Nurkić on the national team: Give us a system!
The representative of Bosnia and Herzegovina and member of the Portland Trail Blazers, Jusuf Nurkić, spoke about the state of the national team in the show "NBA Arena" on the Arena Sports channel.
He pointed out that we lack a serious system that will support all athletes at the state level. Whether they competed individually or collectively is of less importance.
- Every year the same for the last 29 years, I mean during the war, those people who left in 1994, only we didn't escape through the runway over the bullets, everything else was the same. That is what we lack the most, to have a system like all the countries in the region. Let us play, represent the citizens, I've never had a problem, with people wanting to say this or that, but give us a system that will support all athletes, individual and collective, at the state level - Nurkić said about the national team.
Nurkić also spoke about the performance of the national team at Eurobasket last year.
- Honestly, the most important thing for me at Eurobasket was how we would look, not who we could win or lose. Just not to be a punching bag in sports jargon. I spent all the time explaining to my teammates that the most important thing is how we play together. If you have the physiques, you can play with anyone, and we had them. Whether we could have played a little differently, but that's a matter of the coach who came two weeks before the game. If you know enough about sports, you see that it's a circus.
Jusuf Nurkić missed the second consecutive duel with his Portland team, and it is certain that he will miss this year's edition of the playoffs.
Text source: Dnevni avaz
Photo source: Instagram/Jusuf Nurkić
