Four years ago, Montenegro was an outsider in a group with Greece, Brazil and New Zealand and recorded all three defeats in the preliminary stage of the Mundobasket in China. Now the situation is different - the team Boško Radović he was drawn in the fourth out of eight hats in the draw and has been given opponents against whom he can claim entry into the top 16 selections on the planet.
The biggest temptation will be at the very start, because the "reds" with a victory over Mexico would open the door to the second phase, where the USA and Greece would most likely await them.
The good thing for Montenegro is that all 12 players in Radovic's team are in their prime. The team that reached the round of XNUMX of the Eurobasket last year and was eliminated by Germany under somewhat strange circumstances, is now even stronger for Nikola Vucevic i Nikola Ivanovic.
Nine players were in the team last year as well, and the key question is how Radović will fit Ivanović and Kendrick Perry, who played phenomenally at the European Championship, and will the captain Bojan Dubljević to raise the level of the game compared to the preparatory matches.
If those two things coincide, Montenegro will not only be a serious candidate for the main stage, but will be able to secretly dream of the quarterfinals as well, because both Lithuania and Greece are without many big stars...
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