Another orange night in Zagreb - Cedevita beat MZT Skopje Aerodrom
In the opening match of Round 10, Cedevita defeated MZT Skopje Aerodrom in Zagreb.
Andrija Stipanovic (Photo: Cedevita/Marin Susic)
2017/18 ABA League Regular Season, Round 10, Saturday, 2.12.2017:
CEDEVITA - MZT Skopje Aerodrom 77:65 (24:8, 20:25, 18:22, 15:10)
Game recap: It seems that a two-week break in ABA League went down well for Cedevita, as the Orange crew made quite a powerful display in the match against MZT Skopje Aerodrom. As you can see in the final score, the boys from Zagreb wrote down a comfortable win, which was their 7th so far in the 2017/18 season. On the other side, MZT Skopje Aerodrom will stay at the bottom of the standings after suffering another defeat.
Key moments: MZT Skopje Aerodrom managed to reduce the margin significatly in the 2nd quarter as the gap between two teams was just 4 points – 37:33. However, then Cedevita made a quick 7:0 run and the halftime score was 44:33 for the home side. Exactly the same thing happened in the 3rd quarter. MZT Skopje Aerodrom have once again reduced the gap – 60:55, but Cedevita have answered back immediately with another 7:0 run – 67:55.
Man of the match: The visitors faced a big problem just before the game as their starting center Jure Lalić suffered an injury during a warm-up. And, MZT therefore stayed without the only player who could have stopped Cedevita’s big guy Andrija Stipanović.
Stipanović dominated the paint, while he finished the match with 15 points and with the overall index rating of 20.
Can’t trick the stats: Once again MZT Skopje Aerodrom made too many turnovers… This evening they had 14, while after most of them Cedevita have scored easy points.
