{"id":314857,"date":"2021-08-03T21:12:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:12:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/luka-doncic-leads-slovenia-to-its-first-olympics-semifinal\/"},"modified":"2021-08-03T21:12:30","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T18:12:30","slug":"luka-doncic-leads-slovenia-to-its-first-olympics-semifinal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/luka-doncic-leads-slovenia-to-its-first-olympics-semifinal\/","title":{"rendered":"#Luka Doncic leads Slovenia to its first Olympics semifinal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Luka Doncic leads Slovenia to its first Olympics semifinal<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Germany\u2019s Maodo Lo scanned the floor and saw Luka Doncic was driving inside, so Lo shifted into the paint and hastily planted his feet in preparation for a charge. Instead, Doncic Euro stepped into a floater, and Lo flopped. No foul was called.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd one,\u201d Doncic said while strolling back to defense.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the debatable no-call, the Mavericks superstar led his native Slovenia to a 94-70 win over Germany, dropping 20 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>After the win against Germany, Slovenia will go to its first-ever Olympic semifinals on Thursday. The Slovenians will compete against France, a team that defeated Team USA in a group stage matchup and is stacked with newly-signed Knicks wing Evan Fournier and Utah Jazz center Rudy Gobert, the NBA\u2019s 2021 Defensive Player of the Year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"712\" alt=\"Luke Doncic\" class=\"wp-image-19007181 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332043780.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332043780.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332043780.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332043780.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332043780.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Doncic has become Team Slovenia\u2019s leading scorer.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Doncic joined the Slovenian team in 2017 and helped them win gold at the 2017 Turkey EuroBasket. Nearly four years later, Doncic led the team in scoring during the Olympic group stage, with 28.3 points per <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>In his Olympic debut against Argentina, Doncic scored a herculean 48 points to carry Slovenia to its first win. He also narrowly missed a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a>le-double against Spain (12 points, 14 rebounds, 9 assists), something that hasn\u2019t been done at the Olympics since LeBron James in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have, obviously, the best player in the world,\u201d Slovenia coach Aleksander Sekulic <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/news\/lukas-world-doncics-olympic-debut-getting-rave-reviews\">told reporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As a two-time All-NBA First Team player, Doncic is a bonafide scoring and playmaking superstar within the Association. The 22-year-old is entering his fourth season in the NBA and is still on his rookie contract. According to reports, Doncic will sign a <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/10009422-mavs-rumors-luka-doncic-to-wait-until-after-olympics-to-talk-5-year-202m-contract\">five-year, $200 million extension<\/a> with Dallas, but only after the Olympics are over.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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Instead, Doncic Euro stepped into a floater, and Lo flopped. No foul was called. \u201cAnd one,\u201d Doncic&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":314858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1332042471.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[70888,113371,80610,90248],"class_list":["post-314857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2020-olympics","tag-8-3-21","tag-dallas-mavericks","tag-luka-doncic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}