SERBIA-SLOVENIA 74:92

The Serbian team was defeated in Ljubljana in the match to qualify for the European Championship host of “Eurobasket 2013” and in the last match of the championship (Saturday, 17:30) will fight for the seventh, and have the opportunity to participate in the elections next year’s World Championships in Spain . Chosen players  by coach  Dusan Ivkovic failed in a short time recover from a tough loss in the quarter, again allowing rival to quite easily acquire a huge advantage that is below the match was very difficult to reach. Slovenian team was primarily due to a shiny rubble for three points in the first half that achieved high lead and alowed them to play much smoother and take the Triumph: Serbia – Slovenia 74:92 (16:30, 19:23, 20: 18, 19:21).

The starting five of our team with not enough recovered Stefan Markovic has managed to lead 6-2 at the start of the meeting. However, it was soon followed by a series of selection Slovenia 15:1 initiated by  Bostjan Nachbar and continued brothers Zoran and Goran Dragic implementation quick counter-attack lead with 7:17 in the seventh minute. At the end of the first quarter in which our team has received as many as 30 points, he was forced to face the serious disadvantage (16:30). Nemanja Nedovic scored the first three, and after interceptions and dunk Djordje Gagic, Serbia managed to slightly reduce outcome-defcit (23:33). In the end of the first half, animated captain Nenad Krstic is achieved in a short interval of 10 points, but against Slovenian team that kicked the ball behind the line 6.75 of excellent  12-7 and was superior to jump the game did not help much in the first 20 minutes of the match – 35:53 .

Slovenian team has a record of leadership came in the 24th minute – 37:60. Only then did the Serbian national team force upon their rhythm, reinforce their tackling, established in the jump and balance 28 minute above Vasilije Micic, Djordje Gagic and Rasko Katic managed to almost halve the backlog – 51:64. All hope our team could even endanger the advantage over the host team, the new triples are scattered strong Blazic and Zoran Dragic, after which the selection Slovenia regained enormous stash – 61:81, which enabled her to calmly bring the game to an end and reach a convincing triumph 74:92.

SERBIA: Nedovic 8, Nemanja Krstic, Micic 7, Bogdanovic 11, Bjelice 5, Markovic 4, Kalinic 1, Gagić 12, Nenad Krstic 16, Andjusic, Katic 6, Stimac 4.