Enormous potential, immense talent and excellent work in clubs were evident in the final four of the Montenegrin Pioneer League in basketball. Slavija from Podgorica won, defeating the regular season leader, Nikšić Basket, in the semifinals (85:72), and Budućnost Voli in the final (79:75).
Among the large number of great players under the age of 14 in all teams of the final tournament in Nikšić, the youngest basketball player in the final four, Sava Mijatović, a 12-year-old from Slavija, managed to make it into the ideal five at the guard position.
He scored 13 points in the final, and his three-pointer in the game-changing game helped the team of coaches Aleksandar Veković, Saša Bulatović and Miki Vic bring the winner's cup to the stands of the club from Zlatica. Of course, with a spectacular performance by MVP player Petar Bulatović, who scored a combined 115 points in the two final games in Nikšić!
"We are overjoyed with the victory and the championship title, and I am overjoyed with the fact that I managed to meet the coach's demands. I don't normally play as a shooting guard, but as a playmaker, but the coaching staff decided that it would be too demanding and tiring for me to direct the team's game against rivals two years older. Bulatović, who also played in the "low post", and Kosta Krunić did that. They tried me out as a shooting guard during the first and last quarters of the semi-final with Nikšić Basket, and in the final against Buducnost I got the chance to play the entire match," said the 12-year-old Slavia basketball player.
Sava started playing basketball at the age of six in Joker, then Morača...
"At the international tournament of 16 clubs in Bologna, in competition with players from Armani, Virtus, Bayern, Fortitudo..., I won fifth place with Morača and also a place in the ideal five of the championship. I was also the MVP of the Montenegrin junior mini-basketball league. I moved to Slavia because of better working conditions, more training, but in addition, I do two individual training sessions a week with coach Veljko Racković. And of course, in my free time I watch videos of Kobe Bryant and Kyrie Irving's games, observe their movements, actions and the way they see basketball," explained Mijatović.
He changed clubs for basketball, not schools.
"I study at the "Pavle Rovinski" Elementary School and Slavia trains at the "dr Dragiša Ivanović" Elementary School. I have maximum understanding from the teaching staff at the school for my desire to play, and I am soon expecting the national team camp of the 2013 coach, Bojan Bakić. I am a year younger, but that is not a problem for me. I also participate in the Red Star camps, I have learned a lot from them in terms of team play, since they are mostly attended by great talents and there is no need to go solo, they try to solve situations individually," concluded Mjatović.
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