The big victory was 34 points without any solution! Jokic s chance to win the European Championship: 22-year-old star rises to become a perfect match

With a 106-72 victory over the Slovenian men's basketball team in the sixth warm-up match, the Serbian men's basketball team achieved six consecutive victories in this year's warm-up match, including defeating the German men's basketball team and the Greek men's basketball team. Jokic's Serbian men's basketball team led by Jokic became the number one favorite to win the European Championship. Ranked first in the current European Championship strength list. In the past two years, the Serbian men's basketball team has won 15 consecutive victories against European teams. The last time he lost to a European team was in the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup final, and Jokic did not participate at that time. Now, Jokic leads the team to launch an attack on his first European Championship trophy in his career. The showdown between the two superstars Jokic and Doncic is not as fierce as many people expected, just because the strength of the Serbian men's basketball team is indeed higher than that of Slovenia. The Slovenian men's basketball team has passed their golden age. Since Golan Dragic retired, the team's combat effectiveness has gradually declined, and there are no outstanding talents among the younger generation of players.

Serbian men's basketball team Jokic and Bogdan Bogdanovic are still in good shape, while Heat star Nikola Jovic has grown up. This Serbian men's basketball team, Jokic, Bogdanovic and Jovic are equivalent to forming the three giants. In this game against the Slovenian men's basketball team, Jovic scored a team-high 18 points and contributed another 7 rebounds. Bogdanovic scored 14 points and made 4 of 5 three-pointers. Jokic contributed 10 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists.

Doncic contributed 17 points, 7 rebounds and 4 assists in this game. His offensive efficiency was inefficient and only made 4 of 18 shots. Heat coach Spolstrá came to watch the game on site, and it was obvious that he was here to watch Jovic's game.

Jovic averaged 10.7 points, 3.9 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 0.8 steals per game at the Heat last season, shooting 45.6% from the field, 37.1% from three-point shooting percentage and 82.8% from free throw percentage. The 22-year-old striker has a comprehensive range of skills and still has a lot of room for improvement.

Jovic's growth has given the Serbian men's basketball team a stable offensive firepower point, greatly reducing the pressure on Jokic. In the 2022 Men's Basketball European Championship, the Serbian Men's Basketball Team is also a favorite to win the European Championship. It achieved an unbeaten record of 5 wins and 0 losses in the group stage. Unexpectedly, in the first round of the knockout round, the Serbian Men's Basketball Team was upset by the Italian Men's Basketball Team 86-94. Jokic scored 32 points, 13 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals and 1 block in that game, but the Italian men's basketball team had more points and scored 16 three-pointers in the game.

Jovic was selected by the Heat with the 27th overall pick in the 2022 draft. After three years of polishing, he has become an important rotation player of the Heat. This summer, Jovic can renew his contract with the Heat in advance, and the two sides have also negotiated renewal, but the contract has not been agreed. One of the reasons is that Jovic's attendance rate is not very high. In the past three seasons, he has only played 46 games in the season with the highest number of appearances. Obviously, Jovic's performance in the European Championship will have a certain impact on how big a contract he can get when renewing his contract.

Jovic also performed well in the game where the Serbian men's basketball team defeated the German men's basketball team 91-81 on August 17. He scored 7 of 11 shots, 4 of 7 three-pointers, and 4 of 4 free throws to score 22 points, which was also the highest score in the team. This Serbian men's basketball team is strong and powerful. The 20-year-old Thunder star Topic doesn't play much time in the warm-up match and has no chance to perform. He is a marginal player of the Serbian men's basketball team.

This European Championship is a great opportunity for Jokic to strive for the international championship. Jokic has not won championships in the European Championships, World Cups and Olympics so far, nor has he won the championship in his youth team years. Jokic led the Serbian U19 men's basketball team to win the runner-up in the U19 men's basketball World Youth Championship in 2013. He led the Serbian men's basketball team to win the runner-up in the 2016 Rio Olympics and the third place in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Jokic won these three medals in international competitions in his career, and he did not win medals in the World Cup and European Championships.

Among them, in the 2022 European Championship, the Serbian men's basketball team was blocked by the Italian men's basketball team in the 1/8 final and missed the quarterfinals. In the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup, Jokic was very tired when he just won the NBA championship and chose to miss it.

In this European Championship, many NBA stars played one after another. Jokic, Antetokounmpo, Doncic, Markanen, Wagner Jr., Shinkin, Schroeder, Vucevic, Porzingis and Valanciunas will all make their debut, which can be said to be a star-studded one. But there is no doubt that the Serbian men's basketball team is the strongest, even if it is slightly better than the 2023 Men's Basketball World Cup champion, the German men's basketball team. The Serbian men's basketball team swept all the powerful men in the warm-up match and showed strong dominance.

However, the European Championships have never been short of unpopularity. The Serbian men's basketball team cannot be taken lightly. The Serbian men's basketball team has won the European Championship three times in history, but the last championship has been traced back to 2001. The Serbian men's basketball team won the runner-up in the 2009 European Championships during the era when Teodosic led the team, and also won the runner-up in the 2017 European Championships.

European Championships have been reorganized, changing the two-year session to four-year session. In this way, the European Championships championship has become even more precious. For Jokic, now he is in his prime, which is the best opportunity to win the European Championship. After all, in four years, he doesn't know whether he can still maintain his peak state, nor does he know what level of the Serbian men's basketball team's strength will be at that time.