Calculations for Rio: There is only one option to avoid USA until the final!

Basketball players of Serbia got their opponents after the drawing on the Olympic games. They will play against "Dream Team" in group, but there will probably be harder work in the quarterfinals, more than if they ended up in group B.

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"Eagles" can rest up for 5 days, and then new "hell" awaits in the training camp on Kopaonik (15-25 July) before going to Rio.

Yet, they will have time to think about the group rivals and the plan to reach the quarterfinals, then the semifinals, and to avoid American "Dream Team" on the way, there is only one option.

Foto: Marko Todorović

Basketball players of Serbia have to avoid ending up in the third place in the group A. Only in that situation they will miss the "Dream Team", considering that the Americans take the first place in the group, which is expected.

Tournament in Rio starts on 6th August and will last till 21st August. And the relief is that the games are played every other day, in comparison with European and world championships where they are played each day.

Foto: Marko Todorović

GROUPS:

Group A: Serbia, France, USA, Venezuela, China, Australia

Group B: Argentina, Spain, Brasil, Lithuania, Croatia, Nigeria.

Quarterfinals:

A1 - B4 - pair 31

A2 - B3 - pair 32

B1 - A4 - pair 33

B2 - A3 - pair 34

Semifinals:

pair 32 - pair 33

pair 31 - pair 34

(Telegraf.co.uk)