Partizan mt:s reached the Euroleague Basketball Nike International Junior Classification Tournament Belgrade-JCT title game
by overwhelming Mega Vizura 93-56 at Basket Land on Saturday night. Partizan is set to face archrivals Crvena Zvezda in the
final tomorrow at 14:45 CET. Earlier on, Vizura is facing Hemofarm Stada in the third place at 12:00 CET. Nikola Majic paced the winners with 20 points, 7 rebounds and 6 assists Nemanja Djordjevic and Nikola Jovanovic each added 11 while Mihajlo Andric had 10 for Partizan. Rade Zagorac led Vizura with 14 points.
Jovanovic led a 6-0 opening run that gave Partizan the lead for good. Three-pointers by Majic and Andric soon gave
their team a 15-6 lead. A three-pointer by Dusan Stankovic and a jumper by Nikola Tijanic brought Vizura within 15-11 but
Jovanovic, Majic and Mladen Djordjevic fueled a game-breaking 18-0 run that boosted Partizan's lead to 33-11 late in the
first quarter. Radicevic shined early in the second quarter and another triple by Andric made it a 27-point game, 45-18. A
layup by an unstoppable Majic gave Partizan a new game-high margin, 51-20 but Zagorac allowed Vizura to trim its deficit
to 53-27 at halftime. Nothing changed after the break, as Partizan got a 33-point lead, 70-37, at the end of the thirdquarter
and sat out its best players to avoid injury problems in the title game tomorrow.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Euroleague.net
|