Why Luka Never Skips FIBA Tournaments 

Oh yeah, definitely worth a mention!

Didn’t Pau Gasol also give everything to Spain too?

I just said they missed dirk. Paul for sure the same.@@gambitacio

Btw, all 3 are power forwards. Coincidence? I don't think so 😂

@@joebo1072 My bad. I just blanked for a second. I thought he didn’t mention Pau because Dirk was obvious. But yeah, he should’ve mentioned Dirk. Those 2000s teams really did launch international basketball and I’m starting to lean towards it more because the NBA is becoming too repetitive and sterilized.

They dont care about non-Euro international players unless they can pretend they are European - like Scola. It would be difficult to pass Patty off as being a soft and slow European.

@@theoneonly259 I understand the channel is very euro-centric but if you’re going to talk world basketball they should also mention successful & highly ranked nations such as Australia & it’s players, some of whom also play (or played previously) in Europe.

@@lordjayvideos i think european fans have a lot of respect for australian bball and for sure one reason is that many guys played here, the bond with a player you know and like his game.but me personally, i would enjoy a win against usa let's say ( cocky teams that don't respect the competition), like it was any european team. and that goes for other international teams also. (and believe it or not patty the aboriginal guy has become my favorite ausie player!!)

@@theoneonly259 This was not a well put video they even forgot about Dirk Nowitcki so not the best one they made.

@@und3rcut535 Well its a good topic. And I guess they cant cover everyone. Im sure that the channel has respect for Dirks play for Germany. He is European after all. Ha Luka is a pretty high bar though. From an Australian perspective - I am thankful that our best players make themselves available for the World Cup. Playing Eurobasket on top of World Championships and Olympics as well as NBA seasons does seem like a lot. The top Australian players do not play in the Asian Games of course. Or the Commonwealth games. Ha. I wonder if European fans see the Eurobasket thing as important as the World Cup. Which one they would prefer a guy like Luka to miss in the name of load management. Is Eurobasket more important than Eurovision? Ha. Seems pretty important.

Yes. There is a difference in being a patriot or calling yourself a patriot. The americans are fast with the latter, but do not actually have that pride to represent their country in them like many international players do. Look at Lauri Markkanen for example. Dude just spent months in the armed forces doing his military service because he "feels like it's duty as a Finnish citizen" and now he's gearing up to play in the World Cup with a smile on his face, happy and proud to get to suit up alongside his brothers in the National Team. You don't see that spirit in these U.S. divas.

You can’t have pride for a country thats shown many times that they don’t like you which is different for European Countries

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@steezymtb5876The patriotic athletes in the USA play every other sport than basketball thats why. There is a reason for this too, not by accident. American Football, Baseball, Hockey, Wrestling etc. look up Pat Tillman and Alejandro Villanueva for some examples of our multi-millionaire athletes giving it all up to go serve their country. Thats cute though finnish man is doing his forced service for 4 months now

@@steezymtb5876or JOKIC bro, gtfo

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I couldn't mention everyone but TP is up there for sure!

2005😂😂🎉🎉🎉

Moreover, Tony was playing every year for contention deep in the playoff

i sad kad je najveca legenda grada denvera, kad moze da im kaze,,slusaj, odoh ja SP pa me ne racunajte prve 2, 3 nedelje regularnog dela da odmorim malo - on nece da igra. a sigurno to moze da im kaze, sto, da nece da ga trejduju ili kazne finansijski pa da ga provociraju?

True, he’s playing for his country but at the end of the day if his heart isn’t in it he may end up letting everyone down, you need to have the same obsessive love for basketball as Luka to play that many games and still be enthusiastic

He does have a small child though. I kinda get him. He recently became a dad, no? And then to be in camp away from family again for how long? Or if they come with him, like... what kind of familiy life is that?

