KK Partizan - Mega Leks 82:68 (SuperLiga Srbija)

Whose idea was this to start this match right at the same time as football?
Who was this perverted bastard?
I can’t believe they couldn’t postpone it, let’s say, to 8 pm. Or to Sunday. It’s unbelievable. It was on purpose, to mock fans.
We could make a deal even with ABA League, to postpone matches with an hour or two, or to play it rather on Sunday, or maybe on Monday, so fans can watch (or attend to) both matches. Plus the League always uploaded all matches, full ones to Youtube, while at the same time bombarding fans with memorable game moments and match highlights. And now there is only one piece of highlights, found in the depths of internet, that is barely longer than a minute

a million thanks to the uploader, saving the life of many fans

because the goddamned STATE-OWNED TV STATION sits on the recording of the match like a pregnant elephant, not wanting to give it out. But even RTS Sport’s own Youtube-channel lacks the highlights. There’s not even just half a minute there from the match.
I wish your mother had a headache on that certain night.
As an extra, fans were not allowed to the game. The teams played in front of empty tribunes, because Partizan allegedly had some punishment from the previous (!!!) season.
That season, when Gogić’s jacket fetisism came to light.
A very few fans could still make it and sneaked in to the game. Not much, but still there were some.
The match started with a touching gesture. The whole team was wearing such T-shirts before starting the game, sending their support to former team member Davis Bertans, who got seriously injured recently, on the similar knee he had injured during his time at Partizan, when he had to undergo surgery and long months of recovery.

Everyone had this T-shirt on.

Bertans was deeply moved. He sent his greetings to his former team via Instagram.

I tako mi gledamo utakmicu sa crno-belim @rockyjr42 i on je isto #grobar

A photo posted by Davis Bertans (@dbertans_42) on Apr 4, 2015 at 9:22am PDT

Otherwise, all reports mention Partizan having a "routine win" over Mega Leks. Mačvan played everyone off the ground with his 17 points, followed by Pavlović (14 points), Tepić (13) and Milosavljević (12).
There are some photos I found.

Warming up is the heart and soul of every match

Edo Murić

Bezbradica some time during the match

The Captain

Tepa with Dejan Musli in the background

Old friends meet

Handshake with Maki, too

Applause for the few fans who attended

Match highlights:

And a message to Dejan Musli,
You come back to Partizan. It's not a request or an order. It's an indicative sentence. Your place is here. Period.

Current championship standings:

1. FMP 4 points
2. Partizan 4 points
3. Vojvodina 3 points
4. Crvena Zvezda 2 points*
5. Metalac 2 points*
6. Konstantin 2 points
7. Tamis 2 points
8. Mega Leks 2 points

Teams marked with * played only 1 game so far.

(Photos: Twitter)

Mega Leks - KK Partizan 73:75 (Adriatic League)

Everything started with the warm-up.

Josh Akognon was watching from the tribune

Dejan Musli came to the start from Mega Leks.

We miss you, Dejan. Not just a bit, but a lot. Damn, it was just awful :(

Mega Leks had a better start (4:0), then it was gone, thanks to Saša Pavlović (7:2) and Dragan Milosavljević. The latter one made a great alley-oop figure at 9:9 assisted by Pavlović. (If I find any video about it, I’ll post it here, it was a great sight.) For the end of the quarter Mačvan sped up, increasing our advantage to 10 points (15:25). The result of the period was 17:25, Adriatic League’s Mickey Mouse, aka Miljenović could have a score left.
The second quarter was about Mačvan.
He unleashed the beast within and washed up the floor with Mega Leks. (17:29)

Was it just me, or did Musli really missed out a lot of chances by intention and tried to avoid Partizan’s paint as much as he could?

We increased our advantage with Marinković’s 3-pointer (18:32), then came a long silence. We missed out a lot of chances. Throws dropped down from the ring or flew out by the backboard. We were out of our best form, to say the least. It was just a crumb of comfort that the opponent team had the same problems. Yet Fortune decided to prefer Mega Leks, they slowly but surely reduced the difference and didn't stop until 27:32.
That was the point when Mačvan got fed up.
The time had come for him.
It was unbelievable what he did. That guy was the Chernobyl reactor himself. Meanwhile Mega Leks got dangerously close to us, the difference was only 3 points (34:37). Mačvan made here such an alley-oop that the ceiling almost fell down (34:39), then Andrić’s free throw could bring the half-time rest (34:41).

Dejan,

You must come back to Partizan. It’s a must. It’s beyond question. It was terrible for us. I’m sure it was the same for you as well. Come back. Or I tear out your ugly beard pile by pile.

The third quarter was still about missed chances. It all started to remind of a basketball-parody from a Z-category comedy. After a long time finally Mega Leks broke the silence (36:41), but the difference got reduced to 3 points again due to the too many missed chances (40:43). Finally Murić put himself into action. First he scored a basket with a bonus shot (40:46), then he wanted to score again. The ball got rebound, a player from the opponent grabbed it, but Murić stole it, ran up and made a dunk. (40:48)

Then it all looked again like a comedy show. We finished the quarter with 46:54, it all looked as if the ball avoided the ring on purpose.

