Eurobasket 07 - Serbia vs Russia 03/09

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Description: 03 September 2007 Russia Overwhelm Serbia If someone had any doubts about Andrei Kirilenko's performance in this EuroBasket after a sub-par NBA season, then the opening night of EuroBasket sent out a big message. The Russian forward led his team to a key 73-65 win in the tournament's opener against Serbia on Monday night in Granada's Group A game. Kirilenko finished the game with 24 points, 12 rebounds, three assists, three blocks and drew seven fouls, but every play he made was in the best timing to keep his team on the winning side. Serbia had a bad shooting night. Darko Milicic was shutdown by a great defensive team effort by Russia, and was representative of Serbia's poor shooting, connecting on just two of his 13 shots. His front line teammate Zoran Erceg converted only a single free throw shot of his six attempts to symbolize Serbia's poor form from the line (58%). Russia stormed the court from the first moment to take a 9-0 lead after three minutes, before Marko Jaric scored the first points for Serbia. Russia's team play was on display from the very beginning as four players shared the first 11 points of the team. Kirilenko collected seven points by the end of the first quarter when his team took a 21-13 lead, but didn't think about stopping. Serbia couldn't find any answer for the aggressive Russian defense and by the 13th minute David Blatt's guys were already doubling Serbia's points, 31-15 after J.R. Holden connected a mid range shot. That was when the Russian machine took a rest. For the next 5:20 Russia added only three points, all from the charity stripe, but Serbia was still struggling and used that to reduce the game to only 10 points, 34-24. Another small push by Serbia made it just a six point game, before Nikita Morgunov sealed the half with a key mid-range shot, not his last in the game, to make it 38-30 after two quarters. After shooting only 37% from two-point range and a miserable 43% from the line in the first half, Serbia was still down by only eight, and had a reason to be optimistic but the first minutes of the second half changed that feeling. Milos Teodosic hit three points from the line to make it just a five point game, and then Kirilenko stepped up. He accounted for four points in a row, drew the third foul from Zoran Erceg and with a downtown arrow capped a 10-0 run to make it 48-33 after 25 minutes, only to see his team fall asleep again. Teodosic hit another three pointer to start a Serbian 13-0 run, and make it just a two point game, but now it was time for Kirilenko to step up again. With two minutes to go in the third Milan Gurovic missed a three pointer that could have give Serbia the first lead of the night, and saw Kirilenko show how to do it with an and-1 play, and the gap was back to five, 51-46, on the way to a 54-48 Russian lead with 10 minutes to play. With the game slowly running away Serbia made one last effort. Russia held a 70-63 lead with 1:38 to play when Milicic posted up, but once again Kirilenko came for the help and blocked his shot away. Morgunov, once again, was there to hit the clutch shot, this time from long range, to make it a ten point game and decide the game. "If we don't win tomorrow then today's win means nothing," said Russian's coach, David Blatt referring to the game against Israel that can secure Russia a spot in the next round. Serbia will face the champs from Greece in the second game.
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fil86ka ::: Favorites Sou etsoukse johnmarkac e? Gi'auto tn vrizeis!!! Etsi etsi,na sou tsouzei pio polu... 07-09-17 06:55:43 __________________________________________________
Sabljar ::: Favorites Dabogda poginuli svi u ovoj grupi! 07-09-13 15:23:25 __________________________________________________
BOprah69 ::: Favorites lol @ all the players averaging about age 20 for serbia...and then Gurovic 32.. lol Plus Serbia would have won if we had Vladimir Radmanovic,Nenad Krstic,Aleksandar Pavlovic,and Peja Stojakovic..I mean come on...All top players in the NBA!.. lol 07-09-12 19:46:08 __________________________________________________
johnmarkac ::: Favorites holden putin is fucking your mother thats why you are russian otherwise you are a fucking somalian so go back to africa taste some bananas and then break some rocks...malaka 07-09-11 12:41:10 __________________________________________________
johnmarkac ::: Favorites holden i fuck your mother 07-09-11 12:35:59 __________________________________________________
pedja1488 ::: Favorites Србија Русија заувек браћа 07-09-11 07:26:10 __________________________________________________
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vukasinhajin ::: Favorites good game..Russians arent bad in Basketball even tho Serbs are worlds best 07-09-07 20:50:25 __________________________________________________
Arauss ::: Favorites Kirilenko=TItan ! 07-09-06 09:46:15 __________________________________________________