HOW VLADE DIVAC & CO STUNNED TEAM USA

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[@labbgbomba]

Germany - Spain from the European Championship 2005

[@andrijaveljkovic9285]

You're underestimating Svetislav Pešić, before that he won the European Champions League and as soon as he took over the national team, the European Championship, where Divac didn't even play. Bodiroga never wanted to play in the NBA because he doesn't like the style of basketball where the game is based on athletic ability rather than technique. That's what Jokić is doing now. And at the last World Cup, Serbia beat the USA by 15 points.

[@MrDejan979]

1995 Lithuania Yugoslavia

[@PIP...33]

OBVIOUSLY YOU ARE DERANGED BECAUSE ANDRE MILLER LED NBA IN DIMES THOSE YEARS, REGGIE AND JERMAIN WAS IN FINALS, BOSTON PIERCE WAS IN EASTERN FINALS, FINLEY WAS TOP 2 SG IN ERA, BEN WALLACE DPOY BEST DEFENDER. ALSO DIVAC IS 5X BETTER THAN JOKIC

[@PIP...33]

BODIROGA TOWEL WAS REVENGE WHAT MILLER DID 1996 FIGHT IN FINALS VS YUGOSLAVIA OBVIOUSLY YALL KNOW NOTHING BOUT SPORT

[@theriseofnikas]

Famous Stojakovic statement for live tv camera after winning Mundobasket was:"I just want to thank all night clubs in Belgrade for gave us good and quality preparations..."😅

[@markogvozdenovic4396]

😂

[@dekik.979]

They were definitely not suffering from jet leg 😅

[@tonijelecevic9238]

Dallas legend

[@boza5684]

Just for the sake of younger viewers, this "Yugoslavia" is actually made up of players from Serbia and Montenegro. Without Macedonia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia. That Yugoslavia had the population of half the city of New York, and that's why Lithuania and Serbia are the most basketball-playing countries in the world when you take into account their size, number of inhabitants...

[@netoserbia]

That is true, but 12/12 players from 2002. roster was Serbians. The year before, in Eurobasket 2001, there was one player from Montenegro - Vlado Šćepanović. That was probably most dominant FR Yugoslavia team ever.

[@stefangnjatic7233]

​@@netoserbiaDrobnjak is from Montenegro

[@netoserbia]

@@stefangnjatic7233 He is born there, but he considered himself as a Serb. As far as I know, he lives in Belgrade.

[@antoniosvlachodimos8450]

North Macedonia βρε γαβ γαβ

[@ВладимирПеришић]

​@@stefangnjatic7233But Drobnjak hadn't played in two the most important games - against USA and Argentina. Just Serbs were playing.

[@nusproizvodjach]

One of the happiest memories of my life. Not to mention NATO bombed us just 3 years prior. So you might imagine what this game meant to us...

[@emhtptc]

Yep - our little “poetic justice”

[@Марко_Ник]

​@@emhtptc; Поздрав, Regards. Absolutely.

[@Марко_Ник]

Поздрав, Regards. Whole country was on the streets from joy and happiness. Celebrating world title.

[@borisvukovic7813]

It amazes me how much you know about basketball, especially Serbian basketball players and culture. Thank you for a great video

[@karoliskanapickas9492]

lithuanian guys basketball geeks :D we know alot

[@mangodzeri6613]

@@karoliskanapickas9492 Lithuanians live basketball!

[@dodalovic]

I can't believe how knowledgeable you guys are! Greetings from Yugoslavia 😅

[@fthesehandles]

Just a note on coach Kari Pešić, the relationship between Divac and him stems from the Yugoslavia U19 team, which won the the world cup back in ‘87 when it was still the old country with a scary roster (Divac, Kukoč, Radja, Djordjević, etc..). Pešić was their coach, not Vlade’s coffee maid in Sacramento.

