Timisoara finally won, OKK Beograd with second lost in a row

BC Timisoara played an excellent game against OKK Beograd in Sala Constatine Jude tonight and deservedly took their first ever victory in EUROHOLD Balkan League – 85:67. This was OKK’s second lost in a row this season, as they were outplayed by Galil Gilboa in the first game. The hosts from Romania finally managed to won a game, as they lost their first two clashes in the very last seconds. On the other side OKK probably will continue to have difficulties in their road games, as it is not the first time that the Serbians couldn’t showed their best away from Belgrade. They showed a lot of problems again zone defence and again lost the battle uder the basket, as the rebounds were one of the things that decide the game in the favour of Predrag Badnjarevic’s squad. OKK were also affraid to test their opponents with a lon range shots, as they made only 1 three-pointer from 5 attempts. On the other side Timisoara made 6 successful shots behind the line from 18 attempts.

 

 

                The game started better for Timisoara, as the Predrag Badnjarevic’s squad managed to take  the lead in the first minutes - after a jump-shot of the American forward Dominique Archie, the score was set to 8:2, 7:42 before the end of the first period. OKK tried to start to play a little bit agressive, but Timisoata slowly continuing to build their lead. Until the end of the quarter, the hosts totally dominated the game, going up by 8 points – 27:19. In the second period, Romanian squad continued with their good performance, and after a lay-up by Sarovic, they were up by 11 points in the 14th minute of the game – 35:24. The guest from Belgrade quickly took the game in their hands, making a 11:2 series in only 3 minutes. In the remaining time, both teams exchanged several points, to set the score to 43:40 in favour of BC Timisoara. During the first half the hosts were the more active team, but they couldn’t show their dominance, as they made 16 successful shots from 34 attempts, while OKK were more precise and recorded a very
high field goal percentage - 15 shots from 25 attempts. Timisoara have a big advantage in the rebounds – 19 against only 11 for OKK.

 

                 OKK’s Luca Drca opened the thrid period with a jump shot, followed by a lay-up of Stanoje Knezevic, which gave to OKK their first lead in the game – 43:44. The interesting thing was that in the next 6 minutes, the guests scored only 4
points, while Timisoara managed to made 14 for 57:48. After 30 minutes of play the score was 66:53 for Timisoara, as in almost the whole period, they controled the game and finally the difference climbed to double digits. The interesting was that hosts missed 7 free-throws in this quarter. In the decisive last period Timisoara started very motivated, seeing that their opponents are even capitulated and after  19:14 the final score was set to 85:67.  Almost the whole game on the court there is only one team – the home side BC Timisoara. The management of the team can be disappointed, as if they didn’t lost their first two games in the decisive last seconds, now the could be on perfect 3:0 record.

 

                 206cm tall Robert Sarovic was the most efficient player on the court in Sala Constantin Jude tonight, as he nailed 24 points, 8 rebounds and 4 assists for an index of 32. Dominique Archie was simply great also, as he was perfect for 2 points - 11/11. scoring 24 points. Ivan Siriscevic added 15 points and 4 rebounds fro the winners.

                 Stanoje Knezevic was OKK′s best scorer with 15 points, while Filip Sepa comes with 14 points and 3 rebounds from the bench. Experienced forward Slavko Stefanovic finished the game with 13 points and 4 boards.