At the Japan Olympics in 2021, Josh Green’s Australian team got the better of Mavericks teammate Luka Doncic and Slovenia in the bronze medal game. Two years...
Next up, Slovenia will face Germany in the quarterfinals at 6:10 a.m. CT on Sunday.U.S. guard Anthony Edwards drives on Montenegro guard Kendrick Perry and center Nikola Vucevic during the second half of a Basketball World Cup second round match in Manila, Philippines Friday, Sept. 1, 2023. MANILA, Philippines — Everything had looked so easy for the U.S. at the Basketball World Cup. Points were coming in bunches, final scores were blowouts and stress wasn’t a problem.
They found a way in the end, winning 85-73 to remain unbeaten and move to the brink of the quarterfinals.Anthony Edwards scored all of his team-high 17 points in the second half for the Americans , who got 12 from Austin Reaves and 11 from Jaren Jackson Jr. Mikal Bridges and Tyrese Haliburton each added 10 for the U.S., which didn’t pull away until late in the fourth.Nikola Vucevic had 18 points and 16 rebounds for Montenegro, which led 39-38 at the half.
The U.S. led 61-55 going into the fourth and tacked a point on to make it a seven-point edge — its biggest of the game to that point — early in the final quarter. Montenegro just wouldn’t go away. A 3-pointer by Nikola Ivanovic got the underdogs within 64-62 with 7:15 remaining, and the Americans couldn’t exhale until the final seconds — a far cry from the way the first three games of the tournament went, with points coming in bunches and the U.S. winning every game by at least 27 points.Montenegro had a game plan and worked it nearly to perfection: Slow the Americans down by any means necessary — “our only hope,” Vucevic said.
“A small country like Montenegro, we played tonight maybe one of the best games ever,” Montenegro coach Bosko Radovic said. “We played such a good team.”
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