Basketball
Men
| Squad list | Preliminary round | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank | |
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| Group A | Rank | |||||
| Dejan Bodiroga Petar Popović Đuro Ostojić Vladimir Radmanović Igor Rakočević Vlado Šćepanović Vule Avdalović Predrag Drobnjak Nenad Krstić Miloš Vujanić Dejan Tomašević Aleksandar Pavlović Coach: Željko Obradović |
Argentina L 82-83 |
6 | Did not advance | 11 | ||
| Italy w 74–72 |
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| New Zealand L 87–90 |
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| Spain L 68–76 |
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| China L 66–67 |
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The men's team from Serbia and Montenegro had won gold at the 2002 World Basketball Championships as team Yugoslavia, but in Athens they struggled, putting up the worst Olympic performance in their history. At the World Championships, they had beaten New Zealand in the semifinals and Argentina in the finals to claim the title. In Athens, both earned their revenge, beating the Serbia and Montenegro team in group play. Losses to Spain and China, 12th at the 2002 Worlds, resulted in a last place finish in the group. The team did beat Angola in the 11th place game, but overall, the tournament was a disappointment. The team's leading scorer was guard Milos Vujanic with 13.5 points per game, while Dejan Tomašević led in rebounds with 9.2 per game.
Read more about this topic: Serbia And Montenegro At The 2004 Summer Olympics
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“Perhaps basketball and poetry have just a few things in common, but the most important is the possibility of transcendence. The opposite is labor. In writing, every writer knows when he or she is laboring to achieve an effect. You want to get from here to there, but find yourself willing it, forcing it. The equivalent in basketball is aiming your shot, a kind of strained and usually ineffective purposefulness. What you want is to be in some kind of flow, each next moment a discovery.”
—Stephen Dunn (b. 1939)