When during the final stretch Germany seemed to having stopped to move the ball and really play any team offense, while Serbia was rising from its ashes, again only four points behind, Johannes Voigtmann from the corner made the three that looked to be resolutive. He made another key play when the lead, with 55 seconds left, was three points down. Marko Guduric attempted the tying corner three. He missed. Voigtmann grabbed his rebound number eight of his terrific gold medal game. Germany became World Champions for the first time. Serbia was defeated.

Germany ended its World Cup undefeated, eight wins out of eight games played. It dodged Davis Bertans’ three to beat Latvia in the quarter-finals; in the semi-final it stood against the USA’s comeback and in the final game pushed Serbia down in the second half. Voigtmann played a game of extreme intensity, so much so that in the third period, the one in which Germany took control of the game, he never left the court. Coach Gordon Herbert changed his rotations trying to take ultimate control of the game right then. But with 90 seconds left in the period, he had to remove the great Dennis Schroder with three fouls. Those 90 seconds were the ones in which Maodo Lo was on the court in the second half. After playing a great first and second phase, Lo played less to leave minutes to the leader of this team, the MVP of the tournament.

Voigtmann in the final scored 12 points on 4/5 shots from the field, two 3-pointers, eight rebounds and three assists. He remained on the court for almost 28 minutes. In the tournament, he averaged 5.4 points, 6.3 rebounds, 3.0 assists per game, went 68.4 percent on twos, 40.0 percent from three-point range. Maodo Lo averaged 6.6 points per game, and was 43.8 percent on three-point shooting.