Chao News client reporter Cao Linbo
In a semifinal match for the Men's Basketball World Cup, which ended on September 8, Serbia defeated Canada 95-86 to advance to the final.
According to FIBA official information, this is the second time that Serbia has reached the men's basketball World Cup final in 9 years, the last time was in the 2014 Men's Basketball World Cup. In the 2014 Men's Basketball World Cup, Serbia lost to the United States and missed out on the championship.
Serbia was not generally optimistic before the tournament, feeling that they should not go as far as the championship and runner-up final in this World Cup.
Because as a European powerhouse, although Serbia has the strength to compete with the American Dream Team, and has reached the semifinals of four consecutive World Cups, so far, Serbia has no record of winning the championship in international competitions.
In the last Men's Basketball World Cup, Dan Jordjevic, who dared to put Jokic on the bench, led the team to a quarterfinal defeat to Italy and stopped in the quarterfinals. Serbia has not achieved much in the past four years since Giordević's stamp, especially at last year's European Championships, when Serbia, with Jokic and Bogdan, upset Italy in the quarterfinals.
Before this World Cup, although Serbia has a number of stars who play in the NBA, they have all hung up the exemption card.
Jokic helped the Denver Nuggets lift the first championship trophy in team history, and with his average of 30.2 points, 14 rebounds and 7.2 assists per game, he was unanimously voted the Finals MVP. But Jokic said he was mentally and physically unprepared for the World Cup, and ultimately chose not to play for Serbia in this summer's basketball World Cup.
In addition to Jokic, Serbia's main scorer Mišic also chose not to play in this World Cup for local teams because he needed to prepare for his NBA debut with the Oklahoma City City Thunder in the summer.
Serbia's two main strikers Lušić and Kalinic have also announced that they will miss the World Cup, and Thunder forward Pokuszewski, who was originally included in the team's 20-man roster, will not be able to play in this year's World Cup because he did not have the permission of the team's doctor.
There is even a player Simanić who had no choice but to remove a kidney because he was elbowed by South Sudanese player Omot in the group stage match between Serbia and South Sudan.
Although almost lost a set of starting lineups, many of them are still NBA stars, but in this World Cup, in addition to the second stage of the group stage 16 to 8 game, suffered the Italian men's basketball team's big reversal, and finally lost 76-78, Serbia has always maintained a strong competitiveness on the road to the championship and runner-up finals, facing any opponent can give heavy punches, completely invisible to the impact of the lack of major generals.
Of course, there is a key role in the team's star Bogdanovic, who burst with amazing energy in this tournament and became a super thigh in the knockout round. Bogdanovic is only the second in charge of the NBA Hawks, but in the FIBA arena, he completely played the domineering of a top star, shooting outside and inside a shield, no one can stop him, this momentum is also infected the Serbian team.
After a few games, Serbia's basketball is still strong in their whole, it can be said that Serbia should be the goal of Jorjevic leading the Chinese men's basketball team to learn, and the ideal formation envisaged by Qiao Shuai. After the lineup is high, almost every position can shoot, and the defensive end is full of aggression, and their players' skills and teamwork when attacking, as well as tacit cooperation when defending, are impressive, and they have shown strict planning and execution in almost every attack and defense, which are based on solid basic skills and resolute and efficient tactical execution.
In addition, the strength of the Serbian team is not only technical, but also mentality and spirit, whether leading or behind, they always keep working the field, regardless of big and small cards, always dedicated.
It can be said that these characteristics of the Serbian men's basketball team happen to be the direction that the Chinese men's basketball team urgently needs to improve, in fact, it can be used as a model for the development of the Chinese men's basketball team, and it can be studied well.
Serbia has always maintained a very strong basketball heritage, and the country has produced many world-class stars, such as Dragan Petrovic, Vasily Mishanović, Nicola Jokic, etc., which have won countless honors for the country and laid a solid foundation for Serbian basketball.
The Serbian men's basketball team has the unique temperament of the Balkans, and the iron-blooded combat effectiveness and delicate technology complement each other. In the development of international basketball in the past decade, they have appeared on the podium of the World Cup and the Olympic Games several times, becoming a force to be reckoned with.
With solid basic skills and tacit teamwork, the success of the Serbian men's basketball team is not only a victory for individual players, but also a victory for the entire national basketball system.
It just so happened that before the World Cup, the Zhejiang Chouzhou Golden Rental Men's Basketball Team conducted a training camp in Serbia for about a month, which can be regarded as a close contact with Serbian basketball.
During the training period, the team from August 19 to September 6, and the Serbian secondary league team played 6 warm-up games, 3 wins and 3 losses, the victory and loss in half, because Liu Zeyi and Lu Wenbo are not in the team, Wu Qian is still adjusting, Cheng Shuaipeng, Yu Jiahao have just returned from the national training team, so the team basically uses a 1.5 team lineup plus a few small players to play with each other, it can be said that there are back and forth, so in fact, their domestic league level is not unattainable.
Serbia's top teams, including the familiar Red Star Belgrade, have always participated in the ABA league in which teams from other European countries participate, and from the top KLS league in the country, the sub-B league, the economic situation and overall level will fall.
This is also consistent with the flow of top talents in Serbian basketball, because the income of the domestic league is very low, and good players have gone abroad to develop into leagues in other countries, and even many youth training in Europe have Serbian grassroots coaches working. This allows Serbian basketball to continue to produce world-class basketball players on a not very solid economic foundation.
In addition, team personnel and reporters told a story about buying a washing machine, in order to facilitate the players to wash clothes, the team wanted to buy a few washing and drying equipment in the local area, went to the local store, although there is a stock, but the delivery can not be carried out immediately, the fastest also takes three days, and the local salesman in accordance with the regulations operation is very rigid, the former salesman is off work, the latter salesman will not directly take over the order, but to communicate everything from scratch, what to add money and urgent, what to deliver by themselves, all can not be operated. "They're like a fixing part on a whole machine, or a fixing screw, and they're running in this machine, and if the machine is working properly, they won't come up with anything more efficient."
This "parts" concept is embodied in the basketball court, that is, as long as there are good coaches to guide and organize, the system can keep them to the peak of the world basketball.
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