Gosh, it was just terrible.
Pionir Hall had a brutal full house. Even the previous match was a total, absolute full house, but reports said, at this one there were even more people.
Fans were holding a banner with Bogdan Bogdanović before the match.
Members of the football team could be seen, too, on the tribunes. They surely arrived in a mortal hurry from ul. Humska.
If you look into the VIP-section, dear visitors, you can see other legends as well.
The moment when the two trainers shake hands.
The body language says it all. The always nervous, always restless Radonjić vs. the calm, cold, almost fish-blooded Duško Vujošević...
The beginning was actually not that bad. Milosavljević tricked the big and slow Marjanović in a way that Average Fan applaused.
Milutinov presented then a GIANT slam dunk (I was searching all over Youtube for a video - I found none, there is this photo only). (6:0)
Then Zvezda started to reduce the difference (6:5). Still, the red team was absolutely nervous, Mitrović got two personal fouls within the first 3 minutes. Murić put himself into action and scored 4 points (10:5).
Murić was definitely the best player of Partizan at this game.
Kalinić entered the game at this moment, he got a warm (not...) welcome with whistles, booing and hissing. Kalinić probably also decided to win the Moron of the Year Award, because he immediately started to mock Saša Pavlović.
Meanwhile Mačvan worked hard to increase the difference. At 14:9 he pushed the ball into the ring from almost the other side of the backboard (16:9). Murić scored as well, in a rather imposing way (18:11), Tepić made the difference to be two-digit (21:11). But Williams pushed himself hard, and after his 3-pointers we ended the first part with 24:22.
In the second quarter wrestling got started. Rolling on the floor, killing each other discreetly, but surely. In the meantime Milutinov blocked Kalinić with an elegant and totally humbling movement. A few moments later he did the same to Zirbes, what a joy it was to see it.
At this point of the game both teams missed out a lot of chances. Not as if I’d be terribly sorry for Zvezda’s fumblings, but when our players were blocked, well, those were tough moments. Mačvan was again heavily disliked by the referees, plus we paid the price of all the lost chances: Zveza equalized (30:30).
Fouls started to happen again. Just like at the previous matches.
Now we all know what it means.
Those were right who said "free throw gifts for Zvezda".
The standing switched to 32:35.
The half time result was 36:38, Murić scored soon before the end.
The second half was much worse.
In the third quarter Zvezda used their "brickwall" mode for defending. It was terrible. Marjanović was on full speed. Referees took our simple blocks as fouls. The whole quarter was bitter, teeth-clenching and full of struggles. Zvezda was always ahead with 1-2-3 points. Once we could equalize, Kalinić got a technical foul after continuously picking at Saša Pavlović. Pavlović punished them ruthlessly (49:49). Fouls came after fouls, with barely any field goals. Murić scored a few, he threw one even at the very end of the period (58:64).
The last quarter was a nightmare.
Who knows what kind of doping Williams took before the game, but he was on an inhumane speed. Kalinić brought the maximum out of the "assholesteron" drug. He literally sat on Murić, the referee didn’t whistle, yet he whistled technical foul on Mačvan, God knows, why. It was too much even for Mačvan.
"Mr. Referee, are you really this idiot, or you worked on it?"
"Screaming Jesus on a Ferris-wheel, he is really this idiot..."
...and if even Duško Vujošević thinks you are this idiot, then you’re hopeless.
Zvezda was still on the lead, the difference grew slowly but surely to 5-6 points (64:70). Meanwhile Milosavljević was fouled out, after he was pushed on the ground (!). The difference was almost two-digit (68:77), but thanks to Tepić’s free throws, we could control it (70:77). A Zvezda-player made a foul - no whistle. Murić did the same - immediate whistle, foul, free throw for Zvezda (70:78). In the last moments Kalinić was also fouled out, but it didn’t make any difference. Grave Diggers were showing love and support for Partizan in the last moments, even before the final whistle.
The last score was Bezbradica’s free throw (73:81).
The match ended with scandal. Partizan-fans overwhelmed Zvezda’s bench and players with all the small (and bigger) signs of their pure love. (They threw smaller objects at them, making the whole red team running back fast to their locker-room.) There were still post-match interviews on, SportKlub’s reporter was talking to the red team captain, when noises of physical fight could be heard in the background.
As it was found out later, the culprit was that same, small, fat, pig-headed Zvezda-fan who threw a torch among Partizan-players last year, after the Serbian superliga eternal derby.
In the meantime reporters talked to Josh Akognon, who played especially weak during the game. Akognon said, an injury recurrenced for him, and he had severe shoulder pains for the entire match.
...and dear visitors, that was all. Adriatic League dreams are over, Euroleague dreams are over, there is only the Serbian superliga left.
(Photos: Facebook/KK Partizan)
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