VALENCIA (Jeff Taylor's Eurovision) - One team after another has fallen hard to the United States at the FIBA Basketball World Cup.

Will Serbia be next?

If the team from the Balkans fails to derail the Americans in Sunday's Final in Madrid, the USA will have back-to-back world titles for the first time in their famous history.

As I see it, Klay Thompson, a 2.00m shooting guard, is the United States' most valuable player and arguably the best player in the tournament.

Thompson has not only been the team's most reliable source of points, the Golden State Warrior guard has been a terrific player on defense.

He leads the USA with an average of 23.8 minutes per game.

It helps that Thompson is surrounded by terrific USA coaching staff, and other wonderful players.

Only two teams have made things uncomfortable for United States.

Turkey, with NBA center Omer Asik a giant presence on defense, led the Americans for nearly three quarters.

They controlled the tempo and made a lot of jump shots but the dam eventually burst under the USA pressure defense and Coach Mike Krzyzewski’s team pulled away for a 98-77 victory.

Lithuania matched up well inside against the USA with their front court that included NBA center Jonas Valanciunas as well as Paulius Jankunas and the Lavrinovic brothers, Darjus and Ksistof.

After trailing against the USA by eight at half-time, however, Lithuania caved in and lost, 96-68.

Now only Serbia has a chance to prevent the Americans from winning back-to-back world titles.

Here is what will happen.

The USA defense will zero in on Serbia's main offensive weapon, Milos Teodosic, and force someone else to try and beat them.

They would be stupid not to.

Teodosic, who has been known over the years in equal measure not only for his dynamic playmaking and shooting skills but a questionable temperament, has never played better for Serbia.

He was the game-winner in both the Quarter-Final success against Brazil and the narrow Semi-Final triumph over France.

Against the Brazilians, Teodosic buried three of five shots from beyond the arc en route to 23 points in an 84-56 win.

He was mesmerizing in the 90-85 victory over France in the Semi-Finals with a five-of-seven effort from long range on his way to 24 points.

If Thompson is a strong MVP candidate for the USA, there is no doubt that Teodosic could scoop the honor if Serbia spring the upset and win the championship.

"Milos is an unbelievable player for me right now," said Serbia coach Sasha Djordjevic.

"He's an MVP of this competition, absolutely.

"Without a doubt, he brought us here with his knowledge of the competition. He led us here.

"He is a leader of this team. I've tried to explain to him that importance of the other part of being Milos Teodosic. Not only the player, but also the person that we all need and look up to.

"A leader has to be positive, stay positive to be what he really is right now."

Teodosic wasn't always positive four years ago, when Serbia suffered the cruelest of Semi-Final defeats to Turkey

After the disappointment of missing out on the 2012 Olympics, and a seventh-place finish at EuroBasket 2013, Serbia have rediscovered how to win.

They have launched a new era under Djordjevic and made it to the title game.

Yugoslavia won FIBA World Championship titles but Serbia is not Yugoslavia.

This is a big, big opportunity for the country.

The USA and Serbia have been the best teams in Spain and deserve to square off for the championship.

So how are we going to look back on this competition?

If the United States prevail by a big margin, we can say that international basketball was lucky to have such a great team.

The only way the other countries can get better is to go up against the best.

Whether Serbia spring the upset or not, they have had a tremendous run.

Jeff Taylor

FIBA

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