Team USA panic: scandalous beating of Pesic and Serbia by Jokic

Declaration of power from Team USA with a shout of rage. The United States, whose pride was stabbed by Serbia in a good start, the exceptional team of Nikola Jokic and Svetislav Pesic with a defense and a continuous and choral attack in their third preparation match after doubts against Australia (105 -79 ). He did it to the tune of Stephen Curry, who, after two ordinary games, expressed his greatness that he knows how, shooting 6/9 on triples to reach 24 points and completely dismantle the world runner- up.

In the first quarter at 28-28, the reigning Olympic champion was thwarted at the start of the traps by the old and cunning fox Svetislav Pesic, the former Barça player who is about to turn 74 years old, who has the privilege of having one of best. gifted of all time like Jokic. However, like a boss who hit the button and let it all explode, the United States refined its reading of the game, upped the ante in the second quarter to go 59-45 up at halftime and leave a resigned Serbia lost in Team USA in the second half.

Not far from the support, Kevin Durant still not playing and Derrick White just debuted, Steve Kerr’s team gained muscle not only physically, but also mentally and tactically. The Warriors coach deployed a quintet with LeBron, Curry, Embiid, Tatum and Holiday, the novelty when he stepped in for Edwards. For its part, the Balkan team started with Jokic, Petrusev, Avramovic, Guduric and Dobric.

The small number of stars from the United States is the most striking and greedy at first glance, but when Team USA begins to make a change and impose a tremendous speed that is impossible to withstand is when it tightens the defense, capitalizing on his physical joy of athletic size and strength.

Pesic’s complex scheme of his bursts of cuts with and without the ball, orchestrated by the best player in the world, was a dangerous challenge stemming from the defensive chaos against Australia, which put up 68 points in the paint to the Americans. And the truth is that the incessant movement of Serbia’s ever-changing attack began to make Team USA dizzy. But the moment everyone started chasing like someone who owns the catch-all involved in following so many players who made the cut, the United States turned off the faucet.

Perhaps revealing the ultimate goal of the experiment of playing the double ‘5’ like Anthony Davis and Bam Adebayo, Team USA used the same antidote that the Minnesota Timberwolves successfully used to muddy the game of Nikola Jokic, who had increasing problems because on the intensity physics of the Lakers and Heat centers. Serbia showed they were up for it when Filip Petrusev cut in as soon as he was on the court to keep one of the big men away, but the Balkan team blocked.

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