Overview:
The team has showed a lot of character in this tournament coming from behind to beat Iran and then putting up a fight against Spain going down by 63-73 and then winning their final must win game against Tunisia by 67-64
The Serbian team however has been one of the most dominant teams in the competition winning all their games very convincingly and they are expected to be too good for the Puerto Rico team. Having won their first two group games very easily they even won against Italy which was a tough team by 92-77
Here is a look in the game
Match Timing: September 6, @ 02:00 PM IST
Venue – Wuhan Gymnasium, in Wuhan, China
Capacity- 13,000
Puerto Rico –
They are going into this game as a must win game and will be relying on players like Jorge Bryan Diaz and Alexander Franklin to produce the goods and Devon Collier and Gian Clavell to come off the bench and impact the game in the way they did against spain.
Puerto Rico squad for the World Cup:
Puerto Rico: Isaiah Pineiro, Ramon Clemente, Devon Collier, Gary Browne, Jorge Bryan, Angel Rodriguez, Gian Clavell, David Huertas, Renaldo Balkman, Alexander Franklin, Christopher Brady, Javier Mojica
The Serbian team is also fully fit and available and would like to continue their winning ways with Bogdan Bogdanovic and Vasilie Micic expected to make a big impact from the starting lineup and Nemanja Bjelica expected to be impressive from the bench
Stefan Bircevic, Nikola Milutinov, Vasilije Micic, Marko Guduric, Stefan Jovic, Boban Marjanovic, Nikola Jokic, Marko Simonovic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Nemanja Bjelica, Vladimir Lucic, Miroslav Raduljica
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PUR – Gary Browne, David Huertas, Isaiah Pinerio, Renaldo Balkman, Jorge Diaz
SER – Nikola Jokic, Stefan Bircevic, Vladimir Lucic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Stefan Jovic
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Serbia –
Nikola Jokic
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 23:51
Points – 15
Assists – 4
Rebounds – 6
Bogdan Bogdanovic
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 35:41
Points – 35
Assists – 5
Rebounds – 4
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Puerto Rico –
Gary Browne
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 27:31
Points – 9
Assists – 8
Rebounds – 4
David Huertas
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 26:34
Points – 10
Assists – 0
Rebounds – 2
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PUR vs SER Dream11 Predictions:
The game is expected to be a one sided one and Serbia are expected to win the game.