The Basketball players of Buducnost lead 1-0 in the semi-final of the Erste Superliga, as they took advantage of the home court against Lovcen (97:90).
The team from Podgorica, who saw Nemanja Gordic play again (only Petar Popović was missing), gained the victory by hard work and had a one-point advantage (42:41) at the half.
The uncertainty lasted even further, and the decision was made in the very end. At the score of 93:90 for home team, Milutin Djukanovic missed an open three-points for a tie with one minute and a half before the end, and in the next attack Filip Barovic scored for 95:90, and then Lovcen missed another attack.
Sead Sehovic was the last one to score points, though the guests refused to defend the last attack, and almost all the players started to greet each other. The slam dunk of young Sehovic, in the end, justified the nervousness of the guests.
"I did not randomly say that Lovcen is a tough team, well trained, which knows what it wants in both directions. We have continued the trend of a pretty much soft defense, we have received 90 points from Lovcen at home, and until the end, we cannot have a lighter solution to any match," said Buducnost coach Petar Mijovic after the match.
"The other players, realistically, are overwhelmed with all that this season has brought. The calendar is congested; they play every other day, and, believe it, despite the severe dissatisfaction with the way we function in the defense, many are on the brink of power. In this situation, we are looking at how to refresh them well and wait for the next match with a full squad. The match was extremely tough and hard, at some moments when we took control of the game in our hands, Lovcen returned with an extraordinary percentage of three-pointers and punished our defensive ideas. So now, we will have a playoff, and getting half of a point or 40 points difference, in any case, we have a lead of 1:0," added Mijovic.
Text by Sasa Joncic, on May 15th, 2019, read more at Vijesti