[@IsterivacGamadi]

True story 🤘

[@pathfinder2reality]

I remember the mayhem in Belgrade after this win that just went to delirium after the win against ARG in the finals. Good times

[@aleksandarbozo1029]

I love this channel. Greetings from Serbia. BTW, I feel that Serbia and Lithuania are connected with this love of Basketball... After Serbia, Lithuania is the team that I follow and cheer for. Shine on guys, you have great channel

[@markogvozdenovic4396]

I remember matches from 90s, was s kid back then and really 'hated' Lithuanian basketball team, Marciulionis, Sabonis, my God, the team was scary.. it was a big rivalry between us. Now, really love to see when Lithuania wins! Respect.

[@zdravoralehellofred8078]

Only two big basketball, yet small in number nations are 🇱🇹 🇷🇸. This guys remind me so much of many people, my friends,neighbors, when we talk about basketball, knowledgeable, good arguments are thrown out and they are probably (little) calmer than us, maybe because of YT. I guess they are all very good on 3 on 3 as well, something that we still cherish a lot. As Sale said, as long as I hear that sound of 3 on 3, basket, on concrete, in my hood, every hood, I'm not afraid for our basketball. Very true. Cheers guys.

[@agnezabarutanski1963]

Let's be precise, this Yugoslavia was basically Serbia with some additions from Montenegro. Croatia had it's moments in the nineties, but as a national team totally plumetted afterwards, Slovenia didn't fully emerge until Dragić and Dončić exploded on Eurobasket 2017, but Serbia has been consistantly good at major tournaments, to say the least. This was golden Serbian generation, every player was world class, and my favorite of them all, Bodiroga, was out-of-this-world class.

[@milutinitc4937]

I will be more precise. Montenegro is just one more state of Serbs. Dragić is Serbian, and Luka is 1/2 Serbian (better half). Croats....Born to lose.

[@agnezabarutanski1963]

@@milutinitc4937 Montenegro is just one more state that Serbs like you claim to be a state of Serbs, and just another state, after Kosovo, that will be void of Serbs due to Serbs like you. Croats are born to lose, you say? It would seem that you are really begging for word 'tractor' to be mentioned in a harmless basketball conversation, ain't you?

[@innosanto]

Yugoslavia was both Serbia and Croatia and some additions from Montenegro and Slovenia. So there was also Vrankovic, Komazec, Radja, Petrovic, Kukoc from Croatia and others, Paspalje from Montenegro, Zdovts from Slovenia.

[@agnezabarutanski1963]

@@innosanto That was pre-war Yugoslavia. My comment was related to post-2000 Yugoslavia.

[@MrDuncanquasar]

I live in NW Indiana/Chicagoland area and we have a large Serbian population here. I think many of them were at these games and created a great atmosphere. There is even a street nearby my house that is named after Vlade Divac!

[@protke]

holy crap Divac has a street in the states?!? :D

[@MrDuncanquasar]

@NikolaJokerMVP15 Cool!

[@MrDuncanquasar]

@@protke yep

[@MladenMisic-f2j]

This is the most emotional game for me i watched in my life.Great job guys.Cheers from Grobari!

[@emhtptc]

Same for me - a life defining moment

[@toda9237]

Thank you very much for this! And Serbia were back to back world champions winning it in 1998 and than in 2002 just for the record. All the best! 😀

[@loonaya]

Good video, I love you guys and this channel. As a fellow Serbian basketball lover I appreciate what you do and have a lot of respect for Lithuanian basketball. Wish Augustas was here as well. Just one thing. The Divac - Pešić thing with the coffee and them getting to know each other sounded very interesting and romantic but not entirely true. Maybe the coffee part is true (I doubt) heheh, but the two of them knew each other from before, and knew each other probably too well. Svetislav Pešić coached Yugoslavian youth national teams that won basically everything from 1984 to 1987, culminating in World Championship gold medal in 1987 in Borneo, and that was a crazy good generation that included Vlade Divac, Aleksandar Đorđević, Toni Kukoč, Dino Rađa and some other excellent but not so legendary players. They slept, breathed, ate and trained with Pešić every single day for a couple of months non stop on some mountains every year cursing Pešić for extremely hard practices. So they knew each other too well, the issue was probably if Divac as a 34 years old NBA player was willing to put up again with that shit.

