The cadet national basketball team of BiH made its debut at the World Cup in Spain.
Our golden basketball team headed with their coach Josip Pandza played today their first match against the Dominican Republic and “smashed” them with the score 84:59, thus proving at the opening of the World Cup that they are one of the favorites for the first three places.
Today for BiH performed: Džanan Musa, Lazar Mutić, Srđan Kočić, Vedran Mirković, Emir Bačvić, Adi Alikadić, Sani Čampara, Emir Čerkezović, Aljoša Janković, Drago Cvitanović, Miladin Vlačić and Amer Barukčija.
The first quarter was opened with points of Musa, after which followed points of Mutić and Čerkezović and the Dominican Republic scored its first points after two and a half minutes when Frink scored. We increased the advantage until the end of the first quarter, and we went on break with plus 16, the score was 25: 9.
Dominican Republic opened the second quarter with 4 quick points but then we responded with points of Musa and Mutić and came to plus 18, and the score was 31:13. By the end of the first half, we had 21 points of advantage, and the score was 47:26, and Musa already scored 22 points alone while on the other hand, Rivera score 5.
At the beginning of the second half our selection relaxed a bit, and Dominicans punished them for that with series of 5: 0 for the score 48:33. However, after that, our players started playing their game again, and by the end of the third quarter, our team controlled the result and maintained a safe advantage, and ended the third quarter with a score of 60:39.
Our team opened last quarter very poorly, and our cadet team make a number of mistakes in the organization of the attack. However, Musa proved once again why he is a true greatest talent in European basketball and took everything in his hands. Our team managed to bring the match to an end, and came to a great victory in this match, the first in the World Cup for our selection.
Džanan Musa led our team with 32 points and 10 rebounds, Sani Čampara scored 18, while on the other side, Rivera scored 17 points.
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(Source: Radiosarajevo.ba/Photo: FIBA)
