{"id":183501,"date":"2025-07-28T21:33:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/?p=183501"},"modified":"2025-07-28T21:33:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T19:33:07","slug":"serbia-smashed-north-macedonia-young-eagles-qualified-for-the-knockout-phase-of-the-european-basketball-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/serbia-smashed-north-macedonia-young-eagles-qualified-for-the-knockout-phase-of-the-european-basketball-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"SERBIA SMASHED NORTH MACEDONIA: Young Eagles qualified for the knockout phase of the European Basketball Championship!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Serbian U18 basketball team defeated North Macedonia 89:59 in the Belgrade Arena, in the third round of the group stage of the European Championship.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winner was decided in the first quarter, which Serbia, as a big favorite, won 24:8.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By halftime, it was already 49:23, and North Macedonia managed to improve slightly in the third period, even winning it 18:21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serbia easily brought the match to an end without any drama, and will likely secure a place in the round of 16 from the second position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The most efficient player for Serbia was Petar Ostoji\u0107 with 25 points and 14 rebounds, achieving a utility index of 39. Ognjen Srzenti\u0107 also shone with 17 points, six assists, and five rebounds, while Stefan Isailovi\u0107 recorded 15 points. Sa\u0161a Nikitovi\u0107, Serbia&#8217;s head coach, had the opportunity to rest Andrej Lu\u010di\u0107 and Pavle Ba\u010dko, and distribute minutes to the others exactly as he wished.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Group Phase | Serbia v North Macedonia | Full Basketball Game | FIBA U18 EuroBasket 2025\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gqv_net4X0w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For North Macedonia, Nikola Jani\u010dikj was the best with 19 points, while Grigorij Gjorgjevikj had 14 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serbia concluded the group stage with two wins and one loss, but the outcome of the Lithuania \u2013 Greece match is still pending for the final standings. 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By halftime, it was already 49:23, and North Macedonia managed to improve slightly in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2169,"featured_media":183502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[7824,2391,249,7825,91,113],"class_list":["post-183501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-evrobasket-za-mlade","tag-evropsko-prvenstvo","tag-kosarka-2","tag-mlada-kosarkaska-reprezentacija-srbije","tag-sport","tag-srbija","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Serbiantimes.info EN","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183501"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":183511,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183501\/revisions\/183511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/serbiantimes.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}