Nikola Jokić's ceiling is high

Nikola Jokić had a career night this Friday against the struggling New York Knicks. He just went berserk, scoring 40 points, grabbing 9 rebounds and dishing 5 assists. Not yet impressed? He made 17/23 FG's and 2/3 from downtown. during the previous games, he was flirting with triple doubles, vs Milwaukee(20 points/13rebounds/11assists they won, 121-117), January 16 vs Orland Magic, which they won(30 points), Dec. 19(near triple double with 27 points, 15 rebounds and 9 assists) on a win against Dallas(117-107), December 28 vs Minnesota on a 105-103 win(16 points, 11 assits and 8 rebounds.)

Look at his stats from last year and this year(after the win against New York):

While this was his stats back in the Adriatic League with KK Mega Vizura:

How good was he is how he is better like, he was the steal of the 2014 NBA draft, not playing until the next season. And, and he helped Serbia get the Silver medal during the 2016 Olympics. But he's not part of the Western conference All-stars. Just a shame people outside of Serbia never voted for him. He deserves a spot! I wouldn't be surprised if he will raise the Larry O'Brien trophy in the years to come.

Serbs won over our hearts, Americans just need the referees

ALMOST. I am quite sad they lost the game but still, they could have won without the referees calling bogus fouls on Miroslav Raduljica or Nikola Kalinić or the infamous non-calls on DeMarcus Cousins, one of those the non-foul call when Nikola Jokić made the three pointer to narrow the gap late in the 4th Qtr.

Kalinić and Raduljica ended up with 5 fouls each and Sale Nacionale Aleksandar Đorđević has to play Milan Mačvan and Vladimir Štimac some time. But Miloš Teodosic(18 points and 6 assists), Stefan Marković(12 points, 4 assists), Miroslav Raduljica(18 points before fouling out) and Nikola Jokić(25 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists) gave out their hearts along with the supporting cast to make a unbelievable comeback against the lazy American defense and were almost stunned when the Serbs went for every loose ball they can get. Sadly, the referees came to the aid of the Americans who would have lost, especially if the foul on Cousins on Jokić's made 3 pointer was rightfully called.

Shame on the Olympic referees, it's clear Srbija was meant to win but still, the Americans got the benefit of the referees.

China vs US: 62-119
Venezuela vs US: 69-113
Serbia vs US: 91-94

The Americans were lucky Bogdan Bogdanović's late 3 rattled out but it's clear, the Americans will lose to Serbia if the playing field is equal and the Americans are lazy to go for the loose ball or even defend. We saw how Draymond Green and DeMarcus Cousins were called for unsportsmanlike fouls and funny thing, Deandre Jordan flopped late in the 2nd Qtr when he was defending Miroslav Raduljica's post up on him, reminiscent of Omer Asik's infamous flop back in 2010 against Serbia.

Now, Serbia needs to win against China to get through the Quarter finals or else, we need to wait for FIBA 2019....

Živeli Srbija!