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RIO DE JANEIRO -- Serbia had a late last look against the U.S. and missed.The Serbs are getting another shot, this time for gold.Milos Teodosic scored 22 points as Serbia, which pushed the star-studded American squad to the final seconds before losing earlier in the Rio Games, moved into the Olympic final with a shockingly easy 87-61 semifinal win over Australia on Friday.Stefan Markovic scored 14, Nikola Jokic had 11 rebounds and the Serbs, a squad with a mixture of moxie and muscle, earned another crack at the U.S. on Sunday. The two-time champions buckled down on defense and held off Spain 82-76 in the other semi to advance.Serbias win guaranteed its first Olympic medal in mens basketball since gaining independence in 2006. An upset would give it the most precious one.Im not even thinking about the final because we need some time to forget this game and prepare our mind and body and everything for the game against the States, said Teodosic, the Serbs captain who shot 9 of 14 and added five assists. They are for sure the best team in the tournament, one great team with the big names. Were going to go on the court and try to play our game and were going to see if its going to be enough.The Serbs had more than enough to handle the talented and tough Aussies, who scored just five points in the first quarter, 14 in the first half and failed to secure their first Olympic medal after three fourth-place finishes.The Aussies, too, were hoping for another crack at the U.S. after a close loss in preliminary play. But theyll now have to beat Spain for their first Top 3 finish.With five NBA players, Australia brought its most talented team ever to Brazil. A horrendous start negated everything the Boomers had going for them.Were going to try to regroup, said Andrew Bogut, who had just four points and one rebound in more than 22 minutes. We realized the tournaments not over for us. Its disappointing to have that kind of game, but thats tournament basketball. You have one bad game out of seven and youre kind of out.Running their offense to text-book precision, the Serbs back cut, screened and scared the Americans in pool play before losing 94-91 in perhaps the tourneys most well-played game. Serbia had a chance to force overtime, but guard Bogdan Bogdanovic missed a 3-pointer as time expired.Serbia lost to the U.S. by 37 in the 2014 FIBA World Cup, but that experience only strengthened this group, which was beaten by 15 against Australia in the opening round.Our game was incredibly good and Im really proud of my team, Teodosic said. To limit one team like Australia to 15 points in the first half is something amazing, almost impossible, but we did it.Patty Mills scored 13 for the Aussies, but was only 1 of 9 on 3s. His teammates werent any better as Australia shot 33 percent from the field, and a head-scratching 13 percent (4 of 31) on 3-pointers.It was tough for us to buy a basket and they played really well defensively, guard Matthew Dellavedova said. We didnt run our offense as well as we can and as well as we have throughout the tournament. When a team has pressured us, weve got counters, but for whatever reason we just didnt get to them.Following the game, five-time Australian Olympian Andrew Gaze, the second leading scorer in the games history working in Rio as a TV commentator, summed up the way he and his countrymen were feeling.I didnt see that one coming, he said.Serbia built a 24-point lead in the second quarter on a three-point play by the talented Teodosic, who has become friends with U.S. coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Aussies tried to come back, but whether it was layups, mid-range jumpers or 3s, they just kept missing and missing and missing.The Serbs had something to do with it and they never let up. During the second half, the Brazilian crowd changed Ole ... Ole every time Serbia passed the ball as the frustrated Aussies scrambled trying to stop them.Serbia may not have as many household names as the Americans, Australians, French or Spaniards. But in Teodosic, the Serbs have one of Europes best guards and theyve got inside muscle with Jokic and Miroslav Raduljica, their tattooed center who left his mark on the Aussies with a few thunderous dunks.On Sunday, Serbia, an Olympic rookie, will have a shot at toppling the mighty U.S. of A.Unbelievable, said forward Nikola Kalinic. Serbia is a really small country, so its an even bigger success. Air Force 1 Utility Cheap . -- Jaye Marie Green shot a 4-under 68 on Thursday to increase her lead to five strokes after the second round of the LPGA Tours qualifying tournament. Nike Air More Uptempo Black Canada . 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BOSTON -- The Calgary Flames spent American Thanksgiving in Boston, practicing and resting in preparation for Friday nights game with the Bruins, the fourth game of a six-game road trip.The Bruins, meanwhile, had to play in Ottawa, where they lost 3-1 Thursday night, creating a back-to-back as the teams get together at TD Garden Friday -- Bostons first road game on Thanksgiving Night since 1950.The Bruins had only 19 shots on Craig Anderson and made all kinds of bad decisions Thursday night.Just one of those flat games and whats most disturbing or what you dont like about it is its against an Ottawa team that youre one point behind and you needed to win this one, Bruins coach Claude Julien said on the teams NESN post-game show.Asked what message he delivered to his players after the game, Julien, clearly not pleased, said, There was no message. I think the message was sent between periods tonight. Theres lots of time for that -- I think after the game its not always the best time to send a message, but its no doubt we need to bounce back tomorrow night, we need to have a better outing.The Bruins got both leading goal scorer David Pastrnak (upper-body injury) and defenseman Kevan Miller back Thursday night -- Miller making his season debut after breaking his hand in a preseason game. But captain and top defenseman Zdeno Chara was out with a lower-body injury suffered Tuesday night. He isnt supposed to be able to go Friday; and the Bruins are right back at it with a Sunday home matinee with the Tampa Bay Lightning.Pastrnak, who missed three games with an upper-body injury, scored his 11th goal of the season on the power play in the first period Thursday. For the second straight game, the Bruins scored first and for the second straight game, they lost.We didnt have enough guys going tonight and you dont win these important games if you dont have everybody going, Julien said.dddddddddddd Its pretty obvious tonight we didnt have that.Calgarys Chris Versteeg, who returned from a nine-game absence with a groin strain and set up the first goal a 2-0 win at Columbus, left Thursdays practice at Boston University and is doubtful for Friday night.Im not sure, Flames head coach Glen Gulutzan said when asked for an update. I havent talked to our guys yet -- I stayed out with some guys later -- I havent talked to them. But he left and I dont think thats a good sign when you leave practice half-way through.Wednesday night, veteran Chad Johnson stopped 34 shots to quiet both the Blue Jackets (they scored 10 goals at home against the Montreal Canadiens and eight against the St. Louis Blues) and the cannon that goes off when Columbus scores.I think everybody gets pretty startled when they hear that thing go off. Its a pretty loud boom, Johnson said after his sixth career shutout, but second in his last five starts. And theyve put up some goals this year, for sure, and that thing has gone off a lot. But the win is the most important thing. The shutout is just the icing on the cake.Johnson, playing for his sixth team in as many years, is 6-3-1 with a 2.08 goals against average and .922 save percentage.I thought he just played fantastic, Gulutzan said Wednesday, after his team won for the second time in three games on the current trip and for the third time in the last four road games overall.Calgary and Boston split a pair of games last year, both winning at home, but the Bruins picked up three of a possible four points by losing in overtime at Calgary on Dec. 4. ' ' '