[@sandijerman6422]

Guys, I'm a journalist and first thing first: you are doing much much better game analysis than most NBA commentators. Respect. I really like the comment "... there was a guy, called Arvydas..." 👍The only thing that is missing in this video has in fact nothing to do with sport. Serbia was bombed by USA in 1999 and the serbian basketball team in 2002 made akind of 'the sport revenge of the millenium' by beating the USA & then winning the world cup on the american soil. And not anywhere on the 'enemy' ground, but right in the hart - in Indianapolis, the home of USA and all global basketball.

[@modded321]

Hvala vam, that youre watching this

[@eddiewrathchild2016]

You guys are pronouncing Serbian names pretty damn excellent.

[@id2538]

Well informed, interesting guys, who love basketball. Keep up the good work. Best regards from Serbia

[@Reds1848]

Eurobasket 1997 --- Yugoslavia - Croatia 64-62 was very interesting too 😁

[@darkokostic2382]

Just info about the Radmanovic. He was a part of Yugoslavia team that tournament. Pesic just banned him somewhere before Quarterfinals because of discipline issues. Great to watch your content guys, keep it up! Go Partizan!

[@neon_and_concrete]

Pešić threw him out of the locker room because he was eating a banana while he was talking. Or so the story goes...

[@markoholclajtner7598]

​@@neon_and_concreteYes, I heard it too, about eating banana and not paying attention to Peshic talks.

[@markogvozdenovic4396]

​@@neon_and_concrete😂 yeah, the story goes like that.. it's really funny story, taking into consideration that Pešić is involved, he is really nervous-temper guy, ludi Kari

[@tomislavjancar7754]

Respect from Serbia you guys have huge knowledge.... That's because 🇱🇹 & 🇷🇸 love the real game nothing else... 🇺🇸 Just got love for the show

[@nikolakatanic]

I remember this game. It was like at 3AM in here, the whole country went out on streets to celebrate in the middle of the night.. It was very emotional because it happened after long sanctions to Yugoslavia organized by USA actually.

[@ГеоргийМихайлович-ж6ц]

TNX guys, greetings from Serbia.

[@alexaradanov]

Much appreciated guys 💪🏻

[@praachmw3389]

MI IMAMO SVOGA BOGA IME MU JE BODIROGA!!!!

[@netoserbia]

Fun fact: Puerto Rico pulled off a shocker by beating Spain and Yugoslavia (Serbia basically) ending first in the group stage, and than another shock - Argentina beat USA. That's why Yug and USA played this mach in the quarterfinals instead of the finals.

[@ljubastojanovic608]

Argentina beating USA was not shock at all if

[@ljubastojanovic608]

Argentina beating USA was not shock at all if You know the Argentina roaster at that time. They were simply better. And Yugoslavia won the final grace of Bodiroga mental strenght in last minutes. As Serbian I always felt deep respect for that Argentina team as well as Lituanian team in 90s

[@netoserbia]

​@@ljubastojanovic608 it wasn't a shock if you had knew the Argentina roaster at that time, but it was shock just because it was the first defeat ever since NBA professionals have been playing ('don't count '98. because of lockout)

[@ljubastojanovic608]

@@netoserbia That is exactly my point. If you look at Yugoslavia roaster for Argentina 1990. every one knowing anything about basketball knew that only NBA selection could be better. Instead, USA selected, as usually, best not NBA players and then on Good will games in USA few weeks before Argentina that team was easy beaten by Yugoslavia two times. Only then they concluded that next time, in 1992 OG in Barcelona USA must have DReam team, composed of best NBA players. But for 2002 WC they again started to think that NBA is so superior that USA should only to select few great players, several good players and couple of young players to be dominant. The result was not shock but reality, that selection was not good enough for Argentina, Yugoslavia and Spain, Lithuania. Today, if you organize match USA NBA against "foreign" NBA players maybe you will find again some people to be shocked by result, But if you look at roasters and if you know which players were NBA MVP,s lately....

