Euroins Cherno More - Ferpsed Rabotnicki (preview)
Corey McIntosh is the main player bulgarians
Bulgarian side Euroins Cherno More had to win the game in Brasov versus CSU Cuadripol in order to get to the next round. Team from Varna won by two points on Julian Radionov last second shot to eliminate Romanians and in the same time to reach quarterfinal stage. Bulgarians even had a chance to get above Macedonian champions Feni Industries at the standing in Group A of the league. However they needed 14 points win but managed only 9 at the end. That put them at the third place and set up a game against Fersped Rabotnicki in the quarterfinals.
Since the arriving of coach Predrag Badnjarevic Euroins Cherno More have only victories no matter in which competition they play – Eurohold Balkan League, local championships or Cup of Bulgaria. So far he is able to put all pieces at the right place and team from Varna is playing much better and organized basketball. Last Saturday Euroins Cherno More won against Yambol in Bulgarian league and continue to fight for better position before the end of regular season in that competition.
Corey McIntosh is the leading scorer of this year competition with 25.6 points per game. He also had 4.6 assists and 2.6 rebounds in 36.5 minutes, something to proved the management of Euroins Cherno More made the right choice when they hired him in the summer.
Brazilian center Atila Santos had three double doubles in his first four games of the competition. At the end of regular season he finished strong with 22 points in the win over Feni Industries in Varna last week. Santos averaged 14.0 points and 9.2 rebounds per game.
Zeljko Bojovic with his 10.6 points per contest in BIBL is still trying to find his best in Varna. Serbian was selected by Euroins Cherno More before the season started but his games are going through lot of up and downs so far. The situation looks much better for him now as Bojovic fit very good in system of the new coach.
American Bryce Sheldon and Serbian with greek passport Ntousan Koutsopoulos arrived in the midseason to give more offensive options to the coach Badnjarevic. Sheldon is familiar with place like Varna as he was part of the roster from last year. It ttok him only three games to get among the best scorers in the team. He averaged 9.3 points spending 32.3 minutes on the court every each one of them.
Koutsopoulos moved to Varna from other rival in Group A of the league – Swisslion Takovo. 211 cm tall center played 4 games in the league so far but 2 of them were for team from Vrsac. Koutsopoulos scored 7.2 points in all those games.
Two young prospects in the team – Nikolay Kolev (22.2 minutes per game) and Aleksandar Yanev (19.3 minutes per game) are just proving the club is continue to make and develop very good and talented players.
Fersped Rabotnicki ended the regular season with three games in a week at home. They needed three victories to win Group B but unfortunately for coach Marin Dokuzovski they lost against Rilski Sportist. Wins in other two (versus Levski and Mega Hypo Leasing) were enough for second place and home court in rematch in quarterfinal game. During the weekend Fersped Rabotnicki beat Vardar 93-63 and warmed up for the visit in Varna tomorrow night.
Four Macedonian National team players are the best team scorers in the team in Eurohold Balkan League. They all average in double digits with Dime Tasovski leading them with 14.8 points per game. Other guard Ognen Stojanovski is with 13.4, big guy Toni Simic with 12.9 and Bojan Trajkovski with 10.4 points in each one.
Fersped Rabotnicki also added recently couple players – Danilo Mitrovic and Turkish Bora Pacun. Mitrovic played 3 games with average of 2.7 points while Pacun made his debut las week versus Mega Hypo Leasing and scored 5 points for 13 minutes on the court.
Macedonians from Fersped Rabotnicki scored most 3-pointers in both groups of Eurohold Balkan League. They had success 73 times behind the arc from 196 attempted shots or 37.2 %. Once they get going from long distance is very hard to stop them.
The players of coach Dokuzovski also lead in blocking shots per game – 3.0 per game with Toni Simic having 13 blocks overall in all 8 games.
Game is scheduled for Wednesday night at 18.00 o’clock in Culture and Sports of Palace in Varna. Rematch week later in Skopje. Winner from this contest will meet either Mega Hypo Leasing or Swisslion Takovo clash that start next week.
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