{"id":486046,"date":"2024-08-06T13:19:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=486046"},"modified":"2024-08-06T13:19:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T17:19:49","slug":"serbia-reaches-olympic-1-2-finals-with-ot-win-vs-australia","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/serbia-reaches-olympic-1-2-finals-with-ot-win-vs-australia\/","title":{"rendered":"Serbia reaches Olympic 1\/2 finals with OT win vs. Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/player\/nikola-jokic\/\">Nikola Jokic<\/a> finished with 21 points and 14 boards, and Serbia came back to defeat Australia 95-90 in overtime to advance to the Olympic basketball \u00bd finals.<\/p>\n<p>Bogdan Bogdanovic notched 17 points for the European country, which came back from a 24-point 1<sup>st<\/sup> half trail to secure a \u00bd final match against either the USA or Brazil.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Nikola Jokic&#39;s DOMINANT performance in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Paris2024<\/a> leads Serbia into the semifinals \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>His near triple-double helped erase a 24-point deficit and secure the OT win! <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 21 PTS | 14 REB | 8 AST | 4 STL \ud83c\uddf7\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XpSLrFZ6vZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/XpSLrFZ6vZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1820834700035838006?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 6, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Serbia is aiming for its 1<sup>st<\/sup> Olympic medal since the 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro, where they finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup>. That was the debut Olympic for a then 21-year-old Nikola.<\/p>\n<p>Bogdan admitted after the match that, at one point, he and his teammates doubted that they would be able to complete a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To speak frankly, we didn&#8217;t keep cool,&#8221; Bogdanovic claimed. &#8220;But we knew we were down, and we needed to find some momentum and rhythm. Australia had the whole momentum during the 1<sup>st<\/sup> half. As I revealed in the past, this is the biggest pressure of the competition \u2013 the \u00bc finals. 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