BARAĆ: “CONGRATULATIONS TO THE PLAYERS ON THE WIN, BUT WE WILL HAVE SOMETHING TO TALK ABOUT TOMORROW”

Mega MIS basketball players defeated Metalac from Valjevo in the Mega Factory hall 88:77 (19:16, 26:16, 32:20, 11:22) in the match of the third round of the Serbian Super League. Marko Barać’s team failed to break away in the opening quarter, the guests held on well until the middle of the second, but then Malcolm Cazalon and Aleksa Uskoković started the team and enabled it to meet the big break with a double-digit surplus. Then, in the third part, they continued at the same pace and helped Mega erase all doubts about the winner after 30 minutes. All that Metalac managed to do in the last quarter was to soften the blow.

After two matches played (a postponed game of the first round with the Borac Mozart team), Mega MIS has a maximum score of 2-0, while Metalac is at 0-2. So far, Vojvodina has one win and one loss each, while Borac still needs to step on the field in the Super League due to obligations in the play-off for survival in the ABA league.

Coach Marko Barać gave his impressions at the press conference after the match:

– I congratulate the players on the victory, we are entering the Super League with a changed backcourt line-up, and it will undoubtedly take some time for things to settle down, for the roles to be redistributed, and for the creation in the game to be much better than tonight. On that side, I can understand the poor reading of the game, but to go down in the fourth quarter, that kind of relaxation can’t happen again. This type of rebound control, or rather the absence of it, must not be repeated, and it is something that we will certainly have to discuss and work on tomorrow morning. I congratulate the guests for showing great desire; I wish them good luck in the continuation of the championship,

Barać said.

Aleksa Uskoković also spoke about the meeting:

– The most important thing is that we won the game. From start to finish, we couldn’t find our rhythm even though we ran well at times and played good defense, but we didn’t manage to hit some three-point shots, which gave them a chance to run… We will continue to work to correct that and to be a little more precise. Let’s move on; we know what our goal is,

Uskoković pointed out .

Mega MIS continues the fight in the Super League next week, and the fourth round meeting with the Borac Mozart team is scheduled for Wednesday, May 17, from 6:00 pm in the Mega Factory hall.

Photo: Mega MIS/Ivica Veselinov