History repeated itself for Serbia.
In 2014, the Eagles fell prey to the USA to accept silver throughout that 12 months’s FIBA World Cup version in Spain regardless of stellar outings from Milos Teodosic, Nikola Kalinic, and Bogdan Bogdanovic.
Almost 10 years later, they met the identical destiny because the gold medal remained elusive for Serbia, falling to unbeaten Germany within the 2023 version in Manila.
Still, the European bets are nonetheless happy with their run.
“I’ll be happy to get the gold as well to finish the tournament with a win. But, unfortunately, sometimes luck is not on your side, you miss some shots, you miss some of the opportunities but that’s the game of basketball, that’s how it works,” mentioned Bogdanovic shortly after their 83-77 loss in entrance of a packed Mall of Asia Arena.
Now, Serbia will head again house with out gold, however with pleasure and starvation to get higher for his or her subsequent massive event: the 2024 Paris Olympics.
“Our heads are already up and our next goal is to go on to the Olympics games and to make better success than this,” added Aleksa Avramovic, who led them with 21 factors.
Serbia, together with Germany, Canada, and USA, is among the many groups that earned qualification to subsequent 12 months’s Summer Games.
—JMB, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
