Dubljevic ready for Timisoara test
PODGORICA (EuroBasket Women 2015) - EuroLeague Women star Jelena Dubljevic is raring to go to Timisoara and was the headline name for Montenegro as they announced the 12 players tasked with carrying their
PODGORICA (EuroBasket Women 2015) - EuroLeague Women star Jelena Dubljevic is raring to go to Timisoara and was the headline name for Montenegro as they announced the 12 players tasked with carrying their chances at EuroBasket Women 2015.
She will be joined by some familiar faces in the likes of veteran frontcourt partners Iva Perovanovic, Milica Jovanovic and Milka Bjelica, but also the naturalised Angelica Robinson who will step out for the first time at the event.
Dubljevic also took the opportunity to hail two other debutantes in the shape of Vojvodina duo Jovana Pasic and Jelena Vucetic, who could be difference makers when they enter the action.
''We have worked very hard and very well," declared the Galatasaray odeabank player.
"We are aware of the obligations, both individually and as a team.
"It is important to open the championship well, because a lot depends on the situation afterwards and it should be carried in our favour.
"We promise a great fight and have a sincere desire to correct some things from the past and to try to make a step forward.
"It is important to think of the happiness that we might have missed in previous competitions.
"We now have a much longer bench compared to previously and both Pasic and Vucetic can enter with a lot of energy and raise us as a team.
"We have to go game by game and the most important thing is to pass the preliminary stage.
"We missed qualifying for the Olympic Games four years ago, but it is now far behind us as I believe that we have learned the lessons.
"We must be patient and wait for our chance. The desire is to be healthy and we have the right to dream and to hope for the realisation of that dream.
"I think this championship will be fairly uniform and I give everyone a chance."
Dubljevic and her team-mates will clash with Czech Republic, France, Ukraine and co-hosts Romania in Group A.
Montenegro final roster for EuroBasket Women 2015: Snezana Aleksic, Milka Bjelica, Jelena Dubljevic, Milica Jovanovic, Jovana Pasic, Iva Perovanovic, Natasa Popovic, Kristina Rakovic, Angelica Robinson, Jelena Skerovic, Jelena Vucetic, Aleksandra Vujovic.
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