Dubs would move someone else, or even ship Monk to a 3rd team? It would sort of be like how Spurs took on Barnes to help facilitate the DDR S&T to the Kings. Perhaps Monk would be enough of an asset for a 3rd team to kick additional draft capital and a much smaller contract to the Dubs?
Just a butt-pulled example, the Nets currently have like 36 guys under contract. They could take Monk’s contract and ship 2 or more smaller deals to the Dubs, who are in need of live bodies
Would love to hear what Coach Christie thinks of the current team and how they can compete. Tired of speculation.
Doug will not say what he thinks for fear of losing his job. He will say what the F.O. wants him to speak.
The sound you hear is of nobody caring
This signing will make no real difference its an over pay for a PG in his 30s who has been on half the teams in the league
This team makes consistently poor decisions why should I believe that this move will shift the needle in meaningfully positive way
Its great that his team won, but I’m doubtful that this will mean anything for this season
Today’s Did you Know?
Your comment had me thinking (always dangerous); wearing Kings purple, Dennis Schröder will be joining his tenth team in the 30 team NBA, and though it seems it has been half of the teams, he has played for only one third of the teams.
The NBA player who has played for the most teams?
That would be Ish Smith, who has donned 13 uniforms in his NBA journey. Five others have played for a dozen teams (12).
Ish Smith: 13 teamsChucky Brown: 12 teamsJim Jackson: 12 teamsTony Massenburg: 12 teamsJoe Smith: 12 teamsGarrett Temple: 12 teamsJim Jackson was a very good King almost 25 seasons ago (2002-03), and Garrett Temple was beloved by us fans as well (2009-2010, then 2016-2018). Tony Massenburg (2003-05) closed his NBA career in Sacramento close to 20 years ago, and Chucky Brown likewise culminated his career in Sac during the 2001-02 campaign.
But neither Smith (not Ish, nor Joe) were ever Kings. Sacramento prefers Jones, I suppose (at one time it was Colby, Mason and Isaac, though now only Isaac remains).
and Bill Jones, the trainer
I am honestly suprised we havent signed Ish Smith yet.
Oh…there is time to make that call.
We need MOAR guards!
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