There was Novica Veličković...
...Danilo Anđušić...
...Aleksandar Mitrović...
...Aleksandar Atanasijević.
...as well as Jan Vesely and Bogdan Bogdanović.
Visiting my family last night with Jan Vesely ! ! ! #partizan #belgrade
Posted by Bogdan Bogdanovic on Tuesday, June 16, 2015
When these two players entered, Pionir Hall exploded. They got an amazingly warm, loving welcome, that only Pionir Hall can give to its former players.
National team coach Saša Đorđević was watching the game, too, from the VIP-tribune.
(screenshot)
The team started to warm up way before the arrival of the guests. It is always elemental.
Then the match started.
Not even one and a half minutes have passed when Lazić already got his second personal foul. Blažič hit Pavlović on the face, and when he was fouled for this, he just threw the ball to Pavlović.
(photo: sportske.net)
The standing was 4:4. Pavlović, who was burning on 10 000°C already at this point made a giant block - as a result, referees whistled free throw for Zvezda. Not much later Đumić also got his second personal foul (barely 3 minutes passed from the game...). The two teams had a nip-and-tuck game. We switched the standing from 8:11 to 12:11. From 12:15 we equalized with Pavlović’s amazing 3-pointer (15:15), and we even took back the lead (17:15). Duško Vujošević got into heated debates with the referees every now and then, while Andrić was fouled after Kalinić hit him (!!!). Milosavljević was also hit inside Zvezda’s paint, but none of the referees seemed to be interested. Even at this point it was clear we’d have a tough game against a 8-member team. We finished the first quarter with 17:19.
With lots of love, from the fans of Partizan
In the second quarter Zvezda switched the pace of defense to "brutal", while referees kept on giving us fouls. Still we switched from 17:21 with blood, sweat and the scores of Tepić and Mačvan to 22:21, when something happened. There was an upheaval at Zvezda’s bench.
As we got to know, an angry Partizan-fan threw a chair to Jović. Maybe the target wasn’t actually Jović (or maybe he indeed was), nevertheless the chair hit the Zvezda-player’s head. Jović was surrounded immediately by medicals and finally he left the court and walked to the locker-room with an icebag on his head.
Players were a bit confused
The match could eventually continue, Pavlović equalized (23:23), but from this point on things really started to be very tough for Partizan. Referees openly whistled against us, while Zvezda-players switched to moron mode. Blažič intentionally - and brutally - pushed Milutinović to the floor (it was so clear that the referees had to give us a free throw, though they did not whistle technical foul to Blažič), then Williams smashed Dallo brutally. At this point there was no foul or free throw. But when Milutinović tried to block a Zvezda-attack, the referees didn’t just validated the score but gave an extra bonus shot to Zvezda (31:37). Mačvan reduced the difference (34:39), we finished the first half with 36:40.
Mitrović cheering for Partizan
In the half-time Bogdanović was surrounded by journalists
In the half-time break there was some terribly corny music flowing from the speakers, for the great amusement of Grave Diggers. (I do not want to get into details, as I would cross the delicate borders of political correctness - in short, everyone who knows what’s going on will laugh at it as hard as I did.)
In the third quarter we took back the lead with the scores of Tepić and Mačvan (41:40). Then Milosavljević equalized (43:43), while Zirbes was hanging on him with all his weight. Then Tepić was brutally pushed down by Kalinić. No foul, no free throw, nothing happened.
Pavlović couldn’t watch it passively. Zvezda came up for an attack, Pavlović ran up and clashed into Kalinić with full force, so much that Zvezda’s player flew out of the court with an elegant arch. Pavlović immediately got a technical foul. Then Milutinov got an offensive foul, who knows, why. Duško Vujošević complained heavily, referees gave him a technical foul as well, as an answer. After the lot of free throws Zvezda increased their advantage to 43:51, even making the 10-point difference (45:55). We finished the quarter with 51:58.
In the final part we reduced the difference to 2 points with Marinković’s fantastic 3-pointer (he could even throw an extra bonus shot) and Milutinov’s hook. This time Kalinić pushed Dallo to the ground. Dallo stood up, bent very closely to Kalinić, right into his face and whispered there what Zvezda’s player should do and with whom.
My life for a video. Or at least a gif.
The unsportsmanlike behaviour was clear, so we got a free throw. We equalized (58:58). Kalinić switched the moron mode to full force
interesting, while Blažič is this backboneless rat-alike idiot, Kalinić plays the dirty, stuck-up asshole card
Zvezda increased their difference to 58:64. We reduced it to 63:64 with the 3-pointers of Tepić and Pavlović. Zvezda wanted so much to increase the difference, but we kept on hanging on their back. Finally Mačvan equalized (69:69), Marinković was so happy with it that he jumped on Mačvan and hugged him.
Then, in the very last minute Zvezda got a free throw. The first shot got to the ring (69:70).
The second rebounded! We can still make a counter-attack!!! There are a few seconds left!
But no.
Because Kalinić jumped up, caught the rebound and smashed it into the ring with an evil grin.
69:72.
And after all these this rotten bastard ran up to the Grave Diggers after the end buzz and made it clear what a wonderful, fair-play knight sportsman he is.
May it be a terrible example for everyone.
At the other side Partizan-players were desperate.
Marinković was especially down. Here he is comforted by Milutinović
Tepić comforts Pavlović
And if it’s still not enough, the basketball association punished Partizan for that chair-throwing incident. Partizan must pay 200 000 dinars and they must play their next home court match behind closed doors.
Third match will be on Thursday, from 21:00.
(Unmarked photos: Twitter)
