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Do the weakened American squad stands a chance against more experienced European rosters (with all the eyes on Serbia)? Share your opinion!

I think the most crucial question is: How well can Serbia defend USA's small ball?

Can Bjelica as a 4 or Serbian role players like Simonovic/Lucic cope with USA forwards? I don't really know.
Will the absences of Kalinic and Milosavljevic hurt Serbia in that regard? I think, it will. I never understood why they did cut Kalinic in the first place. It would be nice if a Serbian friend can enlighten us.

What are your hopes about tournament?

Other than that, as a Turkish fan I'm pissed about the drawing procedure. They arranged the pots in an incredibly silly way (I really don't think China's easy group is a coincidence) and Turkey was in the same group with USA even before the drawing started.

And now with the new format (which gives us nothing but more blowouts), you only got two tickets to QF out of two groups. One is absolutely USA and the other is probably going to be Greece. Only five games and we're out.

We probably wasn't gonna make it to QF anyway but I just don't like how it happened. Just feels like FIBA can do nothing right.

It would be nice if a Serbian friend can enlighten us.

No one knows for sure but general opinion is that reasons for his cutting are his ''home video'' and speaking about politics related to Kosovo and Serbia in one of his interviews given to Turkish media i think.

Except him few great players missing, including Milosavljević, Teodosić and Nedović..

Being grouped with Serbia and Italy (also Angola), I don't expect the Philippines to advance any further but this will be a fun experience for our players.

Im in, lets go 🤟

Oh that is just great, the best chance we might have had to win the World Cup ever and our best player decides to pussy out again. You're dead to me, Ben.

Now please excuse me while I go bang my head against a wall to wipe away the thoughts of what could've been.

Last edited by Jay (OTT) at 08/31/2019 01:56:05

I see this is going to be a travelling competition WC...

What a game between Iran and Puerto Rico, still can't believe what I just saw in the last quarter :o

Last edited by Гокси at 08/31/2019 06:35:31

Only seen Poland - Venezuela (our national TV decided that basketball fans doesn't need any Serbia or France games if we're in the weakest group of tournament, therefore we should have more games of our direct opponents). We've played better than expected - of course, we could hit more simple throws, but generally speaking I like how we worked our shots and prevented the rivals from doing the same.

Last edited by Siwy at 08/31/2019 11:22:44