Igokea win the thriller against Cibona

Monday, 08. October 2018 at 17:58

Filip Adamović scored the crucial 2-pointer in the final seconds and brought the big away win for the squad from Aleksandrovac.

Tomislav Zubcic (Photo: Cibona/Z. Baksaj, D. Vranar, G. Lausic)

ABA League Round 2, Monday, 8.10.2018:

Cibona - IGOKEA 84:86 (23:21, 27:28, 22:18, 12:19)

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Game recap: We have just witnessed another thriller in ABA League! Igokea defeated Cibona on the road thanks to a late 2-pointer scored by Filip Adamović.

Interesting enough, Igokea played a similar game in the opening round of the new season when they suffered a narrow defeat against Mega Bemax (79:80), but now they were the ones who had more concentration in the last moments.

Igokea have therefore scored their first win in the new season, while Cibona are still winless in the 2018/19 ABA League campaign.

Key moments: The score was all tied (84:84), with 10 seconds remaining on the game clock, while Igokea's head coach Nenad Trajković called for a time-out. The instructions were quite clear - give the ball to Filip Adamović and let him play 1-on-1 with Karlo Uljarević. And that plan worked perfectly. Adamović ran past Uljarević and then scored a pretty tricky driving lay-up - 86:84. Cibona were out of time-outs, so they had to start the play from their half of the court. They managed to get the ball on the other side of the court in 4 seconds and Igor Marić even had a chance to win this match for Cibona, but he missed a 3-pointer at the buzzer.

Man of the match: Sava Lešić made a fantastic performance this evening. Igokea's big guy finished the match with 19 points and 15 rebounds, while his overall index rating was 30.

Can't trick the stats: That one shot made difference. Nothing else.

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