Serbia Starts Acropolis Tournament with a Win against Italy (#EuroBasket2017)
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Serbia Starts Acropolis Tournament with a Win against Italy (#EuroBasket2017)

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Acropolis International Basketball Tournament started with a game between Serbia and Italy, where the Aleksandar Djordjevic’s team won 73 – 65.

This was the best game for Boban Marjanovic so far, he was a leading player with 21 points and 8 rebounds, Vladimir Lucic scored 12 and Bogdan Bogdanovic, 10. In Italian team the best one was Marco Belinelli with 20 and the second best was Pietro Aradori with 11.

The starting five for Serbian team were captain Vasilije Micic, Dragan Milosavljevic, Vladimir Lucic, Milan Macvan and Boban Marjanovic, and for the Italian team were Daniel Hackett, Marco Belinelli, Luigi Datome, Nicolo Melli and Ricardo Cervi.

At the end of the first quarter Italy was leading 24 – 22 and the best scorer was Belinelli with 7 points. For Serbia, Marjanovic scored 12 points. Serbia started really bad. They didn’t have the control of the ball and made lots of mistakes in defence, but also in offence. Somehow, Djordjevic’s team managed to finish first half leading 40 – 38 against Italy. Belinelli stayed the leading scorer for Italian team with 13 and Marjanovic for Serbian with 14 points.

In the second half Serbia started to play good defense and Lucic and Bogdanovic scored important points for Serbia. After the third quarter scored was 59 – 56 for Djordjevic’s team. And in the end of the game score was 73 – 65 for team Serbia.

After the game coach of the Serbian team Aleksandr Djordjevic’s said that his team played like men: “We didn’t play with all players but I am satisfied how we played. We played taught game, Belinelli played for about 31 minute, so that is showing that Italians wanted to win. This wasn’t only practice. We played one good game, we reacted really well. Their best shooters scored for three and we had to read those players better, to make less mistakes in fast breaks. We did manage to find our defense and this was good game for Boban Marjanovic. Actually, it was his best game during this preparation period. This is how we are finding our way to play with those players we have in rooster. Marjanovic defense was the thing I like the most in his play, it was much better than in the games before”, said Djordjevic whose team will play tomorrow against Georgia.

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Tomorrow we will she Georgia team. They are taught and strong team. They are full of energy and they wanted to play with the full rooster but like in our team, it is not possible. We will see tomorrow, we have to find energy and to use tomorrow’s game for the future”, said the head coach of Serbian team.

Stefan Jovic was also satisfied with the game his team showed: “It was a fast game, with lot of running. In this moment, the most important thing is that we made winning streak and now we are preparing for Georgia. I want to congratulate to my teammates on a good game, on the energy we all showed and on team play”, said Jovic.

The coach of Italian squad Ettore Messina said that his team did some good things in defense: «For us it was a good game because we did some good things in defense and in offense We were in equal game all the time except the last part of the fourth quarter when we let them score easily for three points. But we have a good game and we are preparing for Eurobasket”, said Messina who mentioned that Italians have rookies in their team.

«We are a small team, we have few rookies in the team, we have to play defense, control the rhythm of the game and to have good chance when we attack, and we have to try to win the games«, added the head coach of Italians who agreed that every team wants to be in Istanbul for final games.

Everyone wants to be in Istanbul for the final games and that is our goal too”, finished the legendary coach.

 

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