The basketball team of Serbia against the Dominican Republic is playing a decisive match for the place in the quarter-finals of the Mundobasket. Victory puts Svetislav Pešić's team among the eight best teams in the world, defeat means the end of the championship, writes RTS.
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.
Italian basketball players defeated the Serbian national team with a score of 78:76 in the first match of the second stage of the World Championship.
The most effective in the Serbian selection were Bogdan Bogdanović with 18 points, but also one of 13 for three points, three rebounds and four assists, and Nikola Milutinov, who scored 14 points with 12 rebounds.
In Italy, Simone Fontecchio stood out with 30 points, seven rebounds and four assists, while Marco Spizu added 14 points, five rebounds and two assists.
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