Serbia is the FIBA U19 World Champion !!! - Jul 22, 2007 (by Dragan Jankovski)
Serbia revenged to USA for defeat in the group in the most important moment at front of almost 5.000 people in Novi Sad's hall 'Spens'. They celebrated in the final of the FIBA World Championship U19 74:69. Serbians opened the game in style making run 11-2 mostly owing to Katnic, Jeremic and Cakarevic and later in the second quarter center Macvan and Jeremic continued in same rhythm. [read more]
Serbia revenged to USA for defeat in the group in the most important moment at front of almost 5.000 people in Novi Sad's hall 'Spens'. They celebrated in the final of the FIBA World Championship U19 74:69. Serbians opened the game in style making run 11-2 mostly owing to Katnic, Jeremic and Cakarevic and later in the second quarter center Macvan and Jeremic continued in same rhythm. Three minutes before the half time score was 42:23 but USA succeeded through Curry and Beverley to decrease their minus on the half time on -13. In the first half Jeremic scored 15 points while Macvan had 13. At the beginning of the third quarter there was totally different picture on the court, USA set up zone defense, Serbian players didn't succeed to find a good solutions in offense making lot of mistakes which resulted with 46:42 in the middle of this period. In the next 5 minutes Serbia resisted on furious rhythm by USA and came in the last quarter having 57:47. Three minutes before the end USA came really close on 65:62 but in the next offense Stojacic netted the most important 3-pts shot for 68:62 which was unreachable for USA until the end. Hero from the semifinal game against Brazil Mladen Jeremic (195-G-88) shined again pouring in 24 points. Center Milan Macvan (206-F/C-89) had double-double 19 points and 10 rebounds while Stefan Stojacic (197-G-89) posted 14 points. Deon Thompson (203-F-88) who scored 16 points and Patrick Beverley (185-G-88) who added 15 points and 8 rebounds were better than the others for USA.
USA and Serbia to play in the Final - Jul 22, 2007 (by Eurobasket News)
USA U19 - France U19 78:75
USA team became the second finalist of the World Championship in Serbia. They defeated France in one of the highly anticipated clashes to secure their Final appearence. USA will now play against hosting Serbia to try to bring the trophy back home.
However France never provided the United States players with a light jog en route to the Final. French team looked better at the start of this one and quickly cleared off to a 19:12 lead after the first frame. [read more]
USA U19 - France U19 78:75 USA team became the second finalist of the World Championship in Serbia. They defeated France in one of the highly anticipated clashes to secure their Final appearence. USA will now play against hosting Serbia to try to bring the trophy back home. However France never provided the United States players with a light jog en route to the Final. French team looked better at the start of this one and quickly cleared off to a 19:12 lead after the first frame. They maintained the lead throughout the next two quarters and entered the fourth stanza in front 59:53. USA needed almost the whole quarter to finally cut the deficit and surge ahead with under 3 minutes to go in regulation. They held on to a 3-point advantage in the last seconds but France had all the chances to force overtime when Antoine Diot (191-G-89) tried it from three point line. But his shot missed the target and the USA celebrated their 8th consecutive win at the tournament.
Brazil U19 - Serbia U19 74:89 Brazil stopped just one step away from the Final of the World Championship in Novi Sad. They were beaten by the homeside in a heated semifinal yesterday. It was mainly about the first half that forecasted the outcome for Brazilian youngsters. Serbian players got to a better start as they nailed 11 unanswered points to begin the game with. Serbia dominated the game early on and led 25:17 after the opening quarter. Brazil struggled to come any closer in the second quarter as Serbians found the touch from beyond the arc. A couple of three pointers cooled Brazilian comebeck efforts off and established a 49:28 advantage at halftime. Brazil needed some heroics to save this one and they were about to come. Betihno Duarte drained a trey to mark a 23:18 dominance in the third quarter. However it was not enough for an overall success as Serbia wisely controlled the tempo in the final stages and secured a home Final. Mladen Jeremic (195-G-88) provided 21 points and 6 rebounds for Serbia. Milan Macvan (206-F/C-89) added another 12 points for the winners. Paulo Prestes (208-C-88) sparked with 31 points and 15 boards for Brazil. Thomas Melazzo (200-F/G-88) had 14 points in defeat. Brazil dominated the boards 33:25. But Serbia converted solid 54.4% from the field, including 57.1% from beyond the arc. Serbia will now take on the USA in today's title decider. Brazil faces France in the Bronze game.
Serbia smashed Turkey 94:56 and advanced to the semis - Jul 21, 2007 (by Dragan Jankovski)
Serbia advanced to the semis smashing Turkey in the quarterfinal 94:56. Turkey was an equal rival just in the first five minutes after what Serbia totally dominated until the very end. Hosts finished game having 44 rebounds while Turkey had only 19. Coach Nikolic gave a chance to all players and all of them exploited it. [read more]
Serbia advanced to the semis smashing Turkey in the quarterfinal 94:56. Turkey was an equal rival just in the first five minutes after what Serbia totally dominated until the very end. Hosts finished game having 44 rebounds while Turkey had only 19. Coach Nikolic gave a chance to all players and all of them exploited it. Stefan Stojacic (197-G-89) and Milan Macvan (206-F/C-89) scored 13 points each while Stefan Markovic (191-G-88) and Aleksandar Radulovic (188-G-88) also added same digits, 12 points. Today at 18:00h in the semis Serbia will play against Brazil who made surprise beating until that moment undefeated Australia 73:72. In the other semifinal game USA will meet France today at 20:30h. Interesting is that these four team came from the same qualifying group.
Head coach of Serbian U19 NT Miroslav Nikolic for the local newspapers said: “ We have to rest as much as we can and to prepare for Brazil who surprised Australia. Brazil has very good players, we already outplayed them once but it will be difficult for us to do the same again. We will give our best and if we don't take the medal on this WC it will be my personal failure."
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