KK Velika Gorica – Spišskí Rytieri 93:69 (18:20, 27:11, 18:12, 30:26)
Referees: Kadtkhode, Salomon, Nizamič
Attendance: 20
Venue: Gradska sportska dvorana Velika Gorica
Scorers – Velika Gorica: Kalajžič 16, Bakovič 15, Savič 13, Cinac 11, Cvitkovič and Mašič each 8, Kapusta 7, Konjevič and Sokol each 6 Uljarevič 3, Majič 0
Scorers – Rytieri: Baťka 20, Gavrilovič, Dressler and Stevanovič each 10, Dennis 8, Hlivák 5, Lužaič 3, Krajňák 0
The match started with big offensive energy. From the beginning the visitor team was led by Baťka, he got Spišskí Rytieri into a 20:18 lead after the first quarter. Velika Gorica responded with a 12:3 run in the second quarter, which got them into a double-digit lead. Slovak team managed to fight, but again, the home team with a good ending resulted in 45:31 after 20 minutes.
Velika Gorica was doing just fine on offense, they were rolling to get their first win in their first game in AAC. Before the last 10 minutes it was 63:43 for the Croatian team. Pretty much nothing changed in the fourth period, Spišskí Rytieri got only a good finish of the game, but the win got Velika Gorica.
Post-game quotes:
Josip Sesar, coach of Velika Gorica: ”We played this game really well, even though we didn’t have so many games to watch about our opponent in preparation for this first game in the league. During the match we tried to use weak points of team Spišskí Rytieri in their game and in the end we succeeded, winning the game. I am satisfied with how we played and want to congrats to the players.”
Mate Kalajžić, player of Velika Gorica: “First European game of the season, we started the game playing a slow game, but then we got the chemistry and saw that we could play with them like with every other team. Hopefully we will play like today in future games asa well.”
Štefan Svitek, coach of Spišskí Rytieri: ”Congratulations to the home team, they showed us how to play modern basketball. We played horrible except first and last quarter when everything was decided.We have to go back and learn from our mistakes from this game, practice harder and see what we can do better.”
