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@ABA_League: The Black and Whites (@PartizanBC) celebrated in overtime (MVP)

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In the ABA League Round 16, Partizan celebrated 92 – 97 (+5) against Zadar (after one overtime) in the Krešimir Ćosić Sports Hall. After 45 minutes, the team from Belgrade («White City«) managed to score an important win for the chance to fight for the Playoffs. The Home team took the lead at the beginning of the match and, in the second part, Partizan managed to turn the game around. Eventually, after the first 10 minutes, the hosts were leading by 3 (23 – 20). In the second quarter, the guests managed to take the lead and that part of the game was finished with a score 23 – 30 (+7) for Partizan. In the third quarter, the Black and Whites (Crno-Beli) were leading by 14 (48 – 62), but Zadar got back and before the fourth quarter the away team was leading by 4 (65 – 69). In that

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@ABA_League: @PartizanBC is searching revenge against @kkzadar (Božić, MVP)

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In the ABA League Round 16, Zadar is hosting Partizan in the Krešimir Ćosić Sports Hall, in one of the most beautiful cities on the Adriatic eastern coast (also known as Jadran). In Belgrade («White City«), in the Round 5, the game against Zadar was crucial for the Black and Whites (Crno-Beli). After the loss (85 – 95), the previous Partizan head coach, Nenad Čanak, resigned, and, on his place, came the current coach Andrea Trinchieri. And now the Serbian squad will try to revenge for the loss. Currently, Zadar is the second worst team in the regional league with 5 wins and 11 losses, while Trinchieri’s team is on the fourth position with 9 victories and 6 defeats. An Interesting fact is that the team from Croatia (Republic of Croatia) scored the first win in the league against the Black and Whites (in the mentioned Round 5). Besides against

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@EuroCup Top 16: @PartizanBC is hosting @ASMonaco_Basket (Pionir, Belgrade)

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Partizan will play against Monaco (La Roca Team, Les Rouges et Blancs, The Red and Whites) in the EuroCup Top 16 third round, in the Aleksandar Nikolić Sports Hall (also known as Pionir). This will be the first match between these two teams after more than 35 years. Both teams have one victory and one loss in this EuroCup Top 16 2019, and both squads won in the second round. In the first round, the guests lost in Berlin (74 – 83) while Rytas Vilnius was better than the home squad with a score of 80 – 74. In the second round, Monaco was better than the Lithuanian team with a score of 75 – 70 and the Black and Whites (Crno-Beli) won 78 – 66 against the German team. Looking back at the previous results in the Group E, it is obvious that all 4 teams will start fresh

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@FIBAWC: Serbia closer to China, important win against Greece (@FIBA)

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The National team of Serbia won 84 – 61 against Greece in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Qualifiers in the “Aleksandar Nikolić” Sports Hall (also known as Pionir), in Belgrade. It was the first defeat for Hellas in these Qualifiers. Before the game, Greece had already Qualified for China due to its 9 Victories. On the other side, if Serbia wants to participate at the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019, Đorđević’s squad needs to win one of the two remaining games in these Qualifiers: against Estonia or Israel. Those games will be played in February. Stefan Jović was the top scorer with 22 points for Sebia. The Point guard from Munich also had 4 assists and 3 steals but 7 turnovers. Two of his teammates finished the game with 13 points each one of them: Miroslav Raduljica and Vasilije Micić. The EuroLeague MVP of November also had 6

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Đorđević: «We need to defend what we earned» (@FIBAWC, @FIBA, Serbia, Greece)

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The Serbian basketball team is playing against Greece in Belgrade and before that match, the head coach Aleksandar Đorđević made a comment about the game against Israel. Serbia lost in Tel Aviv with a score of 83 – 74. “We reacted very well after defeat against Israel. We know where we made mistakes and, also, why. We analysed some things, talk about them, the way we always do and after yesterday recovering practice, today we are on the court again to get ready for Greece. We need to forget the match against Israel ASAP. We learned something from that game and now we need to focus on Greece. They won’t feel any pressure. Players from their national league are here full of self-confidence and with a desire to prove themselves. They made an excellent result, they will be participants at World Cup. So without pressure they will give their maximum.

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@FIBAWC: Đorđević’s squad on the rocky road after defeat in Tel Aviv (@FIBA)

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In the first game of the November FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Qualifiers Window, Israel won 83 – 74 against Serbia in Tel Aviv and ruined the first chance for Aleksandar Đorđević’s squad to book a ticket for China. After the defeat in Israel, Serbia will take the harder road in order to go to the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 and try to defend the silver medal from Spain they won in 2014. During the whole match the national team of Serbia was searching for its own game, and both teams were leading during the match. At the end, the last quarter decided the winner, and, in that period of the game, the guests were clueless against the excellent home team play. Guy Pnini was the top scorer, with 18 points and 3 rebounds in Israel. His teammate Jake Cohen added 14, while two players finished the match

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@FIBAWC: Four players are not traveling to Israel (Serbia, Srbija, @FIBA)

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At the practice before the trip to Israel, the Serbian coach, Aleksandar Đođrević, announced that Rade Zagorac, Stefan Pot, Aleksa Radanov and Dejan Kravić won’t be travelling to Tel Aviv to play against Israel in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 European Qualifiers. In the November qualification window, the Serbian team will play two games. The First one against Israel, in Tel Aviv, and the second one against Greece, in Belgrade. For the match against Greece, Đorđević’s squad will be stronger, for three EuroLeague players: Vasilije Micić (Efes), Vladimir Lučić and Stefan Jović (both from Munich), but in Israel they won’t be able to help their teammates. The Serbian head coach told the press that as it was the case before now, it is the same situation with injuries. “Some of the players came with injuries from the club competitions, like Dobrić and Radanov. You know about Zagorac’s nose injure

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@FIBAWC: Đorđević announced the list without trio from Munich (@FIBA)

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The Serbian head coach, Aleksandar Đođrđević, announced the 16 players who will prepare for the next qualifying window for the FIBA World Cup 2019 in China. As it was predicted, there are no players from the EuroLeague. After the last qualifying window, during September, the players from Munich (Stefan Jović, Vladimir Lučić and Nemanja Dangubić) were hoping that their team will let them play against Israel on November 30th 2018. His team will play the day before against Maccabi in EuroLeague and they were hoping to stay with the Serbian squad in Tel Aviv for one more day. But Lučić, Dangubić and Jović are not on Đođević’s list. As it was the case before, the Serbian head coach put some new names that will have the chance to book the spots for the games against Israel (November 30th in Tel Aviv) and Greece (December 3rd in Belgrade, “Aleksandar Nikolić” Sports

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September Window: Đorđević unveils 16 players roster (@FIBA, Bjelica, Bogdanović)

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The Head coach of the Serbian national team, Aleksandar Đorđević, announced the national selection that will compete in the September window of the European Qualifiers 2017-2019 games for the FIBA Basketball World Cup China 2019. Despite the fact that Boban Marjanović (Center, C), Miloš Teodosić (Point guard – Shooting guard, PG – SG) and Nikola Jokić (C) won’t play for the national team, the Serbian squad is ready for the new challenges. The First two mentioned players won’t play due the decision of their club, Los Angeles Clippers, and Jokić decided not to play due to unknown reasons. The Serbian national team will include, among others, Sacramento Kings Nemanja Bjelica (Power forward – Small forward, PF – SF) and Bogdan Bogdanović (SG), while plenty EuroLeague players had made the cut. The Serbian 16-men squad is the following: Stefan Jović (PG) from Munich, Vasilije Micić (PG, who played 2 of the

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