Gold Favorite Serbia Has to Pack Its Bags Early at the European Basketball Championship. There is Dismay in the Home Country, and there are Different Opinions about the Reasons.
Weeping Serbian fans had to be comforted in the stands, while the superstars around Nikola Jokic Stared Blankly on the Court. Serbia, The Big Favorite for European Championship Gold, is out. Already in the Round of 16, Against The Clear Outsider Finland.
Accordingly, The Domestic Media Were frustrated afterwards. “Frightening Game, Frightening Result,” Headlined the Serbian Daily Newspaper Danas . “Shocking Collapse of Serbia!”, Wrote The Popular Newspaper Blic : “The Finns Destroyed Us, Jumped Over Us and Sent Us Home.”
Nikola Jokic and Co. Failed Early at the European Championship
And above all, this one questions Kept Circulating: Why?
Domestic Media Clear: “We Failed”
“The Way We Played, I Think Finland Deserved the Win. They Were MotiveCated From The First Minute. We Had Problems with our defense and gave them many easy Points,” Small Forward Ognjen Dobric Tried To Explain After The Game.
The Blic Journalists Saw It Simillarly. “You Don’t Need to Count Days Or Hours Or Minutes to Name A Reason Why We Failed,” It Said There: “Everyone was just talking, but nobody Did Anyding. The defense Should have been better, but there was simple a lacquer of aggression and energy.”
Lack of Attitude, then? The players saw it different. “First of All, I am Proud of Every of My Teamates. You know what we have bee through there is no excuse, but everyone gave as much as they could,” Emphasized Guard Aleksa Avramovic, Whose Statements Were Considered “and” Surprising “in the home Country: “We Leave with our heads hero high, we gave our maximum. You know what we have bees through in the last 72 hours.”
European Championship Top Favorite Plagued by Injuries
What the 30-Year-Old Meant: The Top Favorite Had to Struggle With Considerable Injury Concerns. Avramovic Himelf Went Into the Game Injured, Captain Bogdan Bogdanovic, ProBably The Most Important Anfer Afters Sufter Jokic, what Already Injured in the First Game, which was equivalent to the European Championship Exit. In Addition, The Injured NBA Professional Tristan Vukcevic Had to Pass Again Against Finland.
Brutal injury MISFORTUNE TON, But Serbia’s Squad Could Still have compensated for it – or even should have?
“We Played Pretty The Whole Time. It’s True That Bogdan Was Missing, But the Absence of One Player Can’t Change Everything,” Scolded Serbian Ex-Basketball Professional Vlade Durovic, Who Works as a TV Expert: ” Came back with medal and i stand by that.