The newcomers are not stopping - Third win in a row for Koper Primorska
The boys from Koper defeated Mornar at home court to extend their winning streak in the 2019/20 season.
Zan Mark Sisko (Photo: Koper Primorska/Ziga Mikeli)
ABA League Round 4, Saturday, 26.10.2019:
KOPER PRIMORSKA - Mornar 101:83 (26:26, 20:21, 28:17, 27:19)
Game recap: Koper Primorska firstly defeated Crvena zvezda mts in the 2019 ABA Super Cup, then they stunned Partizan NIS and Budućnost VOLI in the previous two rounds of the 2019/20 ABA League regular season, while this evening the boys from Koper defeated Mornar to increase their amazing winning streak.
Koper Primorska now has the overall score of 3-1 in the regular season, while this was their 3rd consecutuve win in the league. And be quite sure that they are not planning to stop there.
Key moments: While the first half was pretty close, which tou can tell by the halftime score – 46:47, the second half was competely one-sided. Koper Primorska outplayed Mornar in every single game element in those 20 minutes. The offense should have been the main power of Mornar in this game, however it turned out that they were beaten by their own weapon. Koper Primorska scored 55 points in the second half and therefore grabbed a well-deserved win.
Man of the match: Although Žan Mark Šiško recorded another double double (16 points & 11 assists) and although Marko Jagodić Kuridža was once again one of the best players on court (11 points, 8 rebounds), this time the MVP award goes to the hands of Lance Harris. The American player scored 22 points, had 7 rebounds, while his overall index rating was 30!
Can't rick the stats: Apart from scoring 101 points this evening, Koper Primorska also had 11 more rebounds and 10 more assists than their rivals. They were simply a lot better than Mornar this evening.
Stats
Players on court
| PRI | Min | PtsP | RebsR | AssA | StS | FoulF | ValV | |
| 0 | Holt S. | 20:50 | 14 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 14 |
| 6 | Čakarun M. | 17:22 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 7 |
| 20 | Hodžić A. | 28:29 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 11 |
| 21 | Jagodić Kuridža M. | 32:04 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 14 |
| 31 | Šiško Ž. | 34:12 | 16 | 5 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 23 |
| MOR | Min | PtsP | RebsR | AssA | StS | FoulF | ValV | |
| 0 | Pullen J. | 37:32 | 19 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| 5 | Needham D. | 35:10 | 15 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 |
| 13 | Raley-Ross B. | 23:11 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 |
| 25 | Markota D. | 24:37 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 16 |
| 51 | Bjelica M. | 30:13 | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 6 |
