I feel that you should never underestimate any team good or bad, but I believe we are going to pass to the next stage of the competition and in the end win the whole tournament," said Cizmic, who is playing for the third time for his country after also playing at the FIBA U16 European Championship 2014. "Our objective is very clear - Division A."
The 6ft 8in (2.04m) forward said the FIBA U18 European Championship 2016 in Samsun was a learning experience.
"Every game you play you learn something new. I gained a lot of experience that will hopefully help me help the team not repeat the same mistakes we made in Turkey," Cizmic said.
Learning from past mistakes is something Cizmic has been doing his whole life in basketball since his father Teo Cizmic played a number of years professionally around Europe including Israel - which is where Leo was born in December 1998 - Turkey, Belgium and Croatia. He also played with Dejan Bodiroga and Zeljko Rebraca on the Yugoslavia national team at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup 1991.
"I just followed in his footsteps since an early age," Leo says of his father. Things indeed come early for Leo - in December 2015 became the youngest player in Sevilla history to play an ACB game, three days after his 17th birthday.