Even after the 11th round of the AdmiralBet ABA League, the Sailors' basketball players have only one win - Barani lost to FMP (81:76) in "Topolica" last night, so they remained in last place in the table.
Mornar was in a score deficit from the second quarter, and on two occasions had a 12-point deficit, which he was unable to compensate for.
"I congratulate FMP on the well-deserved victory, and I wish my colleague Aleksić good luck in his debut season. We had time to prepare for this game, we prepared all week, but it didn't produce results, especially in the first half. Everything we prepared in we played against the defense, just unbelievable. I didn't put any pressure on the players, and I don't know if maybe that pressure did its job that we just can't remember the simplest agreement how let's defend their strongest pick and roll game," said the coach of Sailors, Mihailo Pavićević, after the match.
Pavićević singled out one FMP player.
"Matic Rebec did what he wanted in the first half, and we just watched silently. Then we entered the bonus, not to say a harsher word, with completely unnecessary fouls that were committed in situations in which even an intelligent player never commits a foul " said Pavićević.
Pavićević is not satisfied with either the attack or the defense.
"The attack is a special story. We prepare all week to take advantage of the opponent's weaknesses and then in the game we don't try anything. In the first half we tried what we imagined once and it was a basket and a foul. We have a huge problem in the organization of the attack, it's more than evidently. The defense was disastrous in the second half. But, as far as the attack is concerned, it didn't look like a team game. We simply don't have a player who can stop on the ball, to organize a good attack, to know when we need something. We play elemental basketball, to put it another way, it went over our heads against FMP," Pavićević said.
The coach of the Sailors was very dissatisfied with the attack.
"It is rare that anything good can happen from an unorganized attack. With the idea we entered the match with and, I repeat, we prepared for it all week, then in the match we hardly ever did it, but we played one to two passes at most and then whoever takes the ball plays a solo game and the result is what it is."
Marnar is visiting Dubai in the next round.
"I repeat, these are players who have "smelled" the ABA league and don't know what level of basketball this is. Without underestimating, they think that this is the level where they played before, and the ABA league is serious and you can't play like that in it Before the match, I told them that a very difficult match awaits us and that FMP is a very experienced team in the key positions, in the point guard and in the position of high players, and that combination established by Rebec and Novak gave results. They punished every mistake we made in defense," Pavićević explained.
The sailor had a chance to catch the port, but the attack just wasn't good.
"In the end, we got into a situation where, perhaps, we made the game more uncertain, but then we had unreasonable and hasty shots, although I said at every time-out that we are not in a hurry to shoot and that we need certain points. We took shots for no reason, especially in that end where we needed certain points, and we, quite simply, missed all the unnecessary shots for three points and the penalty arrived," concluded Pavićević.
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