In the last period Mačvan increased the difference back to 10 points (50:60). Then the scoreboard showed 57:62, as we still missed chances. The difference was less and less (61:64), finally Pavlović and Mačvan took the team on their back (63:69). At 67:71 the duo made a fantastic teamwork (67:73), but Mega Leks realized at this point that they might have even won this match. They increased the pace.

An amazing circus started here. The last 5 seconds of the match lasted for 3 minutes. The standing was 72:73. Numerous fouls, timeout on both sides, teams were on the edge of exploding. Andrić scored from free throw (72:75), and there was one for Mega Leks in the last second. But Kešelj’s hand trembled, he missed out one throw, making the end result to 73:75. We won’t put this match on display, but at least we won and that’s the most important.

Highlights:

You can watch the entire match here.

(Photos: Twitter, abaliga.com)

Last news-collection of the year

Marko Nikolić stays at Partizan.
So far it’s still unofficial, the news leaked out after today’s (Tuesday) team management meeting. The team leadership had an official press release, too, which is properly evasive and self-adulating. The main (hidden) point is that the management got scared of the possible fury and rage of Grave Diggers.

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Still talking about Marko Nikolić: Novi Pazar filed a lawsuit against Partizan’s trainer for libel. Nikolić had a heated dispute with the referee of the match played at the beginning of December, then at the post-match press conference he said angrily: this weekend was the rock bottom of Serbian football, adding, it was not the first case such things had happened in Novi Pazar.
Redžep Korać, Novi Pazar’s secretary general said, Marko Nikolić "heated up religious and national arguments among people living in Serbia with his nationalistic words". He added: such words and actions are criminal acts upon the laws of Serbia, with the possible sentence of two to five years of imprisonment. Novi Pazar’s secretary general said, he hoped everyone would learn to take responsibility for their words and actions once and for all, even if this person in question is Partizan’s trainer.
It shows well the seriousness of the case that even deputy prime minister Rasim Ljajić had a word, questionning the efficiency of the police for still not finding the fan who hit Marko Nikolić on the head with a firecracker.

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Milenko Tepić got injured on Partizan’s Tuesday training. There are no informations on the seriousness of his injury, how much pause he’ll need, if he needs any.
Saša Pavlović will be able to return at the match against Cedevita on 3rd January, if all goes well. But Edo Murić needs at least 2 more weeks for complications. We won’t be able to see him playing before 17th January.

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Former Partizan basketball player Dejan Musli signed to Mega Leks.

Eurocup draws: KK Partizan in Group E

Eurocup draws were held today at noon. According to them KK Partizan is now in Group E of Conference 2, together with Lietuvos Vilnius, Hapoel Jerusalem, Banvit Bandirma, Volgograd and Asesoft Ploiesti.

The group stage, as follows:

Conference 1

Group A
Brose Baskets Bamberg (GER)
CAI Zaragoza (ESP)
Grissin Bon Reggio Emilia (ITA)
Strasbourg (FRA)
Paris Levallois (FRA)
Telekom Baskets Bonn (GER)

Group B
Pallacanestro Cantu (ITA)
Herbalife Gran Canaria (ESP)
Telenet Oostende (BEL)
ASVEL Lyon Villeurbanne (FRA)
JDA Dijon (FRA)
Artland Dragons (GER)

Group C
ČEZ Nymburk (CZE)
Baloncesto Sevilla (ESP)
Virtus Roma (ITA)
Belgacom Spirou Charleroi (BEL)
SLUC Nancy (FRA)
EWE Baskets Oldenburg (GER)

Conference 2

Group D
Khimki Moscow (RUS)
Besiktas IF (TUR)
Zenit St. Petersburg (RUS)
VEF Riga (LTV)
Union Olimpija Ljubljana (SLO)
Szolnoki Olaj (HUN)

Group E
Lietuvos Rytas Vilnius (LTH)
Banvit Bandirma (TUR)
Krasny Oktyabr Volgograd (RUS)
Partizan Beograd (SRB)
Hapoel Jerusalem (ISR)
CSU Asesoft Ploiesti (ROM)

Group F
Lokomotiv Kuban (RUS)
Pinar Karsiyaka Izmir (TUR)
Budućnost VOLI Podgorica (MNE)
Ventspils (LTV)
Stelmet Zielona Góra (POL)
PAOK Thessaloniki (GRE)

Something that Partizan-fans might find interesting, in Group D's Khimki plays Joffrey Lauvergne, while Budućnost (Group F) has Dejan Musli among their players.
Group stage starts in mid-October.

Update:
Partizan will start the group stage against Lietuvos Rytas on 15th October.