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European Basketball Championships: Serbia obstacle for Italy

2022-09-11T16:03:26.978Z


Datome: 'It is forbidden to make mistakes, we will try them all' (ANSA) On the field at 18 Italy-Serbiia The rock in the round of 16 at the European basketball championships is the size of a mountain and this mountain has the appearance of the giant Nikola Jokic, two years winner of the NBA MVP award with the Denver Nuggets. On him, a modern center, skilled in shooting and with a refined vision of the game, the attention of Italy will focus on Sunday at 18 against Se


On the field at 18 Italy-Serbiia

The rock in the round of 16 at the European basketball championships is the size of a mountain and this mountain has the appearance of the giant Nikola Jokic, two years winner of the NBA MVP award with the Denver Nuggets.

On him, a modern center, skilled in shooting and with a refined vision of the game, the attention of Italy will focus on Sunday at 18 against Serbia, however, does not want to play the part of sacrificial lamb.


    Captain Datome plays the charge: "Now you can't go wrong. Serbia is a strong team but experience has taught me that in the knockout stages every detail counts and no one can afford to underestimate their opponents.


    We are here and we want to try them all to move forward. "Achille Polonara echoes him:" It is useless to hide the fact that we will not be the favorites and for sure it will not be easy.


    We will try to have fun playing with the intent to undermine their certainties.

We haven't worked hard to be tourists in Berlin, even if we will have to face one of the three strongest teams around.

Even against Antetokounmpo's Greece they gave us up for dead and instead we were still there in the final.


    We are ready. "Stefano Tonut shares the same opinion:" Last year too we started as underdogs and moreover they played away on their field.

Today this Serbia is even stronger and it will be a challenge to beat it.

But this team has great willpower and determination in


    The Azzurri, arrived at lunchtime in Berlin, can count on the memory of the pre-Olympic but the trend with Serbia is not in favor: 14 previous, 11 defeats.

The last one in August at the Hamburg tournament in a very balanced match, with Italy without Gallinari then as today.

To have a real chance to win, Italy will have to put pressure on the ball, resist rebounds, run in transition, make the long Serbs move and be precise in shooting: that is, get as close as possible to the perfect match.

(HANDLE).


Source: ansa

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