In Laktaši to confirm the spot in the semi finals
Cedevita Olimpija is just one more victory away from the semi-finals of the regional league. The Ljubljana Dragons will try to record the success that would secure them a place among the best four teams of the competition on Wednesday at 19.00 in Laktaši, where they will face Igokea m: tel in the second match … Continued
Cedevita Olimpija is just one more victory away from the semi-finals of the regional league. The Ljubljana Dragons will try to record the success that would secure them a place among the best four teams of the competition on Wednesday at 19.00 in Laktaši, where they will face Igokea m: tel in the second match of the first round of the playoffs.
The Cedevita Olimpija players will travel to the away game on Tuesday for the first time in the playoffs of any international competition since 2001. Let us recall that on February 22 2001, the then Union Olimpija played the then Kinder in Bologna in the quarterfinals of the elite Euroleague. In the regional competition, the teams decided the winner in the final tournaments until the end of the 2013/14 season, and from the 2014/15 season onwards, the club from Ljubljana never participated in the playoffs until the 2021/22 season. In the playoffs of the 7DAYS EuroCup in the 2021/22 season, Cedevita Olimpija played two matches, the round of 16 and the quarterfinals, played on the home floor.
Of course, it is necessary to take into account the fact that Zagreb’s Cedevita last participated in the playoffs of the regional league in the 2018/19 season, before the merger of clubs from the Slovenian and Croatian capitals and the creation of Cedevita Olimpija.
The team of head coach Jurica Golemac is going to Laktaši with a 1-0 lead in the first round of the playoffs against Igokea m: tel, thus the Ljubljana team is only one victory away from breaking into the semifinals of the regional league, where Belgrade’s Crvena zvezda is already waiting for its rival. mts.
The Wednesday’s game in the Laktaši Sports Hall will start at 19.00, and it will be possible to watch it live on Arena Sport 1.
In the first match on Saturday in the Tivoli Hall, the Cedevita Olimpija players showed their team game, and on the wings of an excellent shooting, they recorded a victory with the result 93:79. The Dragons took the lead for the first time after two minutes of play. At that time, Edo Murić scored three points. A fairly even sequel followed. The Dragons led most of the time, to a break with a maximum of nine points of advantage.
They stepped on the gas in the third quarter when they took the lead for the first time with a double-digit advantage. Before the last ten minutes of the game, they had eight points in stock, which they not only defended until the end, but also increased. Four Cedevita Olympia basketball players scored double-digit points, the most, 21, was scored by Jacob Pullen. In the Igokea m:tel jersey, Dalibor Ilić scored 19 points with 12 collected rebounds.
ABA LEAGUE, PLAYOFFS
ROUND 1, GAME 2
Laktaši Sports Hall (Laktaši, Bosnia and Herzegovina), Wednesday, May 4, at 19.00:
IGOKEA M:TEL – CEDEVITA OLIMPIJA [0:1]*
*Series wins. If necessary, Game 3 will be played on Sunday, May 8, in Ljubljana.
Already played:
PRELIMINARY ROUND, GAME 1
Tivoli Sports Hall (Ljubljana, Slovenia), Saturday, April 30:
CEDEVITA OLIMPIJA – IGOKEA M:TEL 93:79 (29:26, 25:21, 19:18, 20:14)
Cedevita Olimpija: Pullen 21 (6 assists), Ferrell 17, Ejim 9 (11 rebounds, 5 assists), Duščak, Murić 11 (6 rebounds), Auguste 13, Hodžić, Ščuka, Omić 4 (10 rebounds), Dragić 18, Radovanović, Mulalić.
