{"id":458156,"date":"2025-09-03T09:21:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=458156"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T07:21:16","slug":"svetislav-pesic-this-isnt-the-most-important-game-but-a-crucial-test-for-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/svetislav-pesic-this-isnt-the-most-important-game-but-a-crucial-test-for-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Svetislav Pe\u0161i\u0107: This isn\u2019t the most important game, but a crucial test for us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"78\" data-end=\"421\">Svetislav <strong data-start=\"88\" data-end=\"97\">Pe\u0161i\u0107<\/strong> previewed tonight\u2019s clash against <strong data-start=\"132\" data-end=\"142\">Turkey<\/strong> (8:15 PM), with the top spot in Group A of <strong data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"205\">EuroBasket 2025<\/strong> on the line. The Serbian coach made it clear that ambitions remain intact: \u201cThis is not the most important game of the tournament, but it\u2019s our toughest opponent so far. It\u2019s a test to see where we are right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"423\" data-end=\"784\">Pe\u0161i\u0107 also addressed the absence of <strong data-start=\"459\" data-end=\"480\">Bogdan Bogdanovi\u0107<\/strong>: \u201cWe\u2019re not looking for excuses. Every player brings something different, and we\u2019re finding new solutions. Our ambitions don\u2019t change.\u201d On <strong data-start=\"620\" data-end=\"638\">Vasilije Mici\u0107<\/strong>, who picked up a knock against Czechia, he reassured: \u201cHe has the right approach, he\u2019s still integrating, but he will get better game by game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"786\" data-end=\"1000\">Finally, on the highly anticipated duel between <strong data-start=\"834\" data-end=\"869\">Nikola Joki\u0107 and Alperen Sengun<\/strong>, he added: \u201cFans love individual battles, but to win you also need a solid base and team play. We must bring both to the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Svetislav Pe\u0161i\u0107 previewed tonight\u2019s clash against Turkey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":358904,"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":[98,73,30],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-458156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-eurobasket","category-serbia","category-turchia"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/11\/2023mcer08set082.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458156","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=458156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458156"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=458156"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=458156"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=458156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}