[@netoserbia]

@@ljubastojanovic608 You are absolutely right, but I have to correct you - NBA players were not allowed to play for the USA (or any other country) until Barcelona in 1992. It was only after the NBA adopted some rules and after an agreement was reached with FIBA that made that possible. In essence, the trigger was the defeat against the USSR in 1988. Olympics, and with the great contribution of Bora Stanković at the head of FIBA.

[@tazmanyu]

Just a couple of takes from my side. You guys have great content. Keep doing what you're doing. Regarding Divac - one of the nicest and most fun basketball persona ever. First time hearing that someone has bad vibes from him / fears him. And about the game - I believe that I never saw someone playing this bad as Jaric did for this game. Still gives me a pain in the stomach till this day when I watch this. Great player in general but for this game we would be better off, without him. He almost cost us this game. Irony is that when the game was near the end, on the line, he capt his composure and ended it with a 3 pointer, an assist for a 3p, and 4 points from the free throws. 🙂🙃

[@drinabezfiltera5958]

but he was incredibly in defense. people tend to forget that he was best defensive playmaker at the time and just because of 1v1 defense but because he could switch with everyone and guard PF's and centers really well. So, all in all his contributions was really big...

[@changes3958]

Respect 🇱🇹🤝🇷🇸🇲🇪

[@dulejmani]

Pesic coached Divac in Yugoslavia under 19 team that won fiba 1987 fiba under 19 championship. Due to that relationship Divac decided to play. I can guaranty that he didn't cook coffee every morning for anyone except his wife. Sex, droga Bodiroga is a song and we have only one god is the same song

[@srdjandojcinovic5106]

Yugoslavia v Lithuania -FIBA EuroBasket 1995..pls this video..its iconic

[@DjordjeStanic]

Guys, you make good comments about the game and you have good knowledge about all Serbian (Yugoslavian) players. Great video. Greetings from Serbia! Yugoslavia - Argentina / final game from 2002 is another great game!

[@nikolatrbojevic8042]

About the Pešić gum thing. It wasn't about how he is feeling about your individual game, it is about how nervous he is. If the strech is short he is not nervous if ilthe strech of the gum is long he is extremely nervous.

[@nicolaszamichiei7370]

I remember this game and Milan Gurovic performance. I love that player !!! Another game with Serbia I'd like to see is the one lost against France in Novi Sad (Eurobasket 2005). And without national teams, the 1992 Euroleague final Partizan vs Joventut Badalona

[@jobul2444]

Quel match,cette finale !!!

[@demetriosarcolakis4821]

One of my favourite teams ever

[@poorto999]

Good stuff for older generation and for younger ,keep it up fellas

[@radovanprstojevic1060]

You guys did your homework perfectly. Respect! 🙌

[@srdjanmandic4486]

Fantastic knowledge of all 3! Respect for LTU basketball from Serbia.

[@milan4383]

Thank you for that Video my brother 💪🏻🫡🇷🇸🏀

[@michaeljovanovic8546]

Really enjoyed the video, and not just because of the team shown :-) Would love to see more retro games

[@deki8530]

Great video.Im really amazed how good informed u are about our basketball. I watch this game every year at least once 😂

[@tolis_hua9614]

Bodiroga ☘

[@Bozha_Kapetanovic91]

I remember, my whole family was watching this and this was like late in night *Serbia time : )

[@jebestakonesto]

Guys, greetings from Jugoslavija, Rytas is right, before Jokic was Divac, before was Arvydas, and before was Kresimir Cosic

[@ivanstojanovic621]

Great video, that was an awesome game I remember watching it on TV in live broadcast, I was full of emotions whole day after that. Next game you can do USA vs Greece 2006 World championship

[@BasketNews_com]

We actually have already watched that one 😊 Check it out here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pXrEapmGfMqIabM

[@032BARABA032]

Marko Jaric signed Adriana Lima 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 👌👌👌👌

[@ingeniusum]

Hey boys...you make a great job. Respect!

