Previewing Serbia from their stats

[boilerzz]

Stats are here (click on basketball, then any game, then team stats, then Serbia):

http://www.fisu.net/results/summer-universiade/29th-summer-universiade-taipei-city-2017-main-results

Not a great shooting team. I'm guessing they like winning ugly. Particularly since they commit more fouls than anyone else. They don't turn the ball over though and get a fair amount of blocked shots.

https://data.2017.gov.taipei/atos/prod/resTP2017/pdf/TP2017/BK/TP2017_BK_C84C_BKM400000.pdf

Individually:

• Dokovic is 7th in the WUG at 16.7 ppg, 8th in assists at 4.7 and 6th in made 3's per game
• Tejic is drawing 5.4 fouls per game (3rd most in WUG).
• Brkic is leading in blocks at 2.5 and Tejic is 9th

 

[02Boilermaker]

It looks like Serbia won the rebounding battle in every game. USA is going to need to do better on the boards than they did against Israel.

Serbia's also shown the ability to close out games down the stretch.
-Tied with Hungary with 3:13 left & won by 8
-Tied with Latvia with 1:43 left & won by 3
-Tied with Mexico with 2:27 left & lost by 6
-Double OT with Finland & won the game on a bucket with with 0:21 left to go from down 1 to up 1.

Should be another good test for our guys!