Team USA vs. Serbia Odds: Can Serbia Keep It Close?
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00:00So, the odds makers, what I think is really interesting here, Gilbert, have sort of responded
00:08the other way because Serbia, while they're not great, have certainly played well.
00:13Like they're sort of staying in games, or at least the point spread here, maybe that's
00:17probably the best way to put it.
00:19Team USA, only 16 and a half point favorites, Gilbert, against Serbia.
00:23We know that Serbia covered against Team USA when they played them thus far.
00:26The total is 184 and a half, Thursday at 3 o'clock Eastern.
00:31So, no one's picking Serbia on the money line to upset them outright at plus 920.
00:37But can Serbia keep this close enough to make it interesting?
00:42I do think that they will keep it close.
00:45Serbia was tested yesterday by Australia, they needed to come back from down 24 points.
00:49So, I do think they might be a little bit tired from the effort that it took for them
00:53to win that game.
00:55This is the third time that these two teams have met during the Olympic cycle.
00:59It was a little bit closer during the exhibitions, and Team USA kind of ran the score up during
01:04group play.
01:05But I think that now that this is the quarterfinal, or the semifinal stage, the knockout round,
01:10I think that Serbia will try to slow the game down and make it a little bit uglier.
01:13Because that's really their best chance to make things interesting against Team USA.
01:18We know that they have Nikola Jokic, but they also have Bogdan Bogdanovic and some other
01:21talented players on that roster.
01:23So, if they can make the game a little bit uglier, they can hang around a little bit
01:26longer than people probably expect them to.