Olympic basketball in Paris saw an epic men’s semi-final match, where the big-name team of the United States narrowly defeated Serbia.
Thursday saw one of the all-time matches in Olympic basketball history, where the NBA star-studded USA men’s team rallied from a 13-point deficit to a four-point victory over Serbia, 95-91, in the final period.
In the final ten minute period, the USA was outscored 32-15 and went up LeBron James’s with a triple double (16/12/10s) and Stephen Curry’s With 36 points for the final match to be played on Saturday at 22:30.
Tournament hosts France inflicted their first defeat on world champions Germany since their Euro 2022 semi-final defeat. The men’s final of the Tokyo Olympics will be held in Paris. In 2021, the USA beat France 87–82 in the final.
The United States played the final period practically with five James, Curry, Joel Embiid (19/4), Kevin Durant (9/3) and Devin Booker (6 points).
Serbia, which had lost to the United States by 26 points, 84-110, in the semi-final played surprisingly well for a long time and tormented the United States, who took the lead for the first time at the end, 87-86, with Curry’s three-pointer with 3:21 left in the game.
Serbian Nikola Jokic had to play the last minutes with four fouls and your balance in the match was 17/5/11s. Bogdan Bogdanovic (20/4) and Aleksa Avramovic (15/5/3s) also excelled as the team’s scorers.
France, which still played poorly at times in the opening series, lost to Germany by 14 points in the opening series, surprised by Gordon Herbert piloted by Germany, thanks to its strong defensive game, by numbers 73–69.
The French, who previously performed well in the Canadian quarter-finals, are playing in Europe Guerschon Yabusele (17/7) and Isaiah Cordinier (16/7) played a big role for the winners. Victor Wembanyama size 11/7/4s/3bl.
In the initial series Franz Wagner and Dennis Schroeder each scored 26 points against France, but in the semi-final the German star duo scored only 28 points in total.
The bronze medal game between Germany and Serbia will take place on Saturday at 12 noon.