Triple double with Savana: “Serbs are the first to attack everywhere, and here we are waiting for foreigners as if they were 16 years old!” (video)

Madness in the ABA League, madness in the NBA too. As many as three Serbian clubs made it to the semi-finals of the regional championship, while “across the pond” dominates, and who else but Nikola Jokić. We discussed all current basketball topics with Duško Savanović this week in the new episode of the “Triple Double” show.

Red Star seriously struggled with Student center in the Arena in the first quarter-final match, but in the second she walked in “Morača”.

Totally different team, both of them. It was as if these had fainted, as if the boys from the Student Center realized: We lost our chance in Belgrade, alas, that was our break, we could have taken a point away there, and then finish at home. It broke them. Of course, the star roseshe did not dare to allow herself two such slaps in a row.

Duško Savanović in “Triple double“

Although Zvezda had a lead of +20 on several occasions in that match, Ioannis Sferopoulos he didn’t leave anything to chance, but used time-outs to stop every surge of the home team.

Spheropoulos looked at everything. I think it’s in style: we don’t control any games anymore. He used every opportunity to hold the team, not to relax and not to allow something, God forbid, some scenario that was in Belgrade. So Spheropoulos was very tense there. He didn’t want to allow even a hint of doubt to creep in. He is aware, an experienced coach.

Returned Nikola Topiche arranged his hand and Trey Tompkinsand we finally saw refreshments in the ranks of red and white.

It came to us as a refreshment. The whole year the story revolved around Nedović and Teodosić. This is kind of a new refresh. He is a really good striker, a really potent player on the outside as well. This is the opportunity they have been waiting for, no one is being spared, everyone who has been brought in will give their best, no more calculations. So Nedović and Teo should rest a bit. Topić is also back, he is recovering quickly, he will get back on track. It will contribute with quality. He is the youngest in the ABA league, but he plays maturely and is important to the team.

Hungarian national team player Adam Hanga suffered a broken hand in training before the second quarterfinal match, so he will not be able to help his teammates further in the playoffs.

Adam Hanga is a very important player in Zvezda, he is not an episodic player, he is not someone who will be the 14th player in some rotation, so he does not take off. Adam Hanga is the sixth, seventh player in Zvezda, around whom everything revolves. It is very significant. But Top came back, some other players came to life.

And Partizan also took a walk through Laktaše. With 2:0 in the series, the black and whites booked their ticket to the semi-finals, where they will meet the team The future.

Igokea has some problems with a shortened bench and some unstable roster, injuries. Partizan it helps that they lost once. That’s a good slap in the face in the regular season. Maybe if she didn’t get Igoke in the regular part, maybe a surprise could happen here. But, with that victory in the regular season, I think they put an emphasis on themselves, they drew attention to the fact that they are dangerous and that if Partizan relaxes or whoever meets them in the playoffs, in this case Partizan, it is possible to easily lose.

Uroš Trifunović and Mateusz Ponitka after a long time have finally provided great rolls.

Trife was somewhere, he took advantage of some moments that Željko gave him, but it is difficult to keep some form with some changing minutes. But, Ponitka was gone for a long time, and he is a stranger. Serbs outside of Serbia, when we play in clubs, we are the first to be attacked. If we are the leaders of the team, if one of our players is the leader, if someone makes a mistake when it’s busy, he gets fired first. We allow the foreigner to warm up, we wait and wait for him, we give credit as if he is 16 years old, as if he came to develop here, and not to give a concrete result. He wasn’t there, he really isn’t there, and a good player, I think he’s great. It’s lucky that Željko had a longer roster, so nothing was on fire. I don’t know how the season would have developed if it had been different…

The third Serbian club in the semi-finals ABA League is also Megawhich she eliminated quite easily Cedevita Olympia also in two matches.

It is surprising for them that they are making a team for affirmation. Of course, they have the highest goals. They play to give those guys a chance to fly. There are some tragic, comical moments at the beginning of the season, when things start to grind to a halt, when they can’t get their act together, so they lose some games. Their first game against Cedevita is the most beautiful game I have watched. Not because of the number of points, but because of the way of the game. Those are all solutions from the counter, you don’t know where to shoot. It’s the one who scores, the one who jumps, the one who flies, decisions, solutions. Their impudence, they are young, positive impudence. They come into contact, that there is respect, that they are not afraid of anyone.

Nikola Djurišić and Andrija Jelović enter the NBA draftMiško Ražnatović confirmed.

I’m sorry that the audience of Serbian basketball is suffering. Basketball is not good if our best players are not there. Imagine our league, what it would be like if all our foreigners, like in the time of Yugoslavia, were all here, everything we have in Europe and the NBA league had to play. It would be quality, again they would be players as players, good, phenomenal, great, but we would enjoy it more as an audience. And as for the development itself, I don’t regret that they go to a better place, to go to good clubs, to develop, so somewhere, maybe with mediocre ones, somewhere with great coaches, to play and chase better leagues. I don’t think he should go somewhere not to play, not to develop, but if he can go and play and earn money, I don’t think it can be harmful.

Duško Savanović in “Triple Double”

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