Impressive n Croatiandominated for 40 minutes and crushed me 108-92 her Slovenia of the clearly paid Luka Doncic for his first group Pre-Olympic Tournament at SEF laying a solid foundation to reach the final. The match was a performance for one role, with the difference reaching +29 in the last period,
The leader of the match was Dario Saric, who had a triple-double with 19 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists. Excellent too Mario Hezonia with 12 points, 6 rebounds, 8 assists and 3 steals, while his performance was surprising Goran Filipovic, who scored 21 points with 6/7 three-pointers, but also 6 assists. His contribution is also valuable Ivica Zubac with 18 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists.
Far from his best self, the Mavericks superstar did a triple-double with 26 points, 11 rebounds and 10 assists, but he was very inaccurate (8/23 shots) and lacked energy on defense. THE Klemen Prepelic had 19 points with 4/11 three-pointers, while o Josh Nimbo scored 12 points and 9 rebounds.
Croatia’s next game is on Wednesday evening against New Zealand (5.30pm), who Slovenia face at the same time on Thursday.
The match
THE Croatian made an impressive start to the game and before the five minute mark reached +10 (5-15), with Saric and Filipovich to have 10 points each. Doncic was annoyingly off target having 1/9 shots in the first period, as a result of which Slovenia found itself at -18, 13-31, just before the end of the quarter (16-31).
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The Mavericks superstar offered some breathing space to his team by cutting the difference to twelve (24-36, 29-41), but the Croatians continued to be in control (31-48) based on Zoobats, which was loaded with three fouls from the first part. The half ended with the “Croatia” somewhat gathering the difference, 41-54, thanks to three-pointers from Prepelic and Dragic.
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His three-pointer Chanchar at the beginning of the second half it brought the difference to ten (46-56), however before we reached the halfway point of the period Croatia broke away with +20 (53-73), with Filipovich to reach 4/5 behind 6.75m. H almost a half-hour stoppage due to a problem with the clock of a basket (with the score at 60-81, 2:38 before the end of the quarter) he did not intercept the team of Josip Cesar, who also reached +25 (68-93) at the end of the quarter.
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The fourth period acquired a procedural character, with Vassilis Spanoulis – who came to SEF for… scouting – leaving about eight minutes before the end amid warm applause from the approximately 4,000 spectators. Croatia shot up to +29 (73-102).
Ten minutes: 16-31, 41-54, 68-93, 92-108.
Referees: Vazquez (Puerto Rico), Salins (Latvia), Garcia (Venezuela)
See here the statistics of the match
Source: Sport Fm
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