Zadani in a ‘home’ atmosphere turned Split to the Fantastic Government’s drive Mihailovic
In the most dramatic match of the final series Zadar was on the flu after the extension celebrated against Split 65-67 and won the Croatian Championship title. The drama reached the highlight a few seconds before the end when the Troika referee did not play Mihailovic’s offense on Jordan in the opinion of Split, and the players in Yellow surrounded Hadzic, Gracin and Stankovic, but they remained mute while the players of Zadar celebrated their fans in the joy of joy.
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Zadrani celebrate the title, Christmas threw in the air
Split refused to surrender, in the final series, in which, after 2-0, in the first two games in Zadar, everyone had already seen a team with a third consecutive title of the champion in their hands, the Yellow returned and deservedly celebrated two home games. But more than that they couldn’t … Zadar celebrates the third consecutive championship title, Split has been waiting for its in 2003, when it was brought to him by Raja, Zdovc, Zizic, Subotic, Sesar and Skansi.
Fantrastic atmosphere on the flu, they would say a real « Zadar », but it would be unfair to the home team fans, because they also cheered their pets and were noisy. Drums, trumpets, palms, voices … They led the battle with a tornado, if it could be called a battle at all, because Zadar fans are the only real Ultras groups in our basketball and as such are dominant. But for the standards of Split it was far better than usual … « Let’s go, yellow … » it echoed from the one hand, and « Play Zadar, we love you » from the other stand.
SPLIT: Fourth game of the Favbet Premier League final, Split against Zadar |
The team of Veljko Mrsic responded well in the first game in which she was not allowed to lose, and in the second they came in with the desire to once again defend the home parquet floor and take the series to the fifth, a decisive match in Zadar. Mrsic started with an identical five – Smith, Shorter, Jordano, Skara and Ljubicic. On the other hand, Yusup began with Mihailovic and Gilbert and three tall, Zganec, Wahla and Ramljak. Even before the start of the match, it was clear that we would look at Zadar’s attempts again to realize the advantage under the hoops and the open shot of Split, only the question was who would be more successful.
At the beginning, Zadar started better, with three Mihailovic, guests arrived at the first more delicate advantage of 2-10, primarily because of the bad shot of the home team. Again, the flow of the ball was weak, again in the last seconds of the attack without a clear vision of what and how to do, so they kicked Nezonzonkli, under the pressure of the expiration of the attack … At the end, the first vacation went with the advantage of Zadar 10-16.
In the second quarter, Split returned to the game with Zon, and with the knuckle of scissors, he arrived at 14-16, and then with a threesome of Jordan, with an additional free throw and up to the advantage of 18-16. « We want to win … » The yellow part of the stands chanted … and their pets continued to dominate. Series 12-0 reached 22-16, which was interrupted by Mihailovic with three. Zon’s defense destroyed Zadar, attempts to play their tall players with their backs of the basket were stopped, and as they did not serve them, even the shot, Split left at halftime with a 30-24 advantage. And which is especially important to them, with more jumps, which in matches with Zadar proved to be a key detail. From there, both a turnaround and an advantage 20-8 in the second quarter. As a curiosity, let’s point out that the only scorer of Zadar in the second quarter was Mihailovic in the mood, as well as that the contribution of the yellow Americans of Shorte and Smith was completely absent …
SPLIT: Fourth game of the Favbet Premier League final, Split against Zadar |
A good game from the first part of the Split team continued to continue, with three Jordan, they reached 35-24, continued dominance and in the jump and several tied shots hit Jordano. However, Zadar did not teach, so at the end of his hand over his hand, he hit the third quarter of Tisma for 50-43.
Three scissors Split opened the last quarter, but two related mistakes of Smith, who was punished by Zadar with three Klarica and the laying of Mihailovic for 53-48. Mrsic went crazy to an experienced American, pulled him out of the game, but after another launch of Mazalina Zadar, he arrived at the threshold threshold, and Tornado woke up: « … again Zadar is the champion of the state … »
In the last five minutes, there were five points of Split, a lot of nervousness and mistakes on both sides. The scissors laid for +7, Žganec returned with three … As the match was going on, nervousness on both sides, about 4,000 spectators at the end of the game, watched on their feet, cheering on their team. A minute and a half before the end, Mihailovic reduces 60-58, Ljubicic misses Zicer and sends an attack by a foul by the best player of Zadar on the free throws, from which Mihailovic is relentless and aligned to 60-60. Wahl blocks stops Shorte, Mihailovic is doing an offense in the attack and leaves Split the possibility of winning the victory in the last 18.5 seconds. But the caps for steps, and in the remaining two and a half seconds, Mihailovic failed to guess, so she went to extension.
And in the extension of the old pain of Split, the first two attacks ended with Nezon long -range shots. Mihailovic honored the launch of Mazalina and hit the three, then Shorter made Faul in the attack, Smith missed Zicer, Wahl scored via Tisma … Hoping the yellow minute before the end returned Jordano with a threesome for 65-67, but in the last 12.8 seconds Split again failed to honor the Kotkirean attack, Mihailovic stopped Jordan’s night.
Split showed in 40 minutes that he could play with Zadar, especially on his plot parquet, but when the match had to be broken, they simply dropped her out of her hands. Kapusta, Shorter and Smith failed to honor anything, and Zadar brought the MVP of the final series Vladimir Mihailovic to victory.
