The Paris Olympics competition continues, the men's basketball group C ushered in two key battles, the United States men's basketball team faced South Sudan with only 1 point in the warm-up game, Serbia lost to the United States men's basketball team in the first game, welcomed the second opponent Puerto Rico, and finally United States and Serbia both won big victories, the United States men's basketball team with two consecutive wins advanced to the top eight, becoming the fourth team to advance to the quarterfinals after Canada, Germany and France, and Serbia won 41 points to sweep away the haze of the first fiasco, The men's basketball quarterfinals have also entered a white-hot stage.
The Serbia men's basketball team won by 41 points to create the largest winning margin in team history, and on the same day, the Serbia women's basketball team won the women's basketball game by 22 points, also creating the largest winning margin in team history.
Among them, Jokic was undoubtedly the biggest contributor to Serbia's victory, and due to the early one-sided game, Jokic played only 23 minutes in the game.
He shot 5-of-7 from the field and 4-of-5 from the free-throw line, and had a quasi-triple-double of 14 points, 15 rebounds and 9 assists, just one assist away from the fourth triple-double in Olympic history.
Compared with the NBA, which has an extremely fast pace of offense and defense, the international arena places more emphasis on defense, with a relatively slow pace and higher data content.
Only three people in the entire history of the Olympics have recorded a triple-double: Alexander Belov (Montreal 1976, 23 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists), James (London 2012, 11 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists) and Doncic (Tokyo 2020, 16 points, 10 rebounds and 18 assists).
And Jokic's regret to miss a triple-double is mainly because his teammate Jovic missed an easy layup.
After the game, Jovic publicly apologized to Jokic, who said after the game that he had caused Jokic to fail a triple-double: "Are you talking about the ball he passed me? I still can't believe I didn't make it, I'm so sorry, it's really sad. ”
While it's a shame not to have a triple-double, stats have never been too important for Jokic, who is a player who wants to go home and ride first after winning the championship and tries to refuse the championship parade.
Under the leadership of Jokic, Jokic won a big victory in this game and also took the initiative in the white-hot competition for the quarterfinals.
With the United States men's basketball team entering the top four ahead of schedule, Serbia won a big victory to control the initiative, and the top 8 of the men's basketball team at the Paris Olympics are about to emerge.
The first is that the four teams have secured a place in the quarterfinals with one group stage remaining, namely Canada, Germany, France and United States.
Judging from the performance of each team in the first two rounds, the vesting of the remaining 4 places is also about to be released.
First up is the remaining two direct qualification spots, and after beating Puerto Rico by Serbia score, Serbia is expected to be the other team in Group C to qualify directly.
Coupled with the fact that Australia have beaten Spain in Group A (both teams are currently 1-1), it is no surprise that Group B second will belong to Australia.
The last two spots will be between the three teams in third place, with Group C third expected to be South Sudan.
Group B will be between Japan and Brazil (with the winner third, with the winner third), and Group A is expected to be Spain.
In terms of wins and losses, Spain and Brazil are more likely to advance to the top eight, but if Japan wins, then South Sudan is expected to qualify with Spain in terms of small points.