I also feel shitty that he won't play but I'm not really angry at him. He might also be trying to avoid that if he'd play he would be the literal star player there right now, I think the pressure is quite high from him and he just won NBA finals, the whole thing prolly feels for him quite heavy, dunno... my 2 cents on it.

Yeah Serbia without Jokič will never be any serious tournament contenders :/

The rise of Argentina with Ginobli, France with Tony Parker, Spain with Pau and Mark Gasol the mark where international basketball was catching up. It was a cultural earthquake.

I love Carlos Arroyo to this day.

I have no idea why it was treated like that. Puertorico is a u.s territory 😂

that's a healthy and on point view on athleticism, bball and team sports in general. if more people could get it...?!!

USA Indianapolis Olimpic games 2002 Usa vs Yugoslavia(Serbia) 1/4 finals and Serbia won and latter win all

That's a cool fact! Had to google and see it myself 😅

if you care about winning, you know you gotta carry your team too. one is never enough... so, maybe some guys, they just can't always care

luka father is from Serbia but mother is from Slovenia and in Europe players play for father country and why Luka olay for Slovenia i never understand because he speaks Serbian better than Slovenian.

@@FuSiMentor this is not true. Luka grandparents are from Serbia and they came to live to Slovenia in 1970s. Lukas father played basketball in primary school with me in town Jesenice, Slovenia. Lukas was born in Slovenia, raised in Slovenia, started to play basketball in Ljubljana and went to Real Madrid from Olimpija Ljubljana. Why in the world should Luka play for Serbia. Because of the gradparents ? Dosadni ste sa time jer njemu Srbija u smislu košarke a i ostalog nije dala ništa. On je poštuje kao i njene građane baš kao i ja! :)

@@FuSiMentor because he grew up there, learned bball there, has his first friends, girl there? because he choose to play there..? not enough?

Interesting take. Probably true.

Stop projecting...the reason why the sport is global is because of the NBA. The kids in South America, Asia and Africa don't play basketball because of the Euroleague, it's because of the NBA.

@@williamphillips3035lmao ok m8

​@@etanabu2232Basketball is 130+ years old. Besides, Rugby and hockey are older than football.

Football is popular cause you can play it anywhere with minimal equipment. Basketball is like that too, relative to other sports like hockey American football or baseball. But compared to soccer it’s nowhere near as accessible

This channel likes to either pretend that all international players are European and take credit for them - or ignore non-Euro international players altogether.

Olympics Patty is a 90 overall player.

@@theoneonly259 Scola?

olympics luca is 199 overall@@armin38822

@@drixcel2741 They think they can pass him off as a Euro because he played a lot in the Euroleague and they are also clearly colonialists who believe him to be Spanish. I mentioned this in a previous post. Keep up.

Yet another power forward to the collection of loyal players 🤔

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​@@giorway9153 you dont know him?

@@samuelcastells5061 shi im georgian too bruh

Thank you! 💙🤍♥️

Prandelli team, where casano and balotelli be one of the best striker partner in tournament. And daniele de rossi be one of the best centre back. Italian as a team rarely dissapointed. Feels bad when they fail qualifying for 2022.

What's the second most popular sport in Italy?🤔

@@ayidonno Formula 1, definitely. Ferrari is a fucking religion over here

I remember reading Basket d'Italia as a kid. Great book and one could feel the national pride in it.

@@ayidonno football is the first, second and third sport in Italy. After comes Formula 1 and MotoGP. Volley, Rugby and Basketball are kinda equal.

Is this supposed to be a shot at America.

@@Smith9082253 nah I'm talking about Jokić not playing for Serbia

@@dorotejorescanin6453 my apologies I understand what you were saying now.

Hope he plays, maybe he adopted that "Olympics over World Cup" mentality too 🤔

@@BasketNews_com he didn't go to world cup in 2020, but he went to the olimpics, hopefully he has that mentally

Thanks!

