南斯拉夫在分裂前一直都是世界篮坛的一支劲旅并多次在世界大赛中夺魁,后南斯拉夫解体为塞尔维亚、克罗地亚、斯洛文尼亚、波斯尼亚和黑塞哥维那,马其顿及黑山六国。很明显这些国家都继承了前南人的篮球天赋,而塞尔维亚和克罗地亚更是个中翘楚,他们纷纷闯入到本届世锦赛的淘汰赛中,这也是两个国家独自建立自己的篮球队后第一次在世锦赛的大赛中碰面。比赛要比想象中进行得激烈,塞尔维亚人凭借老道的大赛经验在比赛刚开始的时候就先发制人,球队核心人物科斯蒂奇在开场的一记内线扣篮拉开了进攻序幕,不过克罗地亚人没有慌乱,他们凭借出色的前场篮板频频在外围投射三分得手,而塞尔维亚在打出了一波开场高潮后居然迅速步入了低潮,当家后卫特奥多西奇连续三分失手,反倒是对手抓住机会一举反超了比分并扩大了领先的优势。到第一节结束的时候克罗地亚以27比19领先了塞尔维亚8分之多。 Yugoslavia has always been a powerful player in world basketball before the division and won many world championships. After the dissolution of Yugoslavia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro. Obviously these countries have inherited the basketball skills of the former South Koreans. Serbia and Croatia are even more outstanding. They all broke into this World Championships knockout match. This is also the first after the two countries established their own basketball team Times met in the World Championships contest. Competition than the imagined fierce, the Serb by virtue of seasoned competition experience at the beginning of the game pre-emptive, the team’s core figure Kostic opened in the opening inside-line dunk kicked off the attack, but the Croatian did not panic , With their excellent offensive rebounds frequently peripheral third shot succeeded, and Serbia played a wave of opening implosion actually quickly into a downturn, when the defender Teodosic missed three consecutive points, but on the other hand to seize The chance to surpass the score in one fell swoop and expand the leading edge. By the end of the first quarter, Croatia had ahead of Serbia by 27 to 19 points.