Basketball
- Men's Team Competition
- Preliminary Round (Group B)
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- Lost to Puerto Rico (74-81)
- Lost to Soviet Union (63-87)
- Defeated Philippines (93-74)
- Lost to Italy (57-68)
- Lost to Yugoslavia (56-81)
- Defeated Poland (67-65)
- Defeated Senegal (72-62)
- Classification Matches
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- 13th/16th place: Lost to Australia (69-70)
- 11th/12th place: Lost to Spain (83-84) → 12th place
- Team Roster
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- Karl Ampt
- Holger Geschwindner
- Dietrich Keller
- Hans-Jörg Krüger
- Dieter Kuprella
- Joachim Linnemann
- Rainer Pethran
- Joachim Pollex
- Norbert Thimm
- Helmut Uhlig
- Klaus Weinand
- Jürgen Wohlers
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Famous quotes containing the word basketball:
“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)