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they re out!
The fact is that Serbia have much better players than France, but as a team they fall this time and a coach is become to ... i dont know how to say.
In today game rance was better but Serbians did not play good this year so nothing special to me that they lost.......
they re out!
Why is that?
slovenia loves referees and fairplay.
fair play maybe, but referees? That would be absurd!
I love refs, when they love me back 2 times over. That is not the case here.
Don't get too excited, they'll get an invite for sure.
No, the winner of the olympics (Argentina) is qualified to play the WBC and the WBC winner gets a seed for the olympics.
Congrats to France!
Tony and co did a great job!
a typical fan talking even though the game isnt finish...
Move over TNT! What a read. You guys are great commentators! = )
Yea Tony! Prayer and hard work pays off once again.
Slovenia is still
I've just hear from a friend in Belgrade that a fight broke out after the game in the SCG locker room.
Has anybody heard anything similar?
Yes, a fight broke out between Igor Rakocevic and Marko Jaric. Actually all players split right after the game, only two of them returned to their hotel with a team bus.
According to AP:
Serbia-Montenegro Basketball Coach Quits
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC, Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, September 21, 2005
(09-21) 03:57 PDT NOVI SAD, Serbia-Montenegro (AP) -- Serbia-Montenegro basketball coach Zeljko Obradovic resigned Wednesday after his team's early exit from the European Championship and a locker room brawl between several teammates.
France beat Serbia-Montenegro 74-71 Tuesday to reach the quarterfinals, eliminating the hosts and reigning world champions with a 2-2 record.
Team captain Dejan Bodiroga, center Zeljko Rebraca of the Los Angeles Clippers and Dejan Tomasevic also announced they were quitting the national squad.
Obradovic blamed the team's "catastrophic play" on his feuding players.
He said Marko Jaric of the Minnesota Timberwolves and Igor Rakocevic of Real Madrid had a fist fight after the loss to France, as did Tomasevic and forward Vladimir Radmanovic of the Seattle SuperSonics.
"The players had bad personal relations, their egos led to this shameful end," Obradovic said. "My mistake was not throwing three or four of them off the team. They hate each other so much that they don't even look at each other. I've never seen such people before."
Asked if he would stay on as head coach, Obradovic said: "That would lead me straight to a madhouse. I'm already ready for an asylum. That's how I feel. I wish my successor lots and lots of luck!"
Tuesday's loss was the third straight setback at a major championship for Serbia-Montenegro, once the dominant power in European basketball. The team finished sixth at the previous European Championship two years ago and 11th at last year's Athens Olympics.
Serbia-Montenegro and the team formerly known as Yugoslavia have won eight European les, but this was the team's worst showing at the Euros since a ninth place finish in 1967.
Serbia-Montenegro, led by five NBA players, had been expected to reach at least the quarterfinals. Instead, the team will not place among the top six European teams that qualify for the World Championship in Japan next year. The Serbs now hope they will get a wild card to be able to defend their le.
Wow!
"The players had bad personal relations, their egos led to this shameful end," Obradovic said. "My mistake was not throwing three or four of them off the team. They hate each other so much that they don't even look at each other. I've never seen such people before."
Asked if he would stay on as head coach, Obradovic said: "That would lead me straight to a madhouse. I'm already ready for an asylum. That's how I feel. I wish my successor lots and lots of luck!"
Here's another one (although I must say the english articles are much more tame than the original Serbian ones - their coach really blew a fuse at yesterday's press conference):
(link)
Serbia and Montenegro coach resigns
Reuters
BELGRADE -- Serbia and Montenegro coach Zelimir Obradovic resigned after the team's 74-71 loss to France at the European basketball championship on Tuesday ended the host nation's hopes of a podium finish.
The defeat means that the Serbs will not be able to defend their world le as the top six from Eurobasket 2005 qualify for next year's world championship in Japan.
The Serbs struggled throughout the preliminary group stage in Novi Sad and lost the elimination game to France in the northern city with a dreadful second half performance to hand their unfancied rivals a berth in the last eight.
"The players have let me down completely, they have let themselves down and they let the whole country down," a bitter Obradovic told reporters after the match.
"Their egoism was their downfall as this group of outstanding individuals failed to blend into a team and produce the top quality basketball they are capable of," he added.
"The team chemistry was poor from the start of the preparation period and their long nights out until the early morning hours certainly didn't help."
The Serbs slumped to a crushing 89-70 defeat by Spain on the opening day before overcoming Israel and Latvia in their preliminary group to advance to the elimination play offs.
They led France 44-35 at halftime on Tuesday but not even a patriotic 10,000 home crowd or the tune of an ancient battlesong played during time outs could lift them past a more athletic and spirited French side.
Serbia and Montenegro has not won a medal under its new name after the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia claimed the gold at the 2002 world championship in Indianapolis.
The Serbs will now have to endure watching their bitter Balkan rivals Slovenia and Croatia contest the final stage of the compe ion in the new Belgrade arena seating 20,000 fans.
"Disaster," said two Belgrade daily papers with identical front page headlines to describe the effects of a basketball giant's decline,
The daily Blic said that the players needed police escort to get away from angry fans as they left Novi Sad in a sombre mood after "failing to live up to expectations and the country's reputation of a basketball superpower."
Obradovic (the coach) among other things said to the press: "These (the players) are the worst people I've ever met!"
It also writes that they were coming at 5am home and oly partying in Belgrade."The players had bad personal relations, their egos led to this shameful end," Obradovic said. "My mistake was not throwing three or four of them off the team. They hate each other so much that they don't even look at each other. I've never seen such people before."
Asked if he would stay on as head coach, Obradovic said: "That would lead me straight to a madhouse. I'm already ready for an asylum. That's how I feel. I wish my successor lots and lots of luck!"
So the Serbs are the Lakers of Europe huh? No wonder Kobe wanted Jaric and Stojakovich.
This is coach Obradovic speaking at the press conference after the match.
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It's in serbian, so I guess this is only interesting to slovenian, croatian and serbian fans but maybe one of them (not me, I'm lazy) can translate some of it. It gives you the picture of serbian players' at ude at this championship.
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