Dario Saric and Croatia probably won't collect a gold medal in Rio, but they'll gladly accept their new status as Olympic underdog darlings.
Saric's last-second rejection of a Pau Gasol lay-in helped Croatia down powerhouse Spain by a final score of 72-70 Sunday, further muddying a group stage already complicated by France's blowout loss the day before.
Both presumptive Team USA challengers have now fallen in their opening efforts, and Lithuania, another theoretical threat, barely survived its first game. More on that later.
This is about Croatia's sweet upset—which it was, according to Saric himself, via John Schuhmann of NBA.