By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
With a highly crucial 4/4 from the free-throw line in the final 15 seconds of the game, cold-blooded Nikola Jokic kept Serbia safe and sound from Croatia’s tenacious efforts to completely turned the game upside down in their favor.
“I wasn’t really warm when I made the first free throw, the rest of them was a routine.”, he said, as reported by Novosti.
The Denver Nuggets center was happy with the result but believes that his team should have avoided the last-minutes trouble. “We had a 14-point advantage against them, as in the tournament in Argentina. We had made a great comeback in the second half, but we knew that in this kind of games you need to play intensely for a whole game. Not just a quarter or two.”
“Raduljica’s dunk was a turning point but Bogdanovic with his shots put us in a pole position.”, he added.
Next opponent for Serbia is the Australian Boomers. “The Australians won that game by 15 points but the score didn’t say the truth about what took place on court. We were close for 38 minutes but then they increased their difference very quickly. Now we are facing them in the semifinals of the Olympic Games. We will not be safe unless we play with passion and give our everything to make it to the final.”