@@BasketNews_com and half people in Serbia dont love Jokic like Bogdanovic, maybe Bogdan is not as good as Luka or Jokic but he is always there for national team except of course if he is injured like last year

Another Serbian here, Jokic is not loved as much.. many hate his being fake and pretending. We respect honesty, but saying "i WiLL mAkE mY dEciSion 2 DaYs BefoRE GathERiNG" is so dishonest, we faking hate it. Next time, he should learn to be honest, and for gaslight his nation until the very end. Fak him.

And their chants are so stupid and boring.

Even more so because it's not like the NBA season ended recently. It ended like over a month ago. I had thought he wanted to go home as soon as possible to get some rest before joining the Serbia camp.

Same just happened with Latvia and Porzingis. Very disappointing for fans cause it seems he put Boston as only priority. They claimed ''foot injury'' but he was dunking like crazy in workouts.

Thank you for sharing!

ma ko ga jebe bitno je da bogdan igra a i nesto mislim da smo nekako bolji bez jokica i da cemo u finale ove godine bas zato sto nam nije najjaci sastav bolje cemo igrati po meni

I am disappointed too but not everybody cares about basketball the same. You can see Jokic prefers to do other thing when he can. It is a big reason he was fat of a while a few years ago.

No playing for you country is sacred he better mis few NBA match then miss play for Serbia what's the difference between him and Doncic nothing except Luka love his country and feel special to give back to country who give him everything and who he is! And don't need Jokic who will play like you put gun on his head better some young player 10 time worst then him but with love and pride play! There is nothing more important!

​@@bogoljubdjordjevic7528kakav si kenjator tebra

@@bogoljubdjordjevic7528jokic played till June while doncic was out since more less may especially since most of them games were fairly close

What about previous 2 times he didnt want to play?

@@bogoljubdjordjevic7528 luka didn't make the playoffs, he had extra time to rest which jokic didn't get. Let the man rest and stop pushing your ideals of playing for your country on him.

Divac did not play for many years and they all missed many games.

@@tomzee70 This is not true. They missed some but not most, usually due to injury. Divac played in most tournaments except in 1998.

It seems to me that there are more hidden problems inside the Sebian basketball team and the whole organization that we're not fully aware of... and I believe that Jokić just doesn't want to be involved. Like he says: guys, sorry (but jebiga) it's not for me! P.S. Other nations, except maybe Croatia, have very healthy relationships among and between their players and managements, and I really believe that to be the main reason not to avoid playing for the homeland.

@@miroljub3817 Most likely

Jokić just finished a finals series while Luka missed the whole damn playoffs, it is not the same lmfao

Who is jv?

Jonas

Strong first five.. but not the bench

stronger than any other bench besides usa spain maybe france.@@janstegu

really sad it dissolved, what a teams it could have produced both football and basketball....

In fact USA("NATO") destroyed Yugoslavia...and many other countries...😬

Well unless I am missing anyone it would likely be Doncic - Bogdanovic - Bogdanovic - Vucevic - Jokic, with the bench of Nurkic (maybe not, depends how he is getting on with Jokic these days), Zubac, N. Jovic, Musa, and the rest filled by Serbian national team, perhaps Saric, but probably not after injury. if we had this running, perhaps Mirotic would not be playing for Spain, and if you add an international player which you can ( Murray 🤣🤣🤣) could definitely beat US national team. Definitely be in it to win tournaments for about a decade.

