The victory in the fifth match of the Tokyo Olympics against the world’s strongest 3 × 3 basketball team Serbia was almost in hand, but the Latvian national team has started giving presents, which is why the opponents managed to keep the prefect’s winning and lost balance, Nauris Miezis said after the failure.
It has already been reported that the Latvian 3 × 3 basketball team with Agni Čavars, Nauri Mieze, Kārlis Pauls Lasmanis and Edgars Krūmiņš lost on the fifth game of the Tokyo Olympic Games on Monday.
In the duel of two world leading teams with the result 16:22 Latvia lost to Serbia, suffering the second loss in the tournament.
Miezis, Lasmanis and Čavars each scored five points, but Krūmiņš added one. Dejan Majstorovic, known as Maestro in a 3 × 3 basketball environment, scored half or 11 points in the Serbian national team.
“This game was ours, because in the first minutes we showed that we can take over the game in our hands, but we started to give presents one after another. We also gave away the very end of the game – we presented Christmas presents today, ”Nauris Miezis did not hide his disappointment with the final result. “There was no manege, it disappeared after the first games.”
“It simply came to our notice then. I was the focus on 120 percent, ”adds Miezis.
With three victories in five games, Latvia has retreated to the third place in the group. True, high performance, which will be the first additional indicator after the win / loss balance, maintains hope for second place and an automatic roadmap to the semi-finals.
“It simply came to our notice then. Sport is cruel, ”says Krūmiņš in a conversation with Latvian journalists after the loss. “The next two games are very important and we need to focus even more on them.”
Both basketball players pointed out that the national team does not follow the tournament table, but from time to time “catches the eye” of the competitors’ performance on TV.-
“We will think about tomorrow in the morning. Now we are preparing for tonight’s game, “emphasizes Miezis.
The Latvian team is in the second place in the world rankings, but Serbia is in the first place.
In the second game at 4 pm, the favorites in the match with the unit of the Russian Olympic Committee (OKR) will already be Latvian basketball players.
The rules of the tournament stipulate that all eight teams start the round tournament at the beginning. The top two enter the semi-finals immediately, while the third to sixth place owners start the elimination tournament from the quarter-finals.
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