Modern Yugoslavia National Team

[Black Urum]

What if Yugoslavia had never been broken down to pieces? How would their National Team look now?



I will try to include the best players from former Yugoslavian Nations and then try to pick the best 12 to make a squad... (obviously I won't include retired players or players who regularly avoid NTs...)



Serbia



Teodosic

Krstic

Tepic

Macvan

Velickovic

Raduljica

Bjelica

Rakocevic

Keselj

Tripkovic

Erceg

Markovic

B. Popovic

etc...



Croatia



Ukic

Planinic

M. Popovic

Tomas

Tomic

Delas

Loncar

Kasun

Vujcic

etc...



Slovenia



Smodis

Lorbek

Lakovic

Becirovic

Dragic

Udrih

Nachbar

Slokar

Vidmar

Jagodnik

Brezec

etc...



Montenegro



Pekovic

Dasic

Vranes

Drobnjak

Dragicevic

etc...



Bosnia and Herzegovina



Bajramovic

etc...



FYROM



Gecevski

Antic

etc...



PG: Teodosic, Udrih, Dragic

SG: Rakocevic, Tomas

SF: Bjelica, Nachbar

PF: Lorbek, Velickovic, Macvan

C: Pekovic, Krstic



Reserves: Tepic, Raduljica, Keselj, Tripkovic, Erceg, Markovic, B. Popovic, Planinic, Ukic, Tomic, M. Popovic, Delas, Loncar, Kasun, Vujcic, Dasic, Vranes, Drobnjak, Dragicevic, Bajramovic, Gecevski, Antic



I think this team would be the favourites for the gold medal in 2010 World Championship

[stefans]

Nice roster <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> For sure they will smash American Dream team with Bryant,James and others....

[Led00]

That would be the hell of a team! I would love to c them play together! <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Sagenas]

IMHO, stupid thread. If right now there could be only Yugoslavia then would be different basketball schools, different teams. Say, do you think,you could have sucha teams like they are now? Everything would be different. It's like we say "If Jasikevičius will play in our NATIONAL TEAM and Macijauskas won't be retired, we will crush every other team". IMHO, there's no point for threads like this.

[straight forward]

[quote name='Black Urum' date='11 August 2010 - 10:25 PM' timestamp='1281554717' post='24181']

PG: Teodosic, Udrih, Dragic

SG: Rakocevic, Tomas

SF: Bjelica, Nachbar

PF: Lorbek, Velickovic, Macvan

C: Pekovic, Krstic



I think this team would be the favourites for the gold medal in 2010 World Championship

[/quote]



SF would be not convincing. I really looking forward to see what Bjelica will bring to the table in WC and Euroleague because he seemed to be hyped as Rubio or some other super talent lately, basically I'm not convinced yet he has that material (we'll see), but both Nachbar and Bjelica wouldn't be my pick for a team that should be a contender for the gold in WC. Other positions look sweat, though I would like to see some already proven top class PF after Lorbek.

[lord_slawe_]

Sasa Vujacic, Mirza Teletovic..



You can imagine how many times this has been topic on numerous forums I've been reading..

And conclusions were about the same - world domination <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /> <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

[Black Urum]

Nice to know I'm not the only one coming with such "stupid threads" <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Vujacic? He isn't good enough to make it to Slovenia NT, would he make it to Yugoslavia NT?



Totally forgot about Teletovic... but then again plenty of PFs to choose from...