MEGA EXCELLENT IN PODGORICA, BUDUCNOST IN THE FINISH TO THE WIN

Basketball players of Mega Bemax played an excellent match in Podgorica and were close to winning, but in the end Buducnost VOLI celebrated with with 91:85 (21:31, 20:20, 30:18, 20:16). The players of the coach Dejan Milojevic in the Moraca Sports Center had the lead in the biggest part of the match, up to a maximum of 15 points, but Buducnost in the finish line from the free throw line came to victory. The coach of Mega Bemax on this match for injury could not count on Kostja Mushidi and his first minutes at the court this season in the ABA league had captain Branislav Ratkovica who scored 2 points and had 4 assists.

The most effective in the ranks of Mega Bemax were Goga Bitadze with 23 points and Nikola Miskovic with 14. In Buducnost, Earl Clark scored 20 points and Nemanja Gordic had 16 points.

After 10 rounds, Mega Bemax is in the 3rd place of the ABA league with a 7-3 record, while Buducnost VOLI have 1 win more. In the next round on Saturday, December 15, at 7 pm, Mega Bemax will welcome Crvena zvezda mts.

Dejan Milojevic started the match with Carapic, Asceric, Mokoka, Fundic and Bitadze. Mega perfectly opens the match with the three of Bitadze and dunk of Fundic under the foul, and after a minute of play, the coach of Buducnost called timeout. Fundic is again great under the basket, and Bitadze then hits the new triple and points from the paint for 5:12. Mokoka gets 2 quick personal fouls, but Mega continues with a great game. Carapic bundles 7 points, two heavy drives and a triple, so Mega already has a convincing plus 15, 7:22 after 6 minutes of the game. Buducnost makes 6:0 series which was stopped by points of Ratkovica. Janjic with a triple from the corner and Miskovic with points after offensive rebound kept the advantage, and the result after 10 minutes is 21:31 with 13 points of Bitadze.

Miskovic steals the ball at the beginning of the second quarter and assisted to Marjanovic for great dunk and then he is also great under the basket for plus 14. Buducnost drops the difference to 9 points. Buducnost continues to melt the advantage of Mega, which is now 6 points, and the problem is also 3rd personal foul for Mokoka. Nevertheless, a great response from Mega followed Bitadze’s dunk, the triple of Asceric and Fundic’s points for plus 15, with the excellent defense of Janjic, who cost Buducnost a few lost balls. Gordic hits the three under a foul and result at the half-time is 41:51.

Mokoka on two occasions perfectly penetrated the defense of Buducnost, so Mega maintains a two-digit advantage. Nevertheless, Buducnost with threes melts the difference, so the result is 61:64. Carapić hits lay-up but Nikolic and Sehovic make the first advantage of Buducnost on the match. The result befotr the last 10 minutes is 71:69 for the home team.

Miskovic is unstoppable at the beginning of the last quarter, followed by Bitadze for plus 5, 76:81. The referees called technical to Bitadze and then Jackson hits the three 80:81. Bitadze hits one free throw, and then Mokoka triple for 80:85 to just under 4 minutes to finish. Nevertheless, Future, from the free-throw line, manages to reverse the match and eventually celebrate with 91:85.

Buducnost VOLI: Jackson 13, Su. Sehovic 6, E. Clark 20, Barovic, C. Clarke 14, Se. Sehovic 4, Starovlah, Gordic 16, Z. Nikolic, Omic 6, Popovic 9, Nikolic 3.

Mega Bemax: Janjic 3, Marjanovic 2, Ratkovica 2, Asceric 6, Miskovic 14, Carapic 12 (6 assists), Atic, Bitadze 23 (6 rebounds, 4 blocks), Koprivica, Mokoka 11, Fundic 12 (6 rebounds), Stanic.

Photo: Buducnost VOLI