The Montenegrin national basketball team controlled the game against Greece for 30 minutes last night, leading and playing well, but in the fourth quarter there was a decline - the host team came back in the final period and achieved victory (69:61).
Coach Boško Radović rested Vladimir Mihailović against the Greeks, while Kyle Olman played his first match for our national team.
"Another good and valuable test for us against a quality rival. Neither they nor we had a shooting night, although I think we played good basketball for 30 minutes, but in the last quarter we fell short in both energy and concentration," said coach Boško Radović after the match.
Montenegro has three strong tests behind them, during which Nikola Vučević and his teammates showed that they will have something to say at the European Championship.
"It is important that we had good minutes in all three games against strong opponents, but we also have obvious problems - primarily in the form of turnovers and poor basket building, and we also missed seven free throws. Despite all that, we ended up with a good result, although most of those things happened in the last quarter. We will have to work on that until the start of the championship, to reduce the number of turnovers and better control the offensive rebound of our rivals. I hope that we will fix that in the next two tests and be ready to welcome the start of the European Championship," said coach Radović after the match.
Montenegro will play Israel in Bar on Sunday (16.30:22 PM), and Turkey in Istanbul on August XNUMXnd.
After the match with Turkey, we will travel to Tampere. Our team is in Group B, which also includes hosts Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Sweden and Great Britain.
The team will play their first match on August 27th against Germany, while two days later they will play against Lithuania.
Montenegro plays Finland on August 30th, the match with Sweden is on September XNUMXst, and the match with Great Britain is on September XNUMXrd.
Four teams advance from the group to the knockout phase, which is played in Latvia.
Apart from Latvia and Finland, the host countries of the group stage are Poland and Cyprus.
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