Basketball in Serbia

The post you have all been waiting for! 🏀

Unfortunately, because of covid most teams in Brevin’s league aren’t allowing any fans, but last week I was able to go to one of Brevin’s games! His team (KK Tamiš) played our friend’s team (Vojvodina) at their gym in Novi Sad.

Brev wrote about the differences from Badger basketball to European basketball below:

We play a 40 minute game that is broken up into four 10 minute quarters and there is a 24 second shot clock instead of a 30 second shot clock.
Defensive coverage is different. Instead of simply hedging a screen or covering in drop, we often “side or ice” ball screens to prevent players from going off the screen.
Teams get four small fouls each quarter before going into the bonus. These are often used to stop fast breaks or easy layups.
My personal favorite difference with European basketball is when you pass the ball to a teammate and he gets fouled shooting and then he makes both free throws, the passer gets credited with an assist.