[@blaxican4ny]

Wow! First of all great comments guys! One basketball junkie to all of you!

[@ciogon-bes6658]

Re watch this matches is such a good idea, keep it up guys... Greetings from Chile

[@acceptpapara]

I remember that game. I stopped studying for my finals to watch it and was so hyped . Predrag Stojakovic all the way ! !

[@macipecki]

great video and great comments urbonas!

[@pashapasovski5860]

Divac is the coolest person on the planet!

[@notoriousam7405]

good job guys

[@panajotov]

I used to see Jaric at rave parties in Belgrade during early 2000's. And it wouldn't even be in ViP area, just mingling with us mere mortals. Good times.

[@KappoDB]

Wow, you guys really know your history... Great video

[@milansilic8024]

Great job guys. Greetings from Novi Sad. Respect for the correct pronunciation of names btw.

[@pathfinder2reality]

Can you guys do the analysis of Euro Championship '95 finals between Yugoslavia and Lithuania. For me it was the best, most intense finals in history. Sabonis, Marculionis were on fire, while Djordjevic on the other side played the game of his life. Before the match, greek press started spreading rumors that the tournament is rigged in favour of YUG, that FIBA President at that time Bora Stankovic, who was a Serb, is involved...( GR lost to YUG in semifinals) This created so much drama, accusations of rigged game and that referees were somehow favouring YUG team while the rowdy greek crowd overwhelmingly suported Litvanian team. It would be interesting to hear your opinion.

[@slobodankarapandzic3018]

Pešić was great coach even before 2002 Divac was known for shooting 3 s even before NBA

[@Brave2standalone]

Marko Jaric's father Srecko was my favorite player - he player for the "Romantics', Belgrade. He was known for his trickery with the ball by spinning it and passing a la Jokic. I remember once he threw the ball between the opposing center's wide spread legs with so much 'spin' the ball actually returned - while the center turned around searching for it! He wasn't a team player and was undisciplined but was fun to watch. He could have actually played for the Harlem Globetrotters if he wasn't white.

[@ObelixCMM]

Organizers are at fault for empty seats, they sold tickets for two game blocks not a single game. Even for the finals, with same ticket you could watch Germany - New Zealand and Yugoslavia - Argentina. Interesting fact, Marco Pesic son of Svetislav Pesic, current Serbia coach and Yugoslavia at the time, played for Germany and all Serbs cheered for Germany in 3rd place game.

[@Čangrizavi_Cinik]

1980's where the peak of Yugoslavia. When they had all countries still there. Croats with Dražen Petrović.

[@mpam002]

you can show the final of that tournament between argentina and yugoslavia.Argentina had an amazing team back then.What a team. totally deserve the golden but the referees had different opinion.At least they took the golden medal in 2004 olympics.

[@EVANGELOSS54]

Main thing is that probably every player on the Plavi team had at least one relative or friend who was killed by the Nato/US bombardments ... so it was kinda personal

[@serbonaapplications2149]

All Serbs and 2-3 montenegrian Serbs - so 100% Serbs ❤🇷🇸

[@vladimirjanjusevic]

You guys know your shit... Greetings from Serbia.

[@dz4051]

Watch Panathinaikos vs Cska 2009 final and Panathinaikos vs Barcelona 2011 game 5,best atmosphere ever

[@dariusvaitkeliunas5634]

OH MY GOD !!! Rytis, put on some t-shirt with sleeves, it's too dangerous walking with those guns😁😁😁

[@johnsnow04]

Actually, Pesic saw Radmanovic eating a banana on practice. He found that disrespectful and removed him from team. Its a very famous incident. Radmanovic didnt get the medal because of that.

[@XTCgr]

Please review Greece vs USSR in 1987

[@johndeesnotebook5790]

Best time of my childhood

[@StevanSRB]

By now we know that Jokic will not be playing, as well as Micic. So I would be surprised if we even get any medal to be honest. Greetings from Serbia.

