“Beating Serbia is memorable”

Thomas Jurkovitz, 3×3 basketball world vice-world with the Swiss team.image: instagram

The national team shone at the 3X3 basketball world cup, where she won a silver medal on Sunday. Member of the group, basketball player Thomas Jurkovitz returns to this historic campaign.

Less than a year after her beautiful fourth place at the 3X3 basketball euro, the Swiss team struck a new big blow: Sunday, she won the silver medal at the World Cup, beaten in the final by Spain (17-21).

What missed the Swiss basketball players, to make the difference and climb the last step? The address, according to Thomas Jurkovitz, one of the four members of the team, joined by watson.

If losing in the final is always difficult to accept, it is above all necessary to salute the impressive course of the Helvetians in Mongolia. They notably defeated the Netherlands, reigning Olympic champions, and eliminated cadors like Latvia and Serbia, a worldwide world champion. This is precisely what the Fribourgeois want to retain.

But such an epic, historic and charged with emotions, did it not end up weighing on the shoulders of the Swiss, when playing the final? “It’s always difficult to analyze,” says Jurkovitz. “We were 100% focused on this final. But it is true that by eliminating the best team in the world in half, there may have been, unconsciously, a relaxation, saying that the hardest was done, “he adds.

Anyway, in the final, Switzerland knew very well against whom it was going to play, since it had already faced Spain for its entry into the tournament, then bowing on a much heavier score (21-12). However, this inaugural defeat has finally proved to be saving and allowed Swiss basketball players to question themselvesand to learn precious lessons for the rest of the competition.

“It had the effect of an electric shock. We questioned ourselves, we changed our tactic and we thought that if we wanted to win, we had to be more aggressive. It paid for the following matches. Unfortunately, he missed it in the final, ”explains the member of Friborg 3×3, who has also evolved this season with the tigers of Lugano, in basketball at five.

The Swiss team will now be very supervised, with a view to the European Cup in two months, which will be held in the streets of Copenhagen. But beware: the European level is equivalent worldwide, and everything can go very quickly in 3×3.

The Switzerland team in full. From left to right: Thomas Jurkovitz, Nathan Jurkovitz,image: instagram

“It is true that everything is possible in 3×3 in a single match,” recognizes Thomas Jurkovitz. However, this does not mean that the recent Swiss journey in Oulan-Bator is lucky.

It is therefore with this state of mind that the Swiss 3×3 basketball team will have to present themselves in Denmark, next September.

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