A one-ball match was played by SC Derbi against one of the favorites, but in the end that ball did not "listen" to the guy who played a memorable match...
The "Students" were defeated by Dubai in the 7th round of the AdmiralBet ABA League (87:86), after Eric Neal, the home team's point guard, who until then buried the basket (34 points) of the rich team from Asia, got tangled up in the last attack.
"Nil deserved to have that ball, he played phenomenally and I don't have much to blame for him or the boys," said Petar Mijović, coach of SC Derbi.
His boys mostly "chased" the rival, and when they caught up with him, they missed the opportunity to perhaps take a crucial step towards victory.
"The boys played with their heart, in certain moments very well, but when we were catching the connection and when we could valorize everything with a certain advantage that would mean a lot for us psychologically, I think we accelerated certain solutions. However, considering the age and the role that some have for the first time in their career, all that was somewhere and expected, and a tribute that we will pay in the coming period as well", Mijović added.
He also turned to a powerful newcomer to the league.
"We played a good game against an extremely high-quality team that has already defeated the Euroleagues and whose team consists of more than 80 percent of players who played in the Euroleague or Eurocup. This clearly speaks of their ambitions, how they built the team and what their goals are," he emphasized. Mijović.
In general, as he says, the impression is very good.
"We had the ball to win over one of the four best teams in the league... I'm sorry that we didn't crown everything with a better last attack, but I think that we 'sold our skin dearly' and that we fairly tortured the favorite," says the coach of the "students" .
At the beginning of the press conference, he also had a message for a little girl who was injured yesterday in a traffic accident in Podgorica.
"I would like to wish the daughter of our friend employed at KK Budućnost a speedy recovery - that she leave the Clinical Center as soon as possible and return home. That is my first wish," said Mijović.
He also had a message for the victims of yesterday's accident at the railway station in Novi Sad.
"I want to express my condolences to everyone who lost their loved ones," added Mijović.
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