A new duel with Crvena Zvezda, a new flood and a defeat for great concern, not only before the start of the Euroleague, but for ambitions throughout the season - in the crowded "Morači", the Buducnost Volija basketball players played disastrously against the Belgraders for the second time in 14 days and experienced a debacle ( 71:87).
It's only the beginning of the season, many more games are needed to make a judgment, but Earl Clark, Coty Clark and Edwin Jackson have not yet convinced anyone that they are reinforcements.
Not even for the ABA league, not for the elite competition. Alen Omić didn't impress either, and only defensive "specialist" Eron Kraft showed why he was brought in. Team leader Nemanja Gordić also drowned in the gray...
Basketball is a sport in which statistics can show almost all good or bad sides.
Two figures "reveal" a lot about the game of the Future.
First - 20 percent was the percentage of Buducnost's shots from the field in the first 16 minutes, as only five of 25 attempts were hit. They failed Gordić (6-0), Earl Clark (6-1), Jackson (3-0)... Crvena zvezda had the same number of shots during the same period, but scored 10 more.
The second relates to the performance of new players - 46 points less were given by the players who arrived in Podgorica this summer than the reinforcements of Crvena zvezda, 33 compared to 79!
Only Alen Omić was in double figures (11), Aaron Kraft and Earl Clark scored eight points each, Edwin Jackson six, and Coty Clark none.
On the other side, Stratos Perperoglu scored 20, Mike Cirbes 19, Billy Baron 15, Michael Ojo 11, Joe Ragland eight (with 11 assists), and Muhamed Faye six.
When you add to the volume what is not written in the statistics, about which Aleksandar Džikić also spoke last night at the press conference ("I am most sorry that we did not fight, I have the feeling that we went out on the field and did not give everything. We will talk, or change or there will be changes. Nobody is asking us to be the best team, but talent and quality are for nothing if you don't want to fight 100 percent"), then a convincing defeat is the logical outcome...
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