Borac Mozzart stun Mega MIS on the road to keep the perfect score

2023/24 AdmiralBet ABA League Round 2, Friday, 6 October 2023:

Mega MIS – BORAC MOZZART 89:90 (25:24, 32:28, 20:23, 12:15)

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POST-GAME COMMENTS

Game recap: Borac Mozzart will enter this weekend as the top-placed team on the table! The Čačak crew have defeated Mega MIS on the road and have therefore scored their 2^nd consecutive win in the 2023/24 season. At this moment, Borac Mozzart are the only team with the score 2-0.

The red-and-whites have kept their perfect score after a real thriller in Ranko Žeravica Sports Hall in which they managed to defend their basket in the final minute of the game. With a bit of luck, to be fair, as Mega MIS players missed two great opportunities to take the lead, but the only thing that matters for the away team is that they stayed in front and seized the win.

Unlike Borac Mozzart who opened the new season with a 2-0 score, Mega MIS are still winless in the 2023/24 campaign as they suffered two narrow defeats.

Key moments: Borac Mozzart point guard Ronaldo Segu crowned his excellent performance today with the key 2+1 play right at the start of the last minute to put Borac Mozzart in front – 90:89. It turned out that Segu’s points were the last in this match as on the other side of the court Mega MIS missed their chances to win the match.

Firstly, Nikola Đuričić missed both free throws that would have put Mega MIS back in the lead, while in the final seconds of the game Timotej Malovec missed a long 2-pointer that would have won the match for the home team.

Man of the match: Ronaldo Segu was the top scorer and the man who scored that key and-1 lay-up in the final minute, yet the player with the highest index rating in the winning team tonight was Tylan Birts.

Birts scored 17 points, had 5 rebounds, 4 assists and 5 steals, while his overall index rating was 27.

Can’t trick the stats: Mega MIS had 16 turnovers in this match and some of them came in crucial moments of the match when this team might have got far in front of their opponents. The home team dropped double-digit lead in this match, mostly because of those turnovers.