I have seen brutal games. I have seen debil audience, raging fans, idiotic, corrupted referees, primitive players. I have seen fans clashing, I have seen and heard more than often when an entire tribune swears at the opponent team, the referee or the fans of the other side.
But I have never seen anything like this in Podgorica.
I may even admit, Budućnost-fans surpassed even red fans. Though they are definitely a hardcore group.
Not to mention the referees... It’s one thing that whenever they whistled, it was for Budućnost, but they didn’t even lift a hand to do something against fan violence.
Just a reminder: you know, dear referees, there is that thing called public address system. You know, that thing when a guy speaks into the microphone and the entire hall can hear it. You could have simply gone to that guy and ask him to say it into the mic something like "pleasekeepsupportingyourteaminthespiritoffairplaythankyou". What is more, you could have even paused the game. Just sayin’.
The first quarter was a struggle. Nothing wanted to work. It was 7:2, our first basket came after 3 minutes (by Dragan Milosavljević). Then it was 12:4. This was the point when Josh Akognon tried to bring the spirit back to the team and scored two 3-pointers. The difference was reduced to two points (12:10). Pavlović was also unwilling to just give up (13:12), despite being fouled twice.
Then came Murić with a giant 3-pointer. 13:15, the standing switched to our side.
It brought the steam roller out of Milosavljević and his Captain powers, he increased the difference to 17:22. The
In the second quarter we continued with our great series, like e.g. this:
The second quarter brought out our best. We were on the lead for the whole time always with just a few points, demonstrating that we were still better than them. Then this happened at 38:43.
Everyone could see live Dragan Milosavljević being hit by someone. And everyone could see referees doing nothing, absolutely nothing. This is the most revolting of it all that these three corrupted rats didn’t even raise their eyebrows on such obvious injustices. Neither them, nor the officials of ABA Liga being present.
Just a side note: the audience yelled the most disgusting words to Saša Pavlović and Duško Vujošević. For Pavlović the most moderate was "traitor". So far no news source mentioned ABA Liga to come up with any sanction against Budućnost for this unfair attitude of fans - neither for this case, nor for the rest that were yet to come.
At the end of the quarter the standing was 43:44 (that was also the half-time result) hell broke loose. The terrified Average Fan could see only that members of the two teams literally clash in a fight, hitting each other.
Budućnost’s two players, Cook and Paunić started to hit Murić and Pavlović. The reasons are still unknown, but for sure they didn’t reach our players to be best friends forever. Nevertheless referees chose the most effective (LOL) solution in the beginning of the third quarter.
They put technical foul on both Murić and Pavlović.
(Some say Cook and Paunić also got technical, but you know, seeing is believing, and I didn’t see anything.)
Somehow Partizan’s pace slowed down after this incident. Budućnost equalized (46:46), they even took the lead (49:48), then something happened again.
This happened.
(photo: Twitter)
Dragan Milosavljević’s forehead was wounded, blood ran down on the Captain’s face. He got a bandage on it and came back to the court with wrapped head.
A hero.
We tried to keep the pace in the openly hostile surroundings. We did things like this.
Or like this.
Tepa is a good boy, he helps wherever he can.
For a short while we took back the lead (62:66), then Budućnost equalized from free throw (66:66), but despite all we ended the quarter with 66:69.
We kept this pace even in the beginning of the last quarter. It wasn’t easy, our 3-pointers didn’t want to fall into the ring at all. Milosavljević was fouled out, Budućnost put us under great pressure, and for the end they switched the standing to their side (72:71). But then came Saša Pavlović.
But his 3-pointer he threw after this one was not validated, it was booked only as a simple basket. (72:76) Oh, well... We were still on the lead, Akognon also scored a 3-pointer (72:79), because it is always better to be safe than sorry. Average Fan started to hear happily chirping birds (with mental ears), when Saša Pavlović was fouled out. And from that point on referees did everything to make Budućnost the winner of this game.
They did everything before as well, but from this point on they didn’t even try to cover it.
The Podgorica team equalized (79:79), with an extra gift bonus throw (80:79). Meanwhile Mačvan fell on the court after someone pushed him. He hit his head into the parquette so heavily that he could leave the ground only with help. No, referees still didn’t whistle. The tribune was on fire, referees at this point wanted to just go home most probably, but before leaving they had to go to the cashier for their payment. They worked hard for the money indeed.
Here is a video which was titled "thriller ending" by ABA Liga, they couldn’t make it any more cynical... The proper title would have been "scandal".
There are highlights, too.
Budućnost has given out an official statement, where they apologize to Duško Vujošević. Only to him, but not to Saša Pavlović, Edo Murić or Dragan Milosavljević.
Nice job, idiots. I hope, ABA League will pat your stupid heads for this.
Partizan nevertheless made it to the Final Four together with Crvena Zvezda, Budućnost and Cedevita. Our first match will be - heavenily happiness - against the red team. Dates come later, now Partizan joins the Serbian national basketball league, where they play against Konstantin on Saturday.
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