2023 Serbia FIBA Basketball World Cup team explained

See main article: Serbia men's national basketball team.

Club:Serbia
Chrtitle:President
Chairman:Predrag Danilović
Manager:Svetislav Pešić
League:Preliminary round
League Result:Group B Winners
League2:Second round
League2 Result:Group I Runners-up
Playoffs2 Result:Runners-up
Pir Leader:Bogdan Bogdanović
Pir:21.6
Top Scorer:Bogdan Bogdanović
Ppg:19.1
Rebounds Leader:Nikola Milutinov
Rpg:8.4
Assists Leader:Stefan Jović
Apg:5.6
Largest Win:+42

(26 August 2023)
Largest Loss:–6

(10 September 2023)
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Prevseason:2022 EuroBasket

The 2023 Serbia FIBA Basketball World Cup team represented Serbia at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup in Philippines, Japan and Indonesia.

Serbia qualified for the World Cup by taking the 2nd place in the European Second Round Group I.[1] The team is coached by Svetislav Pešić, with assistant coaches Oliver Kostić, Marko Marinović, Saša Kosović, Ognjen Stojaković and Nenad Jakovljević. The Serbian team won the fifth place at the previous World Cup.

This was the 4th appearance of Serbia at the FIBA Basketball World Cup; however, FIBA considers Serbia as the successor team of FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro who themselves qualified on three occasions. Serbia's best result is 2nd place in 2014; however, FIBA considers Serbia as the successor team of FR Yugoslavia who won 2 World Cups (1998, 2002).

Timeline

Qualification

See main article: Serbia at the 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualification.

First round
Second round

Roster

See also: 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup squads.

Earlier candidates

The following were candidates to make the team:

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TeamAddedRemovedReason
Injured[3]
Injured[4]
Withdrew[5]
Injured[6]
Partizan Mozzart Bet
Roster cut[7] [8]
OKK Beograd

Exhibition games

Before the World Cup Serbia will play eight exhibition games. First set will include three closed games against Bosnia and Herzegovina and Poland in Belgrade on 1 and 3 August, and against Montenegro in Podgorica on 5 August. After them team will move to Greece in order to play in 2023 Acropolis of Athens Tournament against Greece on 8 August and Italy on 9 August. After returning from Greece Serbia will play another exhibition game in Belgrade, on 16 August, against Puerto Rico. At the end of August team will leave for China where they will play their last two exhibition games against China on 20 August and Brazil on 21 August.[9]

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Tournament

The 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup is the 19th tournament of the FIBA Basketball World Cup championship that is organized by FIBA.

Preliminary round

See main article: Group B. Serbia was drawn into Group B with South Sudan, China, and the Puerto Rico and will play all of its group phase matches in Quezon City at the Araneta Coliseum from 26 to 30 August.

Results by round

China

This will be the first game between Serbia and China in the World Cup. The Serbians won two of the three Olympic Games matches: 1996 as Yugoslavia and 2016 as Serbia. The Chinese won in the 2004 Olympics.

Puerto Rico

This will be the second game between Puerto Rico and Serbia in the World Cup. The Serbians won their last meeting in 2019 and also won in the final of the 2016 FIBA Men's Olympic Qualifying Tournament and in the semi-finals of the 2020 edition of the said tournament.

South Sudan

This will be the first competitive game between South Sudan and Serbia.

Second round

See main article: Group I. Serbia qualified for the Group I where it will play against first two teams from preliminary round group A Dominican Republic and Italy and will play all of its group phase matches in Quezon City at the Araneta Coliseum from 1 to 3 September.

Results by round

Dominican Republic

Final round

Quarterfinal

This was the second game between Lithuania and Serbia in the World Cup. The Lithuanians won the first meeting in 2010. The Lithuanians also won in the semi-finals of EuroBasket 2015, which was the last competitive game between the two teams.

Semifinal

This was the first competitive game between Serbia and Canada.

Final

See main article: 2023 FIBA Basketball World Cup final. This was the second game between Germany and Serbia in the World Cup. The Germans won the first meeting in 2010. The Germans also went 2–0 in their head-to-head matchups in the first round of the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup European Qualifiers.

Statistics

Player statistics

Legend
  GPGames played  GS Games started MPG Minutes per game
 FG% Field-goal percentage 3FG% 3-point field-goal percentage FT% Free-throw percentage
 RPG Rebounds per game APG Assists per game SPG Steals per game
 BPG Blocks per game PPG Points per game EF PIR per game
Player
7 0 17.3 .636 .263 .880 1.4 2.1 1.6 0.3 11.3 11.9
8 8 27.8 .644 .423 .853 3.3 4.6 2.1 0.4 19.1 21.6
8 0 15.3 .750 .273 .375 2.6 1.4 1.3 0.4 3.8 6.9
8 7 20.4 .645 .192 .800 2.0 0.8 1.0 0.3 8.4 7.1
8 0 17.1 .812 .412 .864 2.1 3.3 0.4 0.1 8.3 10.6
8 8 23.9 .704 .423 .769 3.0 2.6 0.4 0.1 10.1 12.0
8 8 21.6 .583 .278 .571 2.0 5.6 1.1 0.0 5.9 10.0
8 1 16.0 .545 .452 .889 1.3 0.5 0.6 0.1 7.8 7.3
8 8 24.5 .661 .000 .793 8.4 2.3 0.6 0.6 12.1 19.5
6 0 13.8 .762 .600 .800 3.5 0.8 0.2 0.5 8.2 10.8
5 0 8.7 .556 .833 .333 3.0 0.0 0.2 0.2 5.4 5.8
3 0 6.5 1.000 .000 .500 1.0 0.3 0.0 0.3 1.0 2.0
Total 8 8 200.0 .667 .377.783 34.1 23.6 9.1 2.9 95.1 117.9

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Mukama je kraj, sad ide ono pravo: Srbija na Mundobasketu! . mozzartsport.com . 28 July 2023.
  2. Web site: Окупио се тим Србије: Селектор Пешић одредио списак кандидата за национални тим на Светском првенству 2023. . kss.rs . 28 July 2023. sr.
  3. Web site: Srbija ostala bez Pokuševskog. mozzartsport.com . 28 July 2023. sr.
  4. Web site: Jović stigao u Pešićevu četu, ali zato Jaramaz otpao. mozzartsport.com . 31 July 2023. sr.
  5. Web site: Немања Недовић неће бити део тима Србије на Светском првенству. kss.rs . 11 August 2023. sr.
  6. Web site: Србија у среду дочекује Порторико. kss.rs . 15 August 2023. sr.
  7. Web site: Србија убедљива против Порторика. kss.rs . 15 August 2023. sr.
  8. Web site: Pešić odredio 12 igrača za Mundobasket. mozzartsport.com . 22 August 2023. sr.
  9. Web site: Put ka Mundobasketu: Osam utakmica, prilika za osvetu Italijanima, dva rivala iz grupe i novi plejmejker Zvezde. mozzartsport.com. 28 July 2023. sr.