[@airvlad777]

Thank you.

[@Geratovic83]

Serbia planet for itself of all time basketball team! 3on3 also world champs! Best on planet of all times!

[@MegaSmooth99]

This was the one and only game that Vlade Divac did not smoke cigarettes before the game of that day.

[@shodown76]

Mi imamo jednog boga ime mu je Bodiroga

[@vukmirkovic2567]

What a game was this, and celabrate in Serbia, you cant imagine, thx for clip. ;)

[@ktw5141]

dont follow basketball much especially not European basketball but I enjoy your videos a lot

[@ΡΑΦΑΗΛΙΩΑΝΝΙΔΗΣ-ν9δ]

Argentina-USA 2004 Olympics would be a good idea, but if you want a World Cup game i think an interesting one would be Yugoslavia-Argentina in 2002 final or Argentina-Spain in 2006 semi-final

[@PejaBog]

Ahh yes the famous Yugoslavian towel trick...to confuse your opponents .😂

[@andrijanascepanovic2126]

19:10 KP before KP's iconic shot

[@partizanbeograd5762]

Kako je isla ona pjesma...svako se plasi nasih kosarkasa...oj ha ha Jugoslavijaaaaa... . Partizan Champion

[@mangodzeri6613]

14:01 THE BOSS

[@dusanblagotic9776]

The reason Bodiroga went to use Miller's towel was Miller disrespecting coach Obradovic at the 1996 Olympics. @BasketNews

[@00cypress]

in your house-peđa stojaković

[@3tp]

OK. I'm less than a minute in and I already know you all need a table so I don't have to see Jayson Tatum's goofy white socks, too small shorts and beat up adidas. But I love that there is a channel dedicated to European hoops.

[@slobodankarapandzic3018]

Divac was first major player from europe in NBA He plays first with Magic in Lakers They played final against Bulls He was traded for Kobe

[@boskesm]

dream team dream on! :D

[@Invest4Cashflow]

I remember the game

[@DrSanto91]

I am a celtics fan, i was stunned when this 2002 usa team lost but i had that feeling they were not good enough and because of how the games at 2000 olympics were, they got cocky and forgot what happened in those games. Plus USA was lucky France or lithuania were not in this fiba world championship.

[@nenadireland]

Well if you haven't done it yet then you surely MUST do Yugoslavia v Lithuania in Athens in 1995.

[@Марко_Ник]

Поздрав, Regards. Great video, laughing, knowledge and energy 😅 It would be nicer if you nust mentioned after your words :"Yugoslavia wich is no country any more" - just to add that it was Serbia and Montenegro territory now. Nothing more to add. Cheers from Serbia land of basketball 🏀🇷🇸

[@SomePJOkid]

I shot three rounds in the air after that win

[@Stardumz]

He made Reggie look like his towel boy. That's the truth. :)

[@keyboardwarrior2]

Thats why Divac will be bigger legend than jokic

[@nebojsak]

Check Svetislav Pesic accolades 20 years before this game

[@elfsquid6444]

No joke bodiroga went to my school

[@playstationjams6948]

Pedja Stojaković Serbian Sniper 🇷🇸 💪💪💪💪

[@cyndfire]

I would love to see you breakdown Canadas moves on their national rooster and what do you think about it? CA dreamteam will be in shambles or dominate?

[@markojovanovic5165]

They also bombed Serbian and Montenegro 3 years before

[@civotamuaz5781]

Sex drugs Bodiroga, ah yes this is a certified hood classic.

[@gordanbogdanovic5473]

pesic cut off one of the best players wright before the world cup, just because he was eating banana while he was talking in the locker room, so saying that pesic did not have the authority and that he was making coffee for divac and that made him coach is a non sence, he came to the team as a well established coach, winning the eurocup with germany, and already being one of the best coaches in europe, also this was already smaller yugoslavia (only serbia and montenegro)