Mega Bemax won against Crvena Zvezda after four years; Borac, better than Tamiš (@KLSrbije, #KLSRB)

In the Round 7 of the Serbian Super League, Mega Bemax won 76 – 74 against Crvena Zvezda, Borac stayed at the first place in the group A (after its win against Tamiš with a score of 72 – 62) and Zlatibor won 99 – 73 against Mladost.

After seven rounds, Mladost has only one win, while Borac has 6 wins and one loss. The team from Čačak is at the first place, Zvezda is on the second one (with two losses) and in the next round these two clubs will play against each other in Pionir.

At the beginning, the match in Mega Factory Arena showed that the winner will be known after the last second. In the third quarter everyone thought that Crvena Zvezda will win because in one moment the Red and Whites were leading by 13, but Dejan Milojević’s team didn’t back down and at the end that payed off. Also, the win was more important due to the fact that seven important players didn’t play for Mega. The key of the victory in this match: Mega had 54 rebounds, and 22 were offensive rebounds.

Stefan Fundić was the best scorer in Mega Bemax. He scored 19 points (18 rebounds, 12 offensive) while Ognjen Čarapić and Predrag Samardžiski scored 14 each one. Luka Cerovina finished the game with 12.

In Dušan Alimpijević’s team, James Feldeine was the best, by far, with 29 points. Taylor Rochestie scored 13 and Filip Čović, 10.

After the match, coach Alimpijević said that his players weren’t in the game at all.

“It is not impossible to play, but it is impossible to win when one team have 54 rebounds. We have to be ashamed because we allowed 54 rebounds, and 22 in offense, and one player had 12 offensive rebounds. Mega deserved the win, I want to congratulate them. This wasn’t the first time that my players weren’t in the game, but I won’t comment anymore. I will talk with people from the club, so I won’t tell now anything else”, said Alimpijević after the game.

The Red and Whites captain, Branko Lazić, congratulated Mega players on the deserved victory.

On the other side, Dejan Milojević was satisfied with the victory.

“This is a huge win for us, especially because we played in this situation. More than a half of the team was absent. We played like men, tough game. This win isn’t important for the result or any kind of trophy but we gained self-confidence. We showed that we can play against the best team in league and that we can win against them. I hope we will play game by game as a team”, said Milojević.

Before the game against Zvezda, Borac won 72 – 62 against Tamiš and stayed on the first position in the group A. The last quarter decided the question of the winner when the team from Čačak finished that part of the game with a score of 21 – 13.

Marko Stojadinović was the only player with double-digit score in Borac. He finished the game with 21 points and 6 rebounds. In Tamiš, there were two players with more than 10 points: Dušan Knežević (12) and Ivan Smiljanić (11).

In the game Zlatibor – Mladost, the team from Serbian mountain won 99 – 73 and their best lead was 28 points.

Six players scored more than 13 points for Zlatibor and the best one was Svetozar Popović, with 18. He also added 11 assists. Nemanja Simović scored 17; Dragoslav Papić, 16; Bogdan Riznić, 15; and Radomir Marojević and Mladen Pantić finished the game with 14 points each one.

Vuk Malidžan was, with 20 points, the best in Mladost, while Vojin Svilar finished the game with 14.