"They didn't lose a single game, they had a perfect championship, that doesn't surprise me." I know the coach, the players, the system, their greatest quality is continuity, because they have been playing together for many years, ever since Henrik Randle", said the coach of the Serbian national basketball team, Svetislav Pešić, ahead of the final of the World Cup in Manila against Germany.
"I am looking forward to today's big match between the Serbian and Canadian national teams." These are two national teams with a long basketball history, but different player development programs and successes on the international stage. It is obvious that the Serbian team has grown and matured, that it is very successful and respected and that it has a wonderful history," says the former coach of the Cleveland Cavaliers, the Russian national team and Maccabi, who is now a member of the Canadian national team's coaching staff.
Serbia will play the winner of the Lithuania - America match in the quarterfinals.
The Dominican Republic, like Serbia, finished the first stage of the competition with three victories, but in the first game of the newly formed Group I, they unexpectedly suffered a defeat, as did Serbia.
In the second round, Serbian basketball players will play against Dominican Republic basketball players on Sunday at 14 p.m
In the toughest game of the World Basketball Championship, Serbia defeated the team of South Sudan with 115:83.
The Serbian national team defeated the Puerto Rican team with a score of 94:77
In the first match, the team of coach Svetislav Pešić convincingly defeated the Chinese team with a score of 105:63.