Giannis would have played if he didn't get injured

@@ayidonno oh yeah of course, i meant Gianni didn't play the summer he won the championship

@@Pavvy88 ... He didn't play because their finals vs Suns finished weeks before Olympics, whereas he can't participate OQT where Greece didn't qualified

@@robertotampioc7318 aaa yes correct thats because that season started later due to Covid so it finished later which ended up being in mid-July. Even if it did end up in normal scheduled time which wouldve been mid-June instead, then im sure Gianni would've been highly advised to sit out representing Greece for summer

If Jokic has a problem with Pesic, he should confront him, or at least speak up if he thinks Pesic is the unreasonable party. This is not the first time Jokic has some "reason" not to play, though, you know, while Pesic apparently didn't find an excuse with his 74 years of age. Jokic "having to recover", "having to rest", or in the latest case "not being motivated to give his best" is better than coming and behaving like primadonna, late to every practice and/or silvering up on the court - since we had such players in the past, god save us from their patriotism... It is better, but it doesn't make it right. I will never understand such people, who don't care about playing under the flag. Why? - because they might hurt a fkn ankle or smtn and come out few millions short next year? What would you expect that guy to do if he was supposed to take up arms and defend that country?

i dont think he likes basketball as much. I'm in the same boat, i've played basketball all my life, but i just don't have a passion for it. But you put me on an ice rink to play hockey now that's fun. Jokic i think wanted to be something else when he was a kid, but because society told him "you're 7 feet tall you have to play basketball", maybe he wanted to be a male ballerina or a lawyer.

@@squeekyclean1644 or an elf... or a tooth fairy... tinker bell ;D i get it, mate, but still, Jokic and guys like him are national heroes here, adored by the whole nation, you can't find a 6yo kid who doesn't know who Jokic is. and when that fatherland's calling, that Jokic says "nah, mate, I have something - ANYthing - more important" (?!) I think that the point here was that Luka Doncic also just "works" in NBA, plays for money, that's ok, they both know nobody's gonna remember them in the USA in a decade, nobody's gonna name a sport hall, or some street after them, or anything, but here, on Balkans, they are already legends. That's what this is about. If I call you, asking for help, let's say I need some1 to weld a bike, you're gonna come simply because I love you, my wife loves you, my kids adore you, my father tells you "you're the son I never had", entire family accepting you as our own, ofc you're gonna come. You're not gonna tell me "fuk man, I hate welding bikes, I never wanted to do that in first place", you're already welding stuff every day. Imagine if millions of people feel like that - and you "can't bother"? Because, literally millions in Serbia hoped Jokic would play. This is Balkans, mate, we have wars twice a century here. This isn't one of those Baltic states, or some place that underwent globalization, where people have to check their ID before answering about their nationality, or one of those American/Australian countries that started of as colonies, where citizenship became "nationality". This is Balkans. Proud, old nations, lots and lots of blood. Flags matter here. I can't understand anyone who already made millions and is motivated better with more millions to play in a foreign league, than with national pride, to play on a world/euro cup or Olympics, as a part of national team.

@@m1k4c bro I explained it all in my comment, if Pesic wasn't the coach I am sure he would play. I believe he has national pride but not to the degree of guys like Doncic and Bogdanovic who would play if their national team coach was an actual donkey. He doesn't want to go through the same thing like in the world cup in 2019 where he had to play as a backup to Bircevic (to all the non Serbian people this did actually happen and I also don't know who Bircevic is) where he didn't play his regular position (mostly played PF) played mid and then got shit for it, or 2022 where he played excellent and still thanks to Pesic genius coaching we went home in the round of 16 and still somehow got shit for it putting up a statline of 32p 12r 4a being +15 while on the floor. Regarding speaking up against Pesic I would also like if he said smt, but first he is a private person and is not one to create drama. Second I think his manager who profits from the corrupt clownshow which is the the Serbian basketball federation strongly advises him against it. Again I am bummed out about him not playing, ffs I am Serbian and basketball is my favorite sport, but as long as that coked up clown Danilovic is running the federation, with senile Svetislav as coach more and more top players are gonna say thanks but no thanks because they don't want to have to deal with the shitshow and backlash when we lose because exposure of certain players was put in front of strategy and winning. And as long as our federation is in the state it is I will NEVER blame the player for declining to play even if he stated the reason was he doesn't want to mess up his new haircut.

