{"id":456117,"date":"2025-08-22T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=456117"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:27:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:27:15","slug":"svetislav-pesic-everyone-deserves-the-eurobasket-but-lets-stay-realistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/svetislav-pesic-everyone-deserves-the-eurobasket-but-lets-stay-realistic\/","title":{"rendered":"Svetislav Pe\u0161i\u0107: Everyone deserves the EuroBasket, but let\u2019s stay realistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"73\" data-end=\"371\">Serbia head coach <strong data-start=\"91\" data-end=\"110\">Svetislav Pe\u0161i\u0107<\/strong> was pleased with his team\u2019s dominant 106\u201372 win over Slovenia in their final pre-EuroBasket test, but urged caution. \u201cLet\u2019s speak realistically and not get carried away. Everyone says we\u2019re favorites, but there are six to eight medal contenders,\u201d Pe\u0161i\u0107 stated.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"373\" data-end=\"762\">On <strong data-start=\"376\" data-end=\"394\">Vasilije Mici\u0107<\/strong>, who returned to the court despite lingering issues, Pe\u0161i\u0107 commented: \u201cHe gave what he could. We\u2019ll see how he feels in the next few days. The important thing is that he\u2019s pain-free.\u201d He also emphasized the challenges of the preparation period: \u201cWe missed one more game. Some players lost rhythm after long breaks. We relied on science and testing to get them ready.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"764\" data-end=\"984\">Pe\u0161i\u0107 confirmed the <strong data-start=\"784\" data-end=\"823\">final roster will be announced soon<\/strong>, adding, \u201cEveryone has earned the right to be on this team.\u201d Serbia will open <strong data-start=\"902\" data-end=\"921\">EuroBasket 2025<\/strong> on <strong data-start=\"925\" data-end=\"958\">Wednesday, August 27 at 20:15<\/strong>, against Estonia in Riga.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"986\" data-end=\"1021\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serbia head coach Svetislav Pe\u0161i\u0107 was pleased with his team\u2019s dominant 106\u201372 win over Slovenia in their final pre-EuroBasket test, but urged caution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":401063,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[377,297],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-456117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-serbia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/08\/Pesic.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456117"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=456117"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=456117"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=456117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}