With six wins and two losses, Serbia took a big step towards qualifying for the World Cup, but the work is not finished yet. How many victories does she lack before Mundobasket and who stands in her way?
Basketball representation Of Serbia she won both games in the summer World Cup qualification window. In Belgrade they defeated Iceland (102:73), and in Pesaro Italy (76:64). Thus, Serbia is currently in the second position in the qualification group with six wins and two losses.
Serbia has four more games left until the end of the qualification cycle. Two against Lithuania and one each against Iceland and Italy.
The qualification system for the World Championship, which will be held next year in Doha, consists of two stages. The first in which there are groups of four national teams from which the best three go to the second group, where they join the three best from the second group. From the second stage, the best three placed national teams go to Mundobasket. The results from the first phase are transferred to the second.
During the first phase, Serbia registered four victories, two each against Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Switzerland, while it was defeated twice by Turkey. Apart from Serbia, Turkey and Bosnia and Herzegovina advanced from that qualification group to the second stage.
Serbia and its coach Dušan Alempijević made the best possible use of the summer window in which three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokić appeared. Nikola Jović, Miami Heat basketball player, played alongside him, while the rest of the team was mostly from Euroleague teams.
There will certainly be no players from the NBA for the next games scheduled at the end of November and at the end of February, that is, at the beginning of March, while the playing of Euroleague players will depend on the goodwill of the clubs.
If Serbia wins three of the next four games, it will secure a place in the Mundobasket. The current state of the table seems to be that Turkey is first with a score of 8:0, Serbia is second with 6:2, Italy is third with 5:3, Lithuania is fourth with 4:4, while Bosnia and Herzegovina and Iceland are 3:5.
Serbia is a big favorite in the match against Iceland, while they will welcome Italy and Lithuania at home, in those duels a lot will depend on the availability of players.
Lithuania is in a problem because there is a conflict between the players and the union, that's why a large number of players decided to miss the summer window. Despite that, the Lithuanians managed to record one win and one loss. Turkey was better (94:66), while they beat Bosnia and Herzegovina (78:73).
In the summer window, in addition to the defeat against Serbia (76:64), Italy experienced another defeat against Bosnia and Herzegovina (78:76). With that, she made the further course of the qualification much more difficult for herself, because after the starting 5:1 and the second position in the group, she reached the third place and 5:3 with the victory of the team against Lithuania. In the event that Italy and Serbia are equal in number of victories, Serbia has the advantage in the mutual score.
In addition to Italy and Lithuania, Serbia's competitor is Bosnia and Herzegovina. BiH managed to defeat Italy in this window (78:76). In the meantime, there was a strange situation in the BiH team. National team player Aleksandar Lazić and assistant coach Zoran Petković left the national team after being invited by Igokea, the club where they work.
The Bosnian media speculate that it is about political pressure from the former president of Republika Srpska, Milorad Dodik, who is the founder of the Igokea club from Laktaš. The alleged pressure followed chanting by BH fanatics fans against the recently deceased war criminal Ratko Mladić.
BiH was defeated in Lithuania 78:73. In a potential scenario in which BiH and Serbia will have the same number of victories, Serbia will be placed better due to a better mutual score.
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