@@m1k4c the only problem I have with Jokic how he has been talking all these years how important the national team is, how it is every serbian players dream to represent serbia in basketball and all the other patriotic stuff he said prior/during his years in the NBA. and then he chooses lame excuses not to play. he needs to recover? I am sure partying in Sombor and getting drunk every weekend is anything but recovering. I don't mind if a guy doesn't play, but dont talk all that shit and then not back it up. two options, he either lied or he lost his passion/perspective and I am not sure what is worse.

Thanks 🙏

Giannis is patriotic, he would have played if not for the injury

Hah! Now I wonder where you thought I was from 👀

​@@BasketNews_comI thought you were Serbian

the only time he can rest in 7 years !

You guys love basketball more than Filipinos and Chinese people? I don't think so

​@@ayidonnoWe do

@@rumbL24 basketball is the most popular sport in those two countries, but it isn't the most popular sport in Serbia, that will be football

@@ayidonno Serbia has educated basketball fans. Average knowledge of basketball per person is so high. Philippines and Chinese they are crazy for NBA, but have no tradition, no legends and big results in history. In China table tennis is national sport.

@@nikolat0607saying Yao ming and erik spoelstra aren’t legends is ridiculous man they’re hall of famers

sasa doncic*

Luka would’ve still played

Brate, Jokic just doesn’t really like basketball. I even think he will retire after his current contract at Denver runs out. He’ll probably stop playing for the national around the same time entirely too.

But that's what the video is trying to say, you look at some of the guys like Scola, Pau, etc. They were always there 😅

NIsam ti ja brat, bajo. Necu ni da citam ovo ostalo trabunjanje nekih bezveznih gluposti sto samo buidale bez grama mozga ponavljaju ko papige. @@grandmastersreaction1267

so Pau Gasol is alien, terminator?

Because it’s just not as valuable as an nba championship

Olympics rosters are usually amazing check the lineups had kobe lebron Wade carmelo mj magic etc

Ur miserable

Shot up sorry Look AT some team USA sometines there were Big players so keep your mouth close

@@yveson333 what? 2016 Olympics - many players withdrew early due to a variety of concerns relating to the Rio games. Team USA even stayed on a cruise ship. Meanwhile all the guys you would expect from Serbia, Spain etc were there. 2019 FIBA World Cup - all the big names (at the time), withdrew or even opted out of consideration early. USA finished 7th. Again non-US/North American teams sent the players you would expect to represent them. 2020 Olympics - again a lot of the biggest names didn’t go. There is a big push every now and then, 1992 introduction of NBA players/Dream Team; 2008 Redeem Team etc. which reinvigorates life into the program. Olympics is a bigger pull - Fact. Olympics can generate greater endorsements - Fact. Relative to European teams, the USA has much less sense of pride.

He might be of Serbian ethnicity but he was born in Slovenia and has always lived there. Except the two years he played at France and Serbia. 95% of his professional career is tied to Slovenia.

was reading this and thought it was a meme 💀

@@Mr.Sax. he is a Serbian from Kosovo i Metohija He have relatives there Or maybe his sister doesn't know nothing about their family But , I believe HER

@@slobodankarapandzic3018 The point is that he has chosen to be Slovenian.

@@Mr.Sax. When Irish or Italian come to USA , he and his kids will always be Irish or Italians Same is with Serbs Serbs are only nation that kiss each other three times during greetings, so you watch carefully again this video Lazar Samardžić was born in Germany, he played for all German football representatives category, but he choose to play for Serbia, despite he don't speak Serbian so well

Thank you 🎉

They care about money, like all the American culture.

@@diegomillan2806

​@@diegomillan2806everyone cares about money especially if you don't have any.

I love how Europeans love to bash American players but your country can't beat them on the court.

I love how Americans enjoy bashing Europeans like the entire world doesn’t mock America as a pastime. Wonder what it’s like to be the worlds ashtray

Unfortune how his career ended early due